TY - SER
AU - Colin B. Burke
CY - Cambridge, MA
LA - French
N1 - <p>Focus on the efforts of Herbert Haviland Field who established an information service - Concilium Bibliographicum- that sent millions of index cards to American and European scientists.&nbsp;</p><p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Raising a perfectly modern Herbert </li><li>An unexpected library revolution, at an unexpected place, by an unusual young fellow </li><li>The great men at Harvard and Herbert's information "calling" </li><li>Challenging the British "Lion" of science information </li><li>New information ideas in Zurich, not Brooklyn or Paris </li><li>Starting an information revolution and business, the hard way </li><li>Big debts, big gamble, big building, big friends, a special librarian </li><li>Lydia's other adventurous boy, family responsibilities, to America with hat in hand, war </li><li>From information to intrigue, Herbert, WWI, a young Allen Dulles </li><li>Returning to a family in decline, meeting with the liberal establishment </li><li>To the centers of science and political power, and a new information world </li><li>More conflicts between old and new science </li><li>Wistar and the Council's abstracts vs. Field's elegant classification, round 1 </li><li>A Concilium without Herbert Field, Nina and the Rockefeller's great decisions </li><li>A voyage home and the Council's vision for world science vs. the Concilium, round 2 </li><li>The information consequences of "capitalism's disaster" and the shift to applied science information </li><li>The 1930's ideological journey of the Fields and their liberal friends </li><li>Intrigue begins, in Switzerland, England, and Cambridge </li><li>New loves, a family of agents, science information in war, librarians stealing books?, Soviet espionage without cost </li><li>Looking forward to more intrigue, the postwar stories of big science, big information, and more ideology</li></ul>
PB - MIT Press
PP - Cambridge, MA
PY - 2014
SN - 9780262027021
EP - 370 pp.
TI - Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
ER -