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The Informed Life
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The Evolution of Publishing Technology and Information Classification Systems
400 years after Gutenberg, printing underwent little change until it became industrialized and mechanized. This revolutionized the process and led to a massive amount of published information, causing concern in the scholarly community on how to manage it. Figures like Paul Lutlay, Rankinathan, Charles Cutter, and Melville Dewey played a role in the development of modern library cataloging techniques.
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