Resources: Reviews, Publicity, Links, News, and Events
Timeline
- Jeremy Norman's Timeline of History of Information: More than 4,000 entries, organized with the help of a gigantic timeline from 3.8 mya to 2022.
Book Series
- Information Cultures Series at John Hopkins University Press, ed. by Ann Blair, Tony Grafton, Earle Havens. Brief Description.
- "Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History", published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg, edited by Markus Friedrich, Christine von Örtzen, and Vera Keller.
Recent Handbooks
- Timon Beyes, Robin Holt, and Claus Pias, eds. (2020) The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
- Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, Anthony Grafton, and Glenn W. Most, eds. (2020) Impagination: Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication: Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West. Boston: De Gruyter.
- Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk, eds. (May 2021) Literary Information in China. Columbia University Press.
- Eric Hayot, Anatoly Detwyler, Lea Pao, eds. (Sept 2021) Information: A Reader. Columbia University Press.
- Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel, eds. (Jan 2021) Information: Keywords. Columbia University Press.
- Daniel Midena, Richard Yeo, eds. ‘Towards a history of the questionnaire’, Intellectual History Review, vol. 32, no.3 (2022), pp. 503-644.
News
Kathleen Adamson, “Information, the book: Editors’ efforts have borne excellent fruit” The Charity Report. June 28 2021. https://www.thecharityreport.com/literary-circle/information-the-book-e…
James W. Cortada, review in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 52, Number 2, Autumn 2021, pp. 265-267 https://muse-jhu-edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/article/803845/pdf
Nick J Enfield, "Too much information. The growth and development of social technologies" (Book review), in TLS (The Times Literary Supplement), 6224 (July 15, 2022), https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/information-ann-blair-book-review-n-j-enfield/
Lena Hernandez, “Information: A Historical Companion Book Review.” School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, https://doi.org/10.31979/2575-2499.120104.
Jodi Kearns, review in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022, Vol.73 (3), p.485-488 https://asistdl-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/p…
Marc Kosciejew, in Technology and Culture, 2021, Vol.62 (4), p.1276-1277 https://muse-jhu-edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/article/819796/pdf
Ron McColl, review in College & research libraries, 2022, Vol.83 (2), p.343 https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/25353/33218
Михаил Сергеев, "История информации — по хронологии, темам и алфавиту." https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/182_nlo_… (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 2023. Vol. 4 (182)) (Author: Mikhail Sergeev)
Toni Weller, “Information. A Historical Companion, Edited by Ann Blair and Others.” Library & Information History, vol. 37, no. 2, Edinburgh University Press, 2021, pp. 168–69, https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2021.0065.
Anthony Grafton, “Sherlock Holmes and the history of information.” Princeton University Press, January 28 2021. https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/sherlock-holmes-and-the-history-of-information
Ann Blair, “The Multitude of Books” Lapham’s Quarterly, Jan 27 2021. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/multitude-books (this got onto hacker news on Jan 30 2021)