Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
(Part of the History and Foundations of Information Science Series)
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An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology. In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how science itself became enmeshed with ideology and the institutions of modern liberalism. In the 1890s, the idealistic American Herbert Haviland...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:026202702X
ISBN13:9780262027021
Release Date:May 2014
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.3" x 9.2"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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