Too much to know : managing scholarly information before the modern age / Ann M. Blair.

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010], ©2010.

xv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Information management in comparative perspective -- Note-taking as information management -- Reference genres and their finding devices -- Compilers, their motivations and methods -- The impact of early printed reference books.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-379) and index.