You Could Look It Up (77 page)

5.
  Stockwell,
History of Information Storage
, p. 140.

6.
  See Burke,
Social History of Knowledge
, pp. 92–93.

7.
  Miller,
Prince of Librarians
, p. 14.

8.
  Miller,
Prince of Librarians
, p. 143.

9.
  Cutter, “New Catalogue of Harvard College Library,” p. 104.

10.
  Panizzi,
Catalogue
, 1:v.

11.
  Panizzi,
Catalogue
, 1:vi.

12.
  Panizzi,
Catalogue
, 1:vi.

13.
  Panizzi,
Catalogue
, 1:vii.

14.
  The best accounts are McCrimmon,
Power, Politics, and Print
, and Chaplin,
GK
.

15.
  Alston and Jannetta,
Bibliography
, p. 20.

16.
  Bakewell,
Manual of Cataloguing Practice
, p. 19.

17.
  Stockwell,
History of Information Storage and Retrieval
, p. 144.

18.
  Katz,
Cuneiform to Computer
, p. 311.

19.
  Katz,
Cuneiform to Computer
, p. 311.

20.
  See Burke,
Social History of Knowledge
, p. 93.

21.
  See Cutter, “New Catalogue,” p. 97.

22.
  Sonderland, review of
National Union Catalog
, p. 271.

23.
  Hoyle, “Superlatives and Compromises,” p. 235.

24.
  An up-to-the-minute tally of WorldCat’s holdings is at
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/watch-worldcat-grow.en.html
.

25.
  See DeZelar-Tiedman, “Proportion of
NUC
Pre-56 Titles.”

26.
  Cutter, “New Catalogue,” p. 123.

27.
  John Overholt (@john_overholt), Twitter posts, July 29, 2014.

28.
  Cutter, “New Catalogue,” p. 129.

CHAPTER 21
½: INDEX LEARNING

1.
  Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

2.
  Witty, “Early Indexing Techniques,” p. 141.

3.
  Pope,
Dunciad
, 1.277–80.

4.
  
Grub Street Journal
no. 322 (February 26, 1735/36).

5.
  Richardson,
Correspondence
, 2:229.

6.
  Tankard, “Reading Lists,” p. 349.

7.
  Plato,
Phaedrus
, in
Works
, 1:610.

CHAPTER 22
: THE GOOD LIFE

1.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 12.

2.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 23.

3.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 33.

4.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 133.

5.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 44.

6.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 156.

7.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 254.

8.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 205.

9.
  Grove,
Dictionary of Music and Musicians
, 1:v.

10.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 228.

11.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 285.

12.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, p. 293.

13.
  Graves,
Life & Letters
, pp. 282, 292.

14.
  Post, “How I Came,” p. 64.

15.
  Post, “How I Came,” p. 4.

16.
  Post, “How I Came,” pp. 4, 56.

17.
  Post,
Etiquette
, pp. xiii–xiv.

18.
  Post,
Etiquette
, pp. 1, 71, 154, 506.

19.
  Post,
Etiquette
, p. 4.

20.
  Post,
Etiquette
, pp. 6, 7.

21.
  Post,
Etiquette
, pp. 58, 122, 194, 567, 544, 144.

22.
  Post,
Etiquette
, pp. 152–53, 20, 18–19.

23.
  Post,
Etiquette
, p. 34.

24.
  “Emily Price Post,” in
Encyclopedia of World Biography
.

25.
  Poole,
English Parnassus
, sig. a7
v
–a8
r
.

CHAPTER 22
½: SOME UNLIKELY REFERENCE BOOKS

1.
  Stavans,
Dictionary Days
, p. 63.

CHAPTER 23
: PRESUMED PURITY

1.
  Vitz,
Sigmund Freud’s Christian Unconscious
, p. 112.

2.
  Merck,
Merck’s Index
, p. iii.

3.
  Merck,
Merck’s Index
, pp. iii–iv, vii–viii.

4.
  Merck,
Merck’s Index
, p. iv.

5.
  
The American Monthly Microscopical Journal
10 (April 1889): 94.

6.
  Merck,
Merck’s Index
, p. v.

7.
  Merck,
Merck’s Index
, p. vi.

8.
  
Annals of Gynecology and Pediatry 3
(1890): 126.

9.
  Merck,
Merck’s Manual
, p. 5.

10.
  Grotzinger, review of
Merck Index
.

11.
  Chemical Rubber Company,
Handbook
, p. 3.

12.
  Chemical Rubber Company,
Handbook
, p. 8.

13.
  Chemical Rubber Company,
Handbook
, p. 3.

14.
  Davis and Schmidt,
Guide to Information Sources
, p. 88.

15.
  Powell,
Handbooks and Tables
.

16.
  Thorndike, “L’Encyclopédie and the History of Science,” p. 361.

CHAPTER 23
½: AT NO EXTRA COST!

