03546cam a2200349 4500 584005490 TxAuBib 20220519120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780190944636 0190944633 B081JZ1YJX Amazon B081JZ1YJX Amazon B081JZ1YJX Amazon c9435a4a-58bc-4140-b5cf-c9f9da2a9aa9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5139794 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Peiss, Kathy. Information Hunters [Libby eBook] : When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe. Oxford University Press, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 7572kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring and preserving the written word, as well as providing critical information for intelligence purposes, these American civilians set off on missions to gather foreign publications and information across Europe. They journeyed to neutral cities in search of enemy texts, followed a step behind advancing armies to capture records, and seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools. When the war ended, they found looted collections hidden in cellars and caves. Their mission was to document, exploit, preserve, and restitute these works, and even, in the case of Nazi literature, to destroy them. In this fascinating account, cultural historian Kathy Peiss reveals how book and document collecting became part of the new apparatus of intelligence and national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. Focusing on the ordinary Americans who carried out these missions, she shows how they made decisions on the ground to acquire sources that would be useful in the war zone as well as on the home front. These collecting missions also boosted the postwar ambitions of American research libraries, offering a chance for them to become great international repositories of scientific reports, literature, and historical sources. Not only did their wartime work have lasting implications for academic institutions, foreign-policy making, and national security, it also led to the development of today's essential information science tools. Illuminating the growing global power of the United States in the realms of intelligence and cultural heritage, Peiss tells the story of the men and women who went to Europe to collect and protect books and information and in doing so enriches the debates over the use of data in times of both war and peace. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-17 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c9435a4a-58bc-4140-b5cf-c9f9da2a9aa9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c9435a4a-58bc-4140-b5cf-c9f9da2a9aa9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c9435a4a-58bc-4140-b5cf-c9f9da2a9aa9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)