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From Documentation to Information Science - The Beginnings and Early Development of the American Documentation Institute--American Society for Information Science (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,820
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From Documentation to Information Science - The Beginnings and Early Development of the American Documentation...

From Documentation to Information Science - The Beginnings and Early Development of the American Documentation Institute--American Society for Information Science (Hardcover, New)

Irene Frakas Conn

Series: Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science

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As fast-paced technical changes are transforming the field of information science, this book explores in depth the early stages of the field through the history of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), which began in 1937 as the American Documentation Institute (ADI). ADIs early years coincided with the period when the organization, communication, and retrieval of information began to undergo critical changes. At this time, its appointed members represented the scientific and scholarly elite of the country. ADI offered innovative services that allowed research workers to obtain published information from remote sources and initiated a new channel for distribution of unpublished data. Only in the early 1950s did ADI become a membership organization. Examining this period, Irene Farkas-Conn raises important questions: How did the ADI come about? Did its founding signal the beginning of a new profession? Was it then, or still now, a technology-driven organization? Bringing together her knowledge of organizations, insights gained from interviews with key actors, and analysis of archival collections and private papers, she reconstitutes the emergence of the field as the history of ASIS is covered. Beginning with a detailed survey of the post-World War I period that preceded the creation of ADI covering topics such as the impact of national science, the introduction of microfilm for dissemination of scientific and scholarly information, copywright and documentation in the mid-1930s, she leads up to a discussion of the establishment and early years of the institute. The next sections covering World War II and the post-war period bring out the tie between the organization of wartime research and development and scientific communication, which contributed to the winning of the war. The concept of a Scientific Information Institute that would embrace bibliography, announcement, and distribution of scientific work, which Watson Davis developed in the 30s, was being realized in the postwar period when the cumulated results of wartime research had to be made avaliable to the public under presidential order. The remaining chapters chart international interests, restructuring of the institute, and the role of government and the profession in a changed society. The book includes a selected bibliography embodied in the endnotes and an index.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Series: Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science
Release date: December 1990
First published: December 1990
Authors: Irene Frakas Conn
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-25505-2
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Library, archive & information management
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Library & information services
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LSN: 0-313-25505-9
Barcode: 9780313255052

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