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001 2007023683
003 DLC
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008 070612s2007 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780754649281 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aZ665.2.E85$bE87 2007
082 00 $a020.94$222
245 00 $aEuropean modernism and the information society :$binforming the present, understanding the past /$c[edited by] by W. Boyd Rayward.
260 $aAldershot, Hants, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$cc2007.
263 $a0711
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: European modernism and the information society : conceptual interdependence / W. Boyd Rayward -- Understanding the information domain : the uneasy relations between sociology and cultural studies and the peculiar absence of history / Frank Webster -- On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century / Michael Buckland -- A tale of two narratives : prolegomena to an alternative history of library and information science / Steve Fuller -- The role of facts in Paul Otlet's modernist project of documentation / Bernd Frohmann -- Ferdinand Vander Haeghen's shadow on Otlet : European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office international de bibliographie / Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem -- Towers and globes : architectural and epistemological differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums / Pierre Chabard -- Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web : Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization / Charles van den Heuvel -- Networking knowledge before the information society : the Manchester Central Library (1934) and the metaphysical-professional philosophy of L.S. Jast / Alistair Black -- Documentation and utopia : Fabian anticipations of the information society / Alistair S. Duff -- Public science in Britain and the origins of documentation and information science, 1890-1950 / Dave Muddiman -- The march of the modern and the reconstitution of the world's knowledge apparatus : H.G. Wells, encyclopedism, and the world brain / W. Boyd Rayward -- The modern museum in the age of its mechanical reproducibility : Otto Neurath and the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna / Nader Vossoughian -- Gesellschaft und wirtschaft : an encyclopedia in Otto Neurath's pictorial statistics from 1930 / Sybilla Nikolow -- Visualizing social facts : Otto Neurath's isotype project / Frank Hartmann -- Paper parasite : F.M. Feldhaus and the historiography of technology / Markus Krajewski -- Roots of mediating information : aspects of the German information movement / Thomas Hapke.
650 0 $aInformation science$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aDocumentation$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aInformation society$zEurope.
650 0 $aKnowledge, Sociology of$zEurope.
700 1 $aRayward, W. Boyd,$d1939-