The organization of information has a very long history. It seems that as soon as information begins to gather in a large enough quantity, people will begin to organize it to suit their needs. There are examples of this need for organization both in ancient and current times. One of the earliest known examples of information organization is a Sumerian tablet found in Nippur around 2000 BC. At that time, a large number of literary compositions inscribed on tablets of all types and shapes existed in Sumer. This particular tablet however was different because it was a literary catalogue. It listed by title a group of Sumerian literary compositions, 24 of the 62 titles are currently known. The scribe who created the list probably did so to help with the preservation and archiving of the tablets. A second example is when in 1500 BC, the Hittite kingdom, which was the largest and richest power in the region at the time, actually inscribed their tablets with some bibliographic data at the end of a document including the series tablet number , its title and the name of the scribe. The kingdom produced a large amount of information, including entire royal archives, which had to be organised. The inscribed data no doubt helped a lot with the organization of their tablets. A final example from ancient times is when the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, who was very proud of his education, founded a library in the city of Nineveh. He sent scholars to many places to copy tablets and bring them to Nineveh; this resulted in a very large library that had to be organized. By 650 BC the library was large enough (20,000 tablets) that a systematic system of order and authenticity was necessary. Unfortunately this tendency to find a better... half of the paper... classified in the AACR2 in 1978 This allowed the codes to address other materials besides books, to take into account the automatic processing of bibliographic records (MARC) and to reconcile the British and American texts. The AACR2 has since been revised twice, once in 1988 and again in 1998. It is now being replaced with the RDA so that libraries can have a comprehensive set of description and access guidelines that cover everyone types of media; as new formats and technologies become available, the way people organize information will continue to change, but the need to do so will always be there. Therefore, the organization of information not only has a very long history, but it is something that will continue to happen. Works Cited Taylor, Arlene G, and Daniel N. Joudrey. The organization of information. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2009. Print.