From the Book - First US edition.
Chapter 1 A Is for Antiquity: From the Beginning to the Classical World p. 1 --
Chapter 2 B Is for the Benedictines: The Monasteries and the Early Middle Ages p. 27 --
Chapter 3 C Is for Categories: Authorities and Organization, to the Twelfth Century p. 43 --
Chapter 4 D Is for Distinctions: The High Middle Ages and the Search Tool p. 71 --
Chapter 5 E Is for Expansion: The Reference Work in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries p. 91 --
Chapter 6 F Is for Firsts: From the Birth of Printing to Library Catalogs in the Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries p. 105 --
Chapter 7 G Is for Government: Bureaucracy and the Office, from the Sixteenth Century to the French Revolution p. 131 --
Chapter 8 H Is for History: Libraries, Research, and Extracting in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries p. 167 --
Chapter 9 I Is for Index Cards: From Copy Clerks to Office? Supplies in the Nineteenth Century p. 197 --
Chapter 10 Y Is for Y2K: From the Phone Book to Hypertext in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries p. 221.
