Information and intrigue : from index cards to Dewey decimals to Alger Hiss / Colin B. Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Colin B., 1936- author.

Series:

History and foundations of information science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Field, Herbert Haviland, 1868-1921.

Field, Herbert Haviland.

Concilium Bibliographicum.

Bibliographers--Biography.

Bibliographers.

Concilium Bibliographicum--History.

Classification--Books--Science.

Classification.

Information storage and retrieval systems--Science.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Field, Noel Haviland, 1904-1970.

Field, Noel Haviland.

Diplomats--Biography.

Diplomats.

Information science--History.

Information science.

History.

Science--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Science.

Science and state--History--20th century.

Science and state.

Science--Political aspects.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-347) and index.

ISBN:

9780262027021

026202702X

OCLC:

861323039