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Publication date: 9 March 2015

Ole Olesen-Bagneux

Mnemonics was a tool in classification and information seeking processes in pre-print libraries. The purpose of this paper is to study the role of spatial mnemonics in Hellenistic…

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Purpose

Mnemonics was a tool in classification and information seeking processes in pre-print libraries. The purpose of this paper is to study the role of spatial mnemonics in Hellenistic libraries, including the one in Alexandria.

Design/methodology/approach

Since library- and information science has not explored this subject in depth, philology, rhetoric, book-history and archeology constitute the core literature. From this literature, the role of mnemonics in the libraries is discussed.

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A new description of the practice of classification and retrieval in Hellenistic libraries, based on spatial mnemonics.

Originality/value

This paper is a new analysis of spatial mnemonics in the Hellenistic libraries. As will become clear, they blend easily and logically with each other.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 71 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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