Can anyone id the source of this quote?

[kestrell]

In _The Name of the Rose_, what is William quoting from when he quotes the following: "'The librarian must have a list of all books, carefully ordered by subjects and authors, and they must be classified on the shelves with numerical indications'."

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[alexxkay]

Didn't find it, but while looking came across the following, which I thought you'd appreciate:

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” -Cicero

[alexxkay]

lauradi7 sent me this message on LJ, as she had trouble posting here:

I can't find that exact quotation, but I found a possibly relevant reference from "From Memory to Written Record" by Michael Clanchy: "One other debt is due the monks, the Dominicans in particular. The Dominican friars created written rules related to locating the best site for a library, providing adequate shelving, organizing the library by subjects, marking the spines of books with their titles."