Intellectual Exchange and the New Information Order of the Interwar Years: The British Society for International Bibliography, 1927-1937

Laqua, Daniel (2013) Intellectual Exchange and the New Information Order of the Interwar Years: The British Society for International Bibliography, 1927-1937. Library Trends, 62 (2). pp. 465-477. ISSN 0024-2594

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

This article examines how the internationalism of the interwar years interacted with a growing concern for documentation and knowledge organization. To this end, it examines the work of the British Society for International Biography. The organization sought close links with British institutions but had pronounced transnational features: it championed the Universal Decimal Classification, collaborated with the International Institute of Bibliography in Brussels, and interacted with the League of Nations’ bodies for intellectual cooperation. As a whole, the article shows how different actors sought to shape a new information order, yet it also traces the obstacles that they encountered.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	P100 Information Services P900 Others in Mass Communications and Documentation V100 History by period V200 History by area V300 History by topic
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Related URLs:	Organisation
Depositing User:	Dr Daniel Laqua
Date Deposited:	20 Mar 2014 16:35
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:24
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/15914

Downloads