From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Bibliography Outline

The Word Bibliography is Derived from a Greek Word for Papyrus
(Circa 3,100 BCE – 3,050 BCE)

The Origins of Bibliography
(Circa 200 BCE)

The First Auto-Bibliography
(Circa 190 CE)

The First Collection of Bio-Bibliographies
(392 CE)

Partial Inventory of the Court Library of Charlemagne at Aachen
(Circa 790)

Inventories of Ninth Century Libraries
(833 – 835)

The Earliest Universal Bibliography
(988 – 990)

The Arrangement and Cataloguing of Books
(Circa 1270)

Foundation of the Library of the Sorbonne, and "Perhaps the Earliest Specific and Organized System of Book Arrangement in a Library"
(1271)

Organization of the Sorbonne Library, and the Way it Was Physically Arranged
(1290)

Medieval Union Catalogue of Manuscripts
(Circa 1320)

The Second Catalogue of the Library of the Sorbonne
(1338)

Medieval Union Catalogue of Manuscripts Names 694 Authors
(Circa 1350)

The High Point of Medieval Library Cataloguing
(1389)

The Earliest Surviving Remnant of Any European Book Printed by Moveable Type
(Circa 1452 – 1453)

The Earliest Surviving Book List Issued by a Printer
(June 1469 – September 1470)

The Earliest Subject Bibliography
(1494)

The First Printed Bibliography on Secular Subjects
(1495)

Printing Presses are Established in 282 Cities
(December 1500)

The First Medical Bibliography and First Medical History after Celsus
(1506)

The First Legal Bibliography
(1522)

The First Publisher's Catalogue in Book Form
(1542)

The First Universal Bibliography Since the Invention of Printing
(1545 – 1555)

The First General Subject Index
(1548 – 1549)

The First National Bibliography
(1548)

The First Bio-Bibliography
(1562)

The First Catalogue of the Frankfurt Book Fair
(1564)

Possibly the First Printed Catalogue of Any Library
(1572)

The First French National Bibliography
(1584)

The First Systematic Medical Bibliography
(1590)

The First Medical Subject Bibliography
(1591)

The First Published Catalogue of any Institutional Library
(1595)

The First "Books in Print"
(1595)

Model for Subject Bibliographies
(1598)

The First Bibliography Published in the New World
(1606)

Coining the Term Incunabula
(1639)

The First Book on Librarianship in English
(1650)

The Earliest Bibliography of Bibliographies
(1664)

The First Anthology on Libraries and Library Science
(1666)

The First Bibliography of Rare Books
(1676)

Newton's Principia Mathematica
(1687)

The First Attempt to Collect and Organize the Literature of Early Printing
(1688)

The First Independently Published Bibliography of Mathematics
(1688)

A Universal Bibliography but Only for "A and B"
(1699)

The First Book Auction Conducted in Paris for Which a Catalogue was Printed
(July – December 1706)

The First Bibliography of Americana
(1713)

The First Periodical Published in English on Rare Books & Manuscripts
(1738)

The First Union Catalogue of Manuscripts
(1739)

The First Catalogue Raisonne in Western Art History
(1751)

First Catalogue of the British Museum Library
(1787)

The First Thematic Index of a Composer's Work, Based on Mozart's Own Index
(1805)

The First Extensive Catalogue of the Library of Congress
(November 1815)

The Greatest Private Collector of Manuscripts
(1837 – 1871)

Panizzi's 91 Rules for Standardizing the Cataloguing of Books
(1841)

The First Separately PublishedBibliography on the History of Science
(1847)

Early Proposal for a National Union Catalogue
(1852)

The Basis for a Catalogue Code
(1856)

The First Catalogue of a Library on Computing and its History
(1872)

The Last Library Cataloguing Code Written by One Person
(1876)

Index Medicus Begins
(1879)

A Landmark in Efforts to Organize Information and Make it Searchable
(1880)

An Analog Search Engine
(1895)

A New Standard for Descriptive Bibliography in the History of Science
(1906)

The First Library of Rare Science Books Formed by an American
(1908)

The Wheeler Gift Catalogue
(1909)

"Die Brucke" and its Goals for a World Information Clearing House
(1911)

The Library of Congress Catalogue
(1942 – 1953)

The Hinman Collator
(1945 – 1949)

Compiling a Bibliography by Electric Punched Card Tabulating
(1950)

Applying New Technology to the Searching and Storage of Information
(1951)

Early Library Information Retrieval System
(1954)

The Most Voluminous Printed Catalogue of a Single Library
(1959 – 1972)

Printing and the Mind of Man
(July 16 – July 27, 1963)

OCLC is Founded
(1967)

Probably the Largest Printed Bibliography, Complete in 754 Folio Volumes
(1968 – 1981)

Medline is Operational
(October 1971)

The English Short Title Catalogue
(June 1976)

756 Folio Volumes, Obsolete within 25 Years
(April 21 – June 6, 1981)

Origins of Cyberspace
(2002)

OCLC Serves More than 50,000 Libraries, Contains 56 Million Records
(2004)

The Index-Catalogue Goes Online
(May 1, 2004)

The Century of Science Initiative
(January 2005)

The Changing Nature of the Catalogue. . . .
(March 17, 2006)

A Critical Review at the Library of Congress
(April 3, 2006)

OCLC Merges with RLG
(July 1, 2006)