#  Storing, Archiving, Organizing 

 



##  Conrad Gessner (1515-1565): Cat. 

From: Historiae animalium (Lib. I De quadrupedibus viviparis), Zurich: Froschauer, 1551. CC: Marseille Bibliothéque Municipale



 

 

 

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Learning is about knowledge, right? But what kind of knowledge would that be? Is it important to know, who the next German Chancellor will be, that is develop prophetic skills based on solid statistics? Without doubt. Other forms of useful knowledge are, for example ten different ways to say “I love you”, or simply, “thank you”; or finally, to know about the date when the second world war came to an end, that is historically proven facts. In Zurich in the 16th century, all three approaches had their moment, and one was particularly taking dominance: Storing, archiving, organizing, in one word, collecting useful snippets about facts and data, and make them available for later use by grouping them and pinning them down according to topics of interest. This is, what this project is about, and I will explain how 16th century academic information management worked, by focusing on post-reformatory Zurich and its theological seminary.



 

##  Project Events and Beyond 

 



  [### Book Publication

 ](/event/book-publication?occ_id=0)Dec 12, 2016

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 12:00AM EST 

 

 In Person 

 Storing, Archiving, OrganizingThe Changing Dynamics of Scholarly Information Management in Post-Reformation Zurich Series: Library of the Written Word , Volume: 56 Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World , Volume: 56 Author: Anja-Silvia Goeing... 

 

 

   [### Co-operative Inter-regional Worlds and Networks of Higher Learning: Productions, Markets, Travel and Trade

 ](/event/co-operative-inter-regional-worlds-and-networks-higher-learning-productions?occ_id=0)Oct 15, 2016

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 12:00AM EDT 

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 Institute for Historical Research, London 

 

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 Research Questions Institutions of higher education could not operate without the supply of different materials that helped every-day learning and teaching. They sought co-operative and inter-regional networks of trade and skills: how did the marketing of... 

 

 

   [### Gessner Congress Zurich

 ](/event/gessner-congress-zurich?occ_id=0)Jun. 6 - Jun 9, 2016

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 12:00AM - 12:00AM EDT 

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 University of Zurich 

 

 In Person 

 More Information: <http://www.gessner500.ch/pages/kongress.php>

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

##  CFP's and Reviews 

 



  [### Exhibit: Missionaries and Linguists: Jesuit Grammars from Africa and Native America

 ](/news/cfps-and-reviews) September 28, 2016 

 The Exhibit runs from September 1 to October 7, 2016 and is situated at The John J. Burns Library, Boston College 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  [### School Minutes 0: Preface, List of Academic Directors

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