1.
  Dille, “The
Dictionary
in Abstract,” p. 198.

2.
  Murray,
Caught in the Web of Words
, p. 251.

3.
  See Béjoint,
Lexicography of English
, p. 2.

4.
  Watts, “
Encyclopédie Méthodique
,” p. 356.

5.
  Oldenburg, “Consummate Consumer.”

6.
  Louise Cook, Associated Press story, May 26, 1978; see also Stockwell,
History of Information Storage and Retrieval
p. 133.

7.
  Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 303.

8.
  Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 300.

9.
  Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 306.

10.
  Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 303.

11.
  Oldenburg, “Consummate Consumer.”

12.
  LaBelle, “Salesman Must Say.”

13.
  Berger, “What’s New in Encyclopedias.”

14.
  “Out of Bounds.”

CHAPTER 24
: FULL AND AUTHORITATIVE INFORMATION

1.
  Kafker, “William Smellie’s Edition,” p. 172.

2.
  
Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers
, p. iii.

3.
  “J. K.,” “Catholics and the New ‘Encyclopedia Britannica,’ ” pp. 202–3; Keogil, “‘Encyclopedia Britannica’ and the History of the Church,” pp. 377, 381.

4.
  
Catholic Encyclopedia
, 1:v.

5.
  
Catholic Encyclopedia
, 1:v–vi.

6.
  
Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers
, p. iv.

7.
  Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 29.

8.
  Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 18.

9.
  Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” pp. 23–24.

10.
  Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 28.

11.
  Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 31.

12.
  Einbinder,
Myth of the Britannica
, p. 19.

13.
  Hogg, “Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia,” p. 53.

14.
  Ko
ł
akowski,
Main Currents
, p. 903.

15.
  “Big Red Book.”

16.
  Stockwell,
History of Information Storage and Retrieval
, p. 126.

17.
  Hirsch, “Culture and Literacy,” pp. 36, 45.

CHAPTER 24
½: UNPERSONS

1.
  See Weinrich,
Lethe
, p. 33, and Hedrick,
History and Silence
, pp. 94–95.

2.
  Weinrich,
Lethe
, p. 33.

3.
  Knight,
Beria
, p. 3.

4.
  Hedrick,
History and Silence
, p. 92.

CHAPTER 25
: NOTHING SPECIAL

1.
  Newman,
Lounger’s Common-place Book
, 1:iii.

2.
  Olmsted,
Getting into Guinness
, p. 36.

3.
  Watson, “World’s Unlikeliest Bestseller.”

4.
  Olmsted,
Getting into Guinness
, p. 46.

5.
  Olmsted,
Getting into Guinness
, p. 47.

6.
  Whittington, “Unbeatable,” p. 139.

7.
  
http://www.book-of-records.info/1950s.html
.

8.
  See Olmsted,
Getting into Guinness
, p. 34.

9.
  Cavendish, “Publication of the
Guinness Book
.”

10.
  Hanson, “Harnessing the Guinness Effect,” p. 165.

11.
  Watson, “World’s Unlikeliest Bestseller.”

12.
  Hanson, “Harnessing the Guinness Effect,” p. 165.

13.
  Watson, “World’s Unlikeliest Bestseller.”

14.
  
Schott’s Original Miscellany
, p. 5.

15.
  McCrum, “God Bless You,” p. 19.

16.
  Anon., review of
Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany
.

17.
  Luce, “Vital Irrelevance.”

18.
  Gutin, “How Big Is a D-Cup?”

EPILOGUE: THE WORLD’S INFORMATION

1.
  See Maritain,
Dream of Descartes
, pp. 13–26.

2.
  Cottingham,
Cambridge Companion
, p. 31.

3.
  Yeo,
Encyclopaedic Visions
, p. 4.

4.
  Campbell and Pryce,
Library
, p. 39.

5.
  See Collison,
Encyclopaedias
, p. 2.

6.
  Stockwell,
History of Information Storage and Retrieval
, p. 21.

7.
  Burke,
Social History of Knowledge
, p. 175.

8.
  Yeo, “Lost Encyclopedias,” p. 47.

9.
  Wells,
World Brain
, p. 11.

10.
  Smith,
Towards a Living Encyclopædia
, p. 28.

11.
  See Yeo, “Lost Encyclopedias,” p. 62.

12.
  Adams,
Hitchhiker’s Guide
, p. 7.

13.
  Lih,
Wikipedia Revolution
, p. xv.

14.
  Lih,
Wikipedia Revolution
, p. 14.

15.
  Lih,
Wikipedia Revolution
, p. 112.

16.
  Schiff, “Know It All.”

17.
  Baker, “Google’s Earth.”

18.
  Baker, “Charms of Wikipedia.”

19.
  Jaschick, “Stand against Wikipedia.”

20.
  Dyson, “How We Know,” p. 10.

INDEX

“The A.B.C.” (Le Maire),
here

Académie Française,
here
,
here
,
here