TY - BOOK ID - 94154392 TI - A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order PY - 2020 SN - 9781509881567 9781541675070 154167507X 1509881565 PB - London Picador DB - UniCat KW - Historical linguistics KW - alphabets [symbols] KW - Alphabetizing KW - Information organization KW - History KW - Alphabetic order arranging KW - Alphabetical order arranging KW - Alphabeting KW - Alphabetization KW - Arranging alphabetically KW - Arranging in alphabetic order KW - Filing systems KW - Information storage and retrieval KW - Organization of information KW - Information science KW - Information storage and retrieval systems UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:94154392 AB - Provides a history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot. But though even George Washington was a proponent, many others stuck to older forms of classification — Yale listed its students by their family's social status until 1886. And yet, while the order of the alphabet now rules — libraries, phone books, reference books, even the order of entry for the teams at the Olympic Games — it has remained curiously invisible. Flanders traces the triumph of alphabetical order and offers a compendium of Western knowledge, from A to Z. --From publisher description. ER -