Librarians and Collectors Go to War

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-67
Author(s):  
Kathy Peiss
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Open Source Intelligence ◽  
Work Done

The OSS sent librarians and scholars to outposts in Stockholm, Lisbon, and other neutral cities to spearhead a vast collecting and microfilming operation. They acquired enemy newspapers, scientific journals, resistance pamphlets, and other types of open-source intelligence. Crossing paths with spying allies, enemy provocateurs, booksellers, and gossips, the librarians turned into intelligence agents, who used their professional skills in a dangerous information economy. Publications came to have value and meaning as intelligence. The OSS librarians confronted the problem of information overload as thousands of microfilm reels arrived in Washington. Through