@book{14025,
  author = {James Joseph O'Donnell},
  title = {Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace},
  year = {1998},
  pages = {210 pp.},
  publisher = {Harvard University Press},
  address = {Cambridge, MA},
  isbn = {9780674055452},
  note = {General overview of the history of writing.

Contents:
Preface
Introduction: The scholar in his study
Phaedrus: hearing Socrates, reading Plato 
From the Alexandrian Library to the virtual library and beyond 
Hyperlink: The instability of the text 
From the Codex page to the homepage 
Hyperlink: The shrine of nonlinear reading 
The persistence of the old and the pragmatics of the new 
Hyperlink: Who owns that idea? 
The ancients and the moderns: the classics and western civilizations 
Augustine today: linear narratives and multiple pathways 
The new liberal arts: teaching in the postmodern world 
Hyperlink: How does teaching work? 
What becomes of universities? (For professors only) 
Cassiodorus: Or, the life of the mind in cyberspace},
  language = {English},
}