Information and intrigue : from index cards to Dewey decimals to Alger Hiss

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Burke, Colin B., 1936- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
SeriesHistory and foundations of information science.
Subjects
Field, Herbert Haviland, > 1868-1921.
Concilium Bibliographicum > History.
Field, Noel Haviland, > 1904-1970.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Bibliographers > Biography.
Classification > Books > Science.
Information storage and retrieval systems > Science.
Diplomats > Biography.
Information science > History.
Science > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Science and state > History > 20th century.
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262323352
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xii, 370 pages) : illustrations.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Raising a perfectly modern Herbert
  • 2. An unexpected library revolution, at an unexpected place, by an unusual young fellow named Melvil Dewey
  • 3. The great men at Harvard and Herbert's information "calling"
  • 4. Challenging the British "Lion" of science information
  • 5. New information ideas in Zurich, not Brooklyn or Paris
  • 6. Starting an information revolution and business, the hard way
  • 7. Sustaining the Concilium : big debts, big gamble, big building, big friends - and a special librarian
  • 8. On the eve of World War I : two brothers, two callings - and tests of faith to Quaker ideals, business plans, family, and friends
  • 9. War and its aftermath : working for peace, competing ideologies, and the beginnings of intrigue with Allen Dulles
  • 10. The postwar liberal establishment and the family in postwar decline
  • 11. To the centers of science and philanthropy : political power in a new information world
  • 12. More conflicts between old and new science
  • 13. Information science infighting, round 1 - and Herbert's final struggles
  • 14. A Concilium without Herbert Field : Nina Field and the Rockefeller's great decisions
  • 15. Information science infighting, round 2 - and a new generation of Fields comes of age
  • 16. The information consequences of "capitalism's disaster" and the shift to applied science information
  • 17. The 1930s ideological journey of the Fields and their liberal friends
  • 18. Intrigue's beginnings, in Switzerland, England, and Cambridge
  • 19. New loves in a family of agents, and science information in a new world war
  • 20. Postwar, looking forward : more intrigue, more big science and big information stories, and more ideology.

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