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Information and intrigue : from index cards to Dewey decimals to Alger Hiss
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- Creator
- Colin B. Burke
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
- Physical Details
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- xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0262323354, 026202702X, 9780262323369, 9780262027021, 0262323362, 9780262323352
- OCLC
- ocn861323039, ocn881431508
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-347) and index.
- Raising 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
Subjects
- Field, Herbert Haviland, 1868-1921.
- Field, Noel Haviland, 1904-1970.
- Concilium Bibliographicum -- History.
- 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.