High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pinakes (Ancient Greek: "tables", plural of ) was the first library catalog, a catalog of books and scrolls. The library catalog was a set of indexes used at the Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, starting in the third century BCE. Only a few fragments of it have survived, which give an approximation of the organization of the whole.The Library of Alexandria had been founded by Ptolemy I Soter about 306 BCE. The first recorded librarian was Zenodotus of Ephesus. His successor in 245 BCE was the Greek poet Callimachus of Cyrene. Callimachus is considered the first bibliographer and is the one that organized the library by authors and subjects about 245 BCE.