Author: Adolf Law VogePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification, Decimal
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Systematic Code and Index for the Relative Decimal Classification of a Card Bibliography of Electrochemistry and Allied Subjects
Author: Adolf Law VogePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification, Decimal
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Information and Intrigue
Author: Colin B. BurkePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262323362
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology. In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how science itself became enmeshed with ideology and the institutions of modern liberalism. In the 1890s, the idealistic American Herbert Haviland Field established the Concilium Bibliographicum, a Switzerland-based science information service that sent millions of index cards to American and European scientists. Field's radical new idea was to index major ideas rather than books or documents. In his struggle to create and maintain his system, Field became entangled with nationalistic struggles over the control of science information, the new system of American philanthropy (powered by millionaires), the politics of an emerging American professional science, and in the efforts of another information visionary, Paul Otlet, to create a pre-digital worldwide database for all subjects. World War I shuttered the Concilium, and postwar efforts to revive it failed. Field himself died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Burke carries the story into the next generation, however, describing the astonishingly varied career of Field's son, Noel, who became a diplomat, an information source for Soviet intelligence (as was his friend Alger Hiss), a secret World War II informant for Allen Dulles, and a prisoner of Stalin. Along the way, Burke touches on a range of topics, including the new entrepreneurial university, Soviet espionage in America, and further efforts to classify knowledge.
Selected Materials in Classification
Author: Case Western Reserve University. Bibliographic Systems CenterPublisher: New York : Special Libraries Association
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Engineering and Mining Journal
Author: The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912
Author: Marion E. PotterPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Engineering and Mining Journal
Author: Machine Literature Searching
Author: James Whitney PerryPublisher:
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Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description