The Evolution of the Book Author:Frederick G. Kilgour Frederick Kilgour offers a fascinating history of the book in all its forms, a five-thousand year story that begins with clay tablets and concludes with the emerging electronic book. Kilgour, founder and first president of the Online Computer Library Center and a former librarian at Harvard and Yale, breaks new ground in emphasizing the story's ... more »technological dimension. Drawing upon a lifetime of knowledge and a historian's curiosity, Kilgour highlights the inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs who created the machinery of production and dissemination which enabled the book to keep pace with the escalating need for information.« less