Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Peiss, Kathy Lee (1953-....)
Titre(s) : Information hunters [Texte imprimé] : when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe / Kathy Peiss
Publication : New York : Oxford University Press, copyright [2020]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-259) and index
"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign
publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians,
scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid
the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for
intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive
program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores and
schools and gathered together countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques
in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered
books, engaged in restitution, and participated in the denazification of book collections.
Information Hunters explores what collecting meant to the men and women who embarked
on these missions, and how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on
books and documents. It uncovers the worlds of collecting, in spy-ridden Stockholm
and Lisbon, in liberated Paris and devastated Berlin, and in German caves and mineshafts.
The wartime collecting missions had lasting effects. They intensified the relationship
between libraries and academic institutions, on the one hand, and the government and
military, on the other. Book and document acquisition became part of the apparatus
of national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. These efforts
also spurred the development of information science and boosted research libraries'
ambitions to be great national repositories for research and the dissemination of
knowledge that would support American global leadership, politically and intellectually."
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : When librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World
War II Europe
- Autre forme du titre : When librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World
War Two Europe
- Autre forme du titre : When librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World
War 2 Europe
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Confiscations -- Europe
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Services de renseignements -- États-Unis
Livres -- Europe -- 1900-1945
Bibliothèques -- Acquisitions -- États-Unis -- 1900-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
940.537 3 (23e éd.) = Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Participation des États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190944612. - ISBN 0190944617. - ISBN 9780190944636 (erroné). - ISBN 9780190944629
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46956930r
Notice n° :
FRBNF46956930
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The country of the mind must also attack -- ; Librarians and collectors go to war
-- ; The wild scramble for documents -- ; Acquisitions on a grand scale -- ; Fugitive
records of war -- ; Book burning, American style -- ; Not a library, but a large depot
of loot.
