As I See It: Operating on Overload
May 21, 2007 Victor Rozek
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If the name Conrad Gesner is unfamiliar, it’s probably because you’re either not a librarian or weren’t around in the 16th century when Gesner walked the earth. Born in Switzerland, Gesner was a naturalist and a scholar, but he is known to librarians as the creator of the bibliography. And what an ambitious accomplishment it was! Known as the Bibliotheca universalis, it was written in three languages–Greek, Latin, and Hebrew–and it listed all of the writers who had ever lived and the titles of all their works. No surprise then that Gesner was also among the first to have |
