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100 1 _aBurke, Colin B.,
_d1936-
_eauthor.
_98109
245 1 0 _aInformation and intrigue :
_bfrom index cards to Dewey decimals to Alger Hiss /
_cColin B. Burke.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe MIT Press,
_c[2014]
300 _axii, 370 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
_btxt
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
_bn
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
_bnc
490 0 _aHistory and foundations of information science
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 307-347) and index.
505 0 _aRaising a perfectly modern Herbert -- An unexpected library revolution, at an unexpected place, by an unusual young fellow -- The great men at Harvard and Herbert's information "calling" -- Challenging the British "Lion" of science information -- New information ideas in Zurich, not Brooklyn or Paris -- Starting an information revolution and business, the hard way -- Big debts, big gamble, big building, big friends, a special librarian -- Lydia's other adventurous boy, family responsibilities, to America with hat in hand, war -- From information to intrigue, Herbert, WWI, a young Allen Dulles -- Returning to a family in decline, meeting with the liberal establishment -- To the centers of science and political power, and a new information world -- More conflicts between old and new science -- Wistar and the Council's abstracts vs. Field's elegant classification, round 1 -- A Concilium without Herbert Field, Nina and the Rockefeller's great decisions -- A voyage home and the Council's vision for world science vs. the Concilium, round 2 -- The information consequences of "capitalism's disaster" and the shift to applied science information -- The 1930's ideological journey of the Fields and their liberal friends -- Intrigue begins, in Switzerland, England, and Cambridge -- New loves, a family of agents, science information in war, librarians stealing books?, Soviet espionage without cost -- Looking forward to more intrigue, the postwar stories of big science, big information, and more ideology.
600 1 0 _aField, Herbert Haviland,
_d1868-1921.
_98110
600 1 0 _aField, Noel Haviland,
_d1904-1970.
_98111
610 2 0 _aConcilium Bibliographicum
_xHistory.
_98112
650 0 _aBibliographers
_vBiography.
_98113
650 0 _aClassification
_xBooks
_xScience.
_98114
650 0 _aInformation storage and retrieval systems
_xScience.
_98115
650 0 _aDiplomats
_vBiography.
_98116
650 0 _aInformation science
_xHistory.
_98117
650 0 _aScience
_xPolitical aspects
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_98118
650 0 _aScience and state
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_98119
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_cBOOK
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