All You Can Do with Catalogs

Workshop

convened by: Dr. Paola Molino (LMU Munich; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung), Guy Burak (New York University Library/Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department), Dagmar Riedel (Columbia University), Martina Siebert (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/East Asia Department; Independent Scholar)

The workshop explores shifts in the classification of knowledge in the pre-modern world by examining the evolution of finding aids such as catalogs, indices, card files, and bibliographies from a global perspective. Did theories and practices of knowledge classificatoin respond only to concrete local and spatial inputs or were they connected on the global scale? How was the access to knowledge organized and through which media was it accessed (books, summaries, bibliographical dictionaries)? 

Venues:

• Thursday 6 October 2016: Staatsbibliothek zu Berin, Simón-Bolívar-Sall, Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin (nicht barrierefrei)
• Friday 7 October 2016: Forum Transnationale Studien, Wallotstraße 14, 14193 Berlin

Please register:

• bibliographies@trafo-berlin.de
• Forum Transregionale Studien