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Melvil Dewey: his enduring presence in librarianship (1978)
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Libraries / United States
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Libraries / United States
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Wiegand, W.A.: Irrepressible reformer : a biography of Melvil Dewey (1996)
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- Abstract
- Finally, Melvil Dewey fully revealed, in entertaining prose, built on rigorous and deep historical scholarship. This is the definitive biography we've missed for so long. It tells the story of an American archetype?a man imbued with the inventive curiosity, sexism, anti-Semitism, racism, type-A control-freakishness, and reform zeal so characteristic of the power brokers of his time and his nation. The result is a masterpiece of history. It appropriately bears the imprint of the library association he founded and nurtured and which was enlisted for years to coconspire to cover up the darker side of the old boy. Wiegand's (a Dewey historian) penetrating, provocative interpretations add to the readability and pleasure of this fine biography, even his highly arguable view that the persistence of Dewey's design for librarianship means it "will likely remain a marginal profession." To this member of the small club of holders of jobs Dewey once held, it is obvious that Wiegand's work can be used to make the opposite case as well: that it was Dewey who gave librarianship any hope at all of becoming central to modern American society. Either way, you should own and read this brilliant, comprehensive study of the biased crackpot genius to whom we librarians owe so much.?
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- Librarians / United States / Biography
Educators / United States / Biography
Social reformers / United States / Biography
- Subject
- Librarians / United States / Biography
Educators / United States / Biography
Social reformers / United States / Biography
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Dawson, J.: Logical dilemmas : the life and work of Kurt Gödel (1996)
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Logicians / Austria / Biography
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Logicians / Austria / Biography
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Winchester, S.: ¬Der Mann, der die Wörter liebte : Eine wahre Geschichte (1998)
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- Psychiatric hospital patients / Great Britain / Biography
Lexicographers / Great Britain / Biography
United States / History / Civil War, 1861 / 1865 / Veterans / Biography
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- Psychiatric hospital patients / Great Britain / Biography
Lexicographers / Great Britain / Biography
United States / History / Civil War, 1861 / 1865 / Veterans / Biography
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Jumonville, F.M.: ¬The role of the state in the organization of statewide library service : Essae M. Culver, Louisiana's first state librarian (2004)
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- Abstract
- In 1925 the Carnegie Corporation granted $50,000 to Louisiana, a state then "backward in library development," to fund a demonstration of rural public library development. Essae M. Culver, a California librarian, was chosen to direct the project. Culver arrived in Louisiana to find that the entire state needed organizing. She concluded that the parish (county) was the appropriate unit upon which to base a system of libraries and adapted California's demonstration system to the southern state's needs. Key to Culver's method was local funding after the demonstration period, and she convinced legislators to finance the state library agency. Similarly, voters concurred that their parish libraries were worth keeping, and, despite some early failures during times of flood and economic depression, parish libraries eventually were established throughout the state. Culver's demonstration method was credited with greatly influencing library development both in the United States and abroad.
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Satija, M.P.: Birth centenary literature on Ranganathan : a review (1993)
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- Abstract
- Discusses the books and articles written to commemmorate the centenary of the birth of S.R. Ranganathan in 1992. 9 books were published for the occasion and 6 special issues of journals; in addition articles about Ranganathan appeared in at least 10 other periodicals. Topics covered included Ranganathan's biography, his research methodology, his influence on classification and library science, and evaluations of his work
- Date
- 5. 1.1999 16:27:22
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Rayward, W.B.: ¬The case of Paul Otlet, pioneer of information science, internationalist, visionary : reflections on biography (1991)
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Memorabilia Ranganathan (1994)
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- Abstract
- After a short biography and a list of the source documents, the volume contains quotations from the writings of Ranganathan on 17 subjects among which the 'Universe of knowledge' (S.23-24) and 'Classification' (S.51-66), the latter taking the largest space in the volume.
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Kumar, G.: S.R. Ranganathan : an intellectual biography (1992)
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¬The making of a dictionary : James A H Murray (1996)
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- Abstract
- Describes the work of J.A.H. Murray (1837-1915) as the first editor of the 'Oxford English Dictionary', based on his granddaughter's biography
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Cooksey, E.B.: George Boole : the man behind 'and/or/not' (1997)
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- Abstract
- George Boole lived a quiet life in mid 19th century Britain, but the influence of his work continues to touch the lives of librarians and library users around the world daily as they search automated databases. Gives a short biography of Boole, who was a mathematical genius and the inventor of 'Boolean operators'
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Buckland, M.K.: Emanuel Goldberg and his knowledge machine : information, invention, and political forces (2006)
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Copeland, B.J.: Turing: pioneer of the information age (2012)
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Panizzi, A.K.C.B.: Passages in my official life (1871)
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- 22. 7.2007 12:05:26
22. 7.2007 12:08:24
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Schön, J.: Zum Gedenken an Paul Otlet : 1868-1944 (1968)
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- DK-Mitteilungen. 13(1968) Nr.6, S.21-22
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Guedj, D.: Nicholas Bourbaki, collective mathematician : an interview with Clause Chevalley (1985)
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Knorz, G.: Nachruf für Gerhard Lustig (1993)
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Senechal, M.: ¬The continuing silence of Bourbaki : an interview with Pierre Cartier, June 18, 1997 (1998)
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- Mathematical intelligencer. 20(1998) no.1, S.22-28
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Schultz, U.: Descartes : Biografie (2001)
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- Rez. in: FR, Nr.125 vom 31.5.2001, S.22 (S. Hanuschek)
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Levie, F.: ¬L' Homme qui voulait classer le monde : Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum (2006)
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- Rez. in: KO 33(2006) no.2, S. 120-121 (S. Ducheyne): "To the readers of this journal the founding founder of bibliography and information science, the Belgian Paul Otlet (1868-1944), ground-layer of the Universal Decimal Classification, anticipator of multimedia, virtual libraries, and the Internet, and co-inventor of the microfilm or, as it was originally called, "le Bibliophote" (p. 107) (an achievement he shares together with Robert Goldschmidt), scarcely needs introduction. Françoise Levie's new biography of Otlet embodies the research she has started with the production of the documentary of the same name (Sofidoc, 2002, 60 min.). It is impossible to give a chapter-bychapter overview of this informatively dense and beautifully illustrated book, which consists of twenty chapters, a concluding piece by Benoît Peeters, a very useful list and description of the pivotal figures in Otlet's life, and a list containing the locations of the sources consulted (an index is, unfortunately, not provided). I will therefore restrict myself by pointing to Levie's innovative contributions to our knowledge of Otlet and to topics that are of genuine interest to the readers of this journal. Levie's book is the result of a fascinating, worldwide quest into the remains of Otlet's work and his international connections. Ever since W Boyd Rayward's monumental 1975 The Universe of Information: The Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization (Moscow: VINITI), this book is the second systematic survey of the Collections of the Mundaneum (now, after various peregrinations, preserved at Bergen/Mons, Belgium) (cf. pp. 339-340), which contains Otlet's private documents, the "Otletaneum". Sixty-eight unopened banana boxes were the main source of inspirations for Levie's research. Of special interest in this respect is Levie's discovery of Otlet's 1916 diary "le Cahier Blue". As these boxes were, at the time Levie conducted her research, not classified and as they were thereafter re-divided and re-classified, precise references to this collection are not provided and the text is simply quoted during the course of the book (p. 339). While this is perfectly understandable, I would have welcomed exact references to Otlet's main works such as, for instance, Traité de documentation and Monde, Essai d'universalisme which are also quoted without supplying further details.
