Touati, L'armoire a sagesse.
Bayard Dodge, The Fihrist ofal-Nadim: A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970).
D. Mallet, "La bibliotheque d'Avicenne," in Studia Islamica, Vol. 83, 1996. Quoted in Touati, L'armoire a sagesse.
Suetonius, "Julius Caesar," in The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves, rev. ed. (London: Penguin, 1989).
Lionel Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001).
T. Birt, Die Buchrolle in der Kunst (Leipzig, 1907).
Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M.A. F.R.S., ed. Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A. (19 December, 1666), (London: George Bell & Sons, 1899).
Melvil Dewey, "Decimal Classification Beginning," in Library Journal45 (2/15/20). Quoted in Wayne A. Wiegand, Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (Chicago and London: American Library Association, 1996).
The latest revision of Dewey's system, the XXI edition of 1998, has altered some of these classifications, so that now, while 200 is still attributed to Religion and 260 to Christian theology, 264 is reserved for Public Worship, and God can be found under three different headings: 211 (Concepts of God), 212 (Existence and Attributes) and 231 (Trinity and Divine Nature). See Lois Mai Chan, John P. Comaromi, Mohinder P. Satija, Classification decimale de Dewey: guide pratique (Montreaclass="underline" Editions ASTED, 1995).
Dewey's reading notebook entries, quoted in Wiegand, Irrepressible Reformer.
Wiegand, Irrepressible Reformer.
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend.
Dewey's reading notebook entries, quoted in Wiegand, Irrepressible Reformer.
The Spanish method of granting priority to the father's surname, e.g., Garda, doesn't work if the author is known by his second surname.
Henry Green, Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait (London: The Hogarth Press, 1940).
the library as space
Jules Verne, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Paris: Hetzel, 1870). This same passage, in a similar context, is quoted by Perec in Penser/Classer. I am grateful to Cyril de Pins for pointing it out to me.
Belanger, Lunacy and the Arrangement ofBooks.
A.N.L. Munby, Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors: An Essay (London: privately printed, 1948); quoted in Belanger, Lunacy and the Arrangement ofBooks.
Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno (1889), in The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (London: The Nonesuch Press, 1922).
Emanuele Tesauro, Ilcannocchiale aristotelico (1670) (Savigliano: Editrice artistica Piemontese, 2000).
Anthony Grafton, "Une bibliotheque humaniste: Ferrare," in Le pouvoir des bibliotheques: La memoire des livres en Occident, under the direction of Marc Baratin and Christian Jacob (Paris: Albin Michel,
i996).
Quoted in Grafton, "Une bibliotheque humaniste: Ferrare." 74.Ibid.
Robert D. McFadden, "Recluse buried by paper avalanche," in The International Herald Tribune (Paris, 31 December, 2003).
See Nicholson Baker, "The Author vs. the Library," The New Yorker (New York, 14 October, 1996).
Goodrum & Dalrymple, Guide to the Library of Congress.
Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (New York: Random House, 2001).
Quoted in Baker, Double Fold, p. 257.
Robin McKie and Vanessa Thorpe, "Digital Domesday Book," in The Observer (London, 3 March, 2002).
Katie Hafner, "Memories on Computers May Be Lost to Time," in The International Herald Tribune (Paris, 28 November, 2004).
Robert F. Worth, "Collecting the world's books online," in The International Herald Tribune (Paris, 1—2 March, 2003).
The New York Times (14 December, 2004).
Genesis 11:1—9.
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, I:i (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964).
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (London: Dent, 1872).
Gabriel Naude, Advis pour dresser une bibliotheque, seconde edition revue corrigee & augmentee (Paris: Chez Rolet le Duc, 1644).
Marie-Catherine Rey, "Figurer l'etre des hommes," in Visions du futur: Une histoire despeurs et des espoirs de l'humanite (Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2000).
Quoted in P.N. Furbank, Diderot (London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1992).
Jean-Francois Marmontel, in his Memoirs, quoted in Furbank, Diderot.
"Le but de l' Encyclopedie est de rassembler les connaissances eparses sur la surface de la terre; d'en exposer le systeme general aux hommes qui viendront apres nous, afin que les travaux des sieclespasses n'aientpas ete des travaux inutilespour les siecles a venir. . . . Que
l' Encyclopedie devienne un sanctuaire ou les connaissances des hommes soient a l'abri des temps et des revolutions." Denis Diderot, in "Encyclopedie," in D. Diderot et Jean d'Alembert, L'Encyclopedie,
ou, Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers (Paris, 1751—72).
Guillaume Grivel, L'lsle inconnue, ou Memoires du chevalier de Gastines. Recueillis etpubliespar M. Grivel, des Academies de Dijon, de La Rochelle, de Rouen, de la Societe Philosophique de Philadelphie etc. (Paris: Moutard, 1783-87).
Quoted in Furbank, Diderot.
Ibid.
Rebecca Solnit, Motion Studies: Time, Space andEadweard Muybridge (London: Bloomsbury, 2003).
Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy ofSeneca: Essays and Letters, translated by and with an introduction by Moses Hadas (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, i958).
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pecuchet (Paris: Mercure de France,
i923).
Jorge Luis Borges, "La biblioteca total," in Sur (Buenos Aires, August 1939), later developed as "La Biblioteca de Babel," in Ficciones (Buenos Aires: Sur, 1944).
Idem, Elcongreso (Buenos Aires: El Archibrazo, 1971).
the library as power
Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Rahman al-'Uthmani, Idah al-ta'rif bi- ba'd fada'ilal-'ilm al-sharif, Princeton University Library, Yahuda Ms. No. 4293, quoted in Jonathan Berkey, The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A Social History of Islamic Education (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, i992).
Quoted in Hipolito Escolar, Historia de las bibliotecas (Madrid: Fundacion German Sanchez Ruiperez, 1985).
Fritz Milkau, Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft, ed. Georg Leyh (Wiesbaden: G. Harrassowitz, 1952).
Emile Zola, L'assommoir.
Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Le passage (Paris: Laffont, 1994).
Juan Domingo Peron, "Discurso del Presidente de la Nacion Argentina General Juan Peron pronunciado en la Academia Argentina de Letras con motivo del Dfa de la Raza y como homenaje en memoria de Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra en el cuarto centenario de su nacimiento" (Buenos Aires, 12 October, 1947).