America's information wars : the untold story of information systems in America's conflicts and politics from World War II to the internet age /: the untold story of information systems in America's conflicts and politics from World War II to the internet age. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Colin B. Burke.
• Authors: Burke, Colin B, 1936-
• Contents: Part One: Information at War with Hitler and Tojo, Then with Stalin ; Chapter 1 The OSS&rsquo; Unusual Librarians ; Chapter 2 Forging an Intelligence System ; Chapter 3 A New Information Culture ; Chapter 4 Microfilm at the OSS, for War and Profit ; Chapter 5 One System for All Intelligence ; Chapter 6 CIA&rsquo;s Classification and Automation Battles ; Part Two: Cold War Information Politics and Lives ; Chapter 7 Ideology and Science Information Policy ; Chapter 8 The CIA&rsquo;s Librarians Under Fire ; Chapter 9 Library and Classification Revolutions? SAL, Semantic Factors, the Luhn Scanner ; Chapter 10 Automation Dreams, Minicard ; Chapter 11 The CIA vs. the Librarians ; Chapter 12 From Microfilm to Computers ; Chapter 13 Automatic Translation&rsquo;s Woes ; Chapter 14 A Cold War Information Career ; <h3 style="line-height:2" style="tab-stops:left 22.5pt left 27pt left 414.75pt;">Part Three: Information&rsquo;s Troubled Golden Age to the Era of Open Access ; Chapter 15 Sputnik&rsquo;s New Politics of Information ; Chapter 16 An American Information Century? ; Chapter 17 The Plural Information System Survives, With Difficulty ; Chapter 18 A New Information Era: The American Information Century&rsquo;s Challengers ; Chapter 19 Another Serials Crisis, Open Access, the Return of Ideology
• Publisher Details: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.4; History: Military / World War II; Information technology -- United States -- Management; Management information systems -- United States; Internet -- Access control -- United States; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781538112465; 1538112469
• Related ISBNs: 9781538112458
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 22, 2018).
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