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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)
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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)
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initiated a new channel for distribution of unpublished data.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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