# Resources: Reviews, Publicity, Links, News, and Events ![Information Cloud, created by Sara Mansutti](/sites/g/files/omnuum9531/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/infohist/files/download_02.png?h=42df7ffb&itok=cAQ_gQYu) ### Links expand\_more ### Timeline - [Jeremy Norman's Timeline of History of Information](https://historyofinformation.com/): 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](https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/series/information-cultures), ed. by Ann Blair, Tony Grafton, Earle Havens. [Brief Description](/news/information-cultures-series-john-hopkins-university-press). - "Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History", published by [De Gruyter Oldenbourg](https://www.degruyter.com/serial/cpk-b/html?lang=en#overview), 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](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-media-technology-and-organization-studies-9780198809913?cc=us&lang=en&). - 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](https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110698756/html). - Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk, eds. (May 2021) *Literary Information in China.* [Columbia University Press.](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cup.columbia.edu_book_literary-2Dinformation-2Din-2Dchina_9780231195522-23-3A-7E-3Atext-3DLiterary-2520Information-2520in-2520China-2520is-2Cinformatic-2520practices-2520shape-2520literary-2520tradition.&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=HKPxmUdnYUKWMx8pouzTcDfH7LlrI74AKC20L52AMiE&m=SwVTRzBQg8Nj63eo3vXMqSx2VMMvna-dDNNvCeSY_Fo&s=vBS26vkO7IscAh4hP-FcS5n9Z5gVO0SnajnxwZz82G8&e=) - Eric Hayot, Anatoly Detwyler, Lea Pao, eds. (Sept 2021) *Information: A Reader.* [Columbia University Press](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/information/9780231186216). - Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel, eds. (Jan 2021) *Information: Keywords*. [Columbia University Press](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/information/9780231198776). - Daniel Midena, Richard Yeo, eds. ‘Towards a history of the questionnaire’, *[Intellectual History Review](https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rihr20/32/3?nav=tocList)*, vol. 32, no.3 (2022), pp. 503-644. ### News expand\_more ## News [### ISIH 2022: Histories of Knowledge: Political, Historical and Cultural Epistemologies in Intellectual History (Conference, 12-15 September, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) ](/news/isih-2022-histories-knowledge-political-historical-and-cultural-epistemologies) September 12, 2022 [### Forgeries in History: Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection at Johns Hopkins University awarded a $223,000 grant ](/news/forgeries-history-bibliotheca-fictiva-collection-johns-hopkins-university-awarded) June 18, 2022 [### CfA: Journal History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) (Deadline May 17, 2021) ](/news/cfa-journal-history-intellectual-culture-hic-deadline-may-17-2021) May 17, 2021 [### From Ashley Gonik's research vlog: a travel to Antwerp in 2019 ](/news/ashley-goniks-research-vlog-travel-antwerp-2019) May 16, 2021 [### Explain Yourself: Visual Communication in Early Modern Printed Calendars ](/news/explain-yourself-visual-communication-early-modern-printed-calendars) May 14, 2021 [### Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for the Curious Mind. Dr Waseem Akhtar spoke with Paul Duguid about the History of Information ](/news/bridging-gaps-portal-curious-mind-dr-waseem-akhtar-spoke-paul-duguid-about-history) April 19, 2021 ### Reviews expand\_more 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…](https://www.thecharityreport.com/literary-circle/information-the-book-editors-efforts-have-borne-excellent-fruit/) James W. Cortada, review in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 52, Number 2, Autumn 2021, pp. 265-267 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), Lena Hernandez, “Information: A Historical Companion Book Review.” School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, . 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…](https://asistdl-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdf/10.1002/asi.24603) Marc Kosciejew, in Technology and Culture, 2021, Vol.62 (4), p.1276-1277 Ron McColl, review in College & research libraries, 2022, Vol.83 (2), p.343 Михаил Сергеев, "История информации — по хронологии, темам и алфавиту." [https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe\_literaturnoe\_obozrenie/182\_nlo\_…](https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/182_nlo_4_2023/) (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, . ### Publicity expand\_more Anthony Grafton, “Sherlock Holmes and the history of information.” Princeton University Press, January 28 2021. Ann Blair, “The Multitude of Books” Lapham’s Quarterly, Jan 27 2021. (this got onto hacker news on Jan 30 2021)