Catálogo de los instrumentos tecnológicos anunciados en Library Journal que se usaron en las bibliotecas : volumen 1. De 1876-1950

Abstract

The Catalogue of the technological instruments announced in Library Journal that were used in libraries (2 vols.) constitutes an historical study about the use of technology in the library. If well is truth that actually the predominant focus are the Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC), it also is that during all its existence the library has benefited of the diverse technologies avilable, including the simplest one of those applied, they represented in its time a substantial improvement in the quality of the service, the organization of collections, the conservation of these ones, and the optimization of time and resources. In this book Adolfo Rodriguez identifies a series of technological instruments that were incorporated to the library work from 1876 to 1991. This was product of a documental research in which he identified the commercial advertisements published in Library [u1] Journal, where the author describes the technological tools available in the market during the mentioned period. Considering the commercial advertisements as testimony of the objects, it is possible to analyze the available technologies, to contextualize the tendencies and document their inclusion in the libraries. He does not limit to the description of technology, but rather shows the way in which it promoted herself.