the pinakes » welcome http://thepinakes.com from papyrus to pdf Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:59:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 © dsronline@gmail.com () dsronline@gmail.com() from papyrus to pdf dsronline@gmail.com No no http://thepinakes.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg the pinakes http://thepinakes.com 144 144 WELCOME TO THE PINAKES http://thepinakes.com/2009/01/hello-world-2/ http://thepinakes.com/2009/01/hello-world-2/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:07:27 +0000 Daniel Ransom http://senna.sjsu.edu/dfaires/dransom/wordpress/?p=1 Welcome to The Pinakes, a discussion of library technology, new and old, and how the two might meet. Your host is a second-year Masters Candidate in Library and Information Science with a passion for history, rare books and modern technology.

This site is named for the first known library catalog. The pinakes was the work of Callimachus of Cyrene, a scholar, poet and librarian of the third century BCE.  Callimachus oversaw the famed Great Library of Alexandria at a time it housed all the known knowledge of the world. He is considered by many to be the father of bibliography.

The original pinakes was an index of all the world’s information, divided into eleven categories. I will use this blog as a tool for discovering, describing and indexing the latest tools for information-sharing — how many categories of technology will we discover? From papyrus to codex to pdf — it’s all information.

Your comments, thoughts and feedback are very welcome here.

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