Historical Nodes of Inquiry University Education and Technological Tectonic Shifts Ned Fielden Librarian San Francisco State University San Francisco,

Historical Nodes of Inquiry Historical Nodes of Inquiry University Education and University Education and

Technological Tectonic ShiftsTechnological Tectonic Shifts

Ned FieldenLibrarianSan Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, California, [email protected]

http://online.sfsu.edu/~fielden/cam

Nodes of InquiryNodes of Inquiry

Shortage of TextsPecia SystemPrinting Press

Need to Share IdeasThe Languages of Learned

Discourse in the 17th & 18th Centuries:

Journals, Letters, Academic Societies

PeciaPecia System System

• Text Copying System– Xerox of the 13th Century

• Authoritative Text (Pecia)• Distributed to Scribes• Bought or Rented at Stationers• Regulated by University

Pecia UniversitiesPecia Universities

• Bologna• Padua• Verceli• Perugia• Terviso• Florence• Naples

• Paris• Toulouse• Oxford • Salamanca

Pollard, G. 1978

1717thth & 18 & 18thth Century CenturyScholarly CommunicationScholarly Communication

Leibniz & NewtonLearned Societies more important than UniversitiesLettersPublications

Moral of Technological Moral of Technological ChangeChange

• Does not need to be Earth-shaking• Human Centered• Anything that brings Minds & Ideas

Together is a Good Thing