Information and Modernity: The History of Information and the Eclipse of Library History
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| Year of Publication |
1998
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Library History
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14
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1
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| Pagination |
39-45
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| Abstract |
The author argues that library history should not be seen as an aspect of the history of institutions but as a sub-set of ‘information history’, particularly considering the role of librarians in the modern state in surveillance and bureaucracy. This paper was read at the Library History Group's ‘Libraries and Modernity’ conference held as part of the Library Association's UmbrelLA4 meeting at UMIST, Manchester, in June I997.
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