Paper: history and evolution

Authors

  • Ashraf Maklad School librarian, Egypt Ph.D. researcher in Archives, Alexandria University, Egypt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12816/0041219

Abstract

There is no doubt that the writing is one of the largest and most important civilized steps of mankind, because it helped to blogging and transfer of expertise and Sciences from generation to another one. Various writing instruments have represented the main concern for human beings to monopolize and control it from different civilizations throughout history. Invention of paper has been one of the most important achievements of human beings for the dissemination of science and knowledge.

Different civilizations and nations successive have worked to develop and improve the paper to serve different purposes of writing for more than 2000's years. Paper has sat on top of writing instruments for too long and has become the most important writing material for its' ease of production,  multiplicity of raw materials, and its low costs, and although the digital era paper still on the top.

Published

2016-12-31

How to Cite

Maklad, A. (2016). Paper: history and evolution. Cybrarians Journal, (44). https://doi.org/10.12816/0041219