European modernism and the information society : informing the present, understanding the past / [edited] by W. Boyd Rayward.
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 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.