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Praeger 12/30/1990 Hardback or Cased Book New in New jacket From Documentation to Information Science: The Beginnings and Early Development of the American Documentation Institute--American Society for Informat (Hardback or Cased Book)
ISBN10: 0313255059, ISBN13: 9780313255052, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. 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research workers to obtain published information from remote sources and initiated a new channel for distribution of unpublished data.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, ...
New York Praeger 1990 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 248 p. Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science.
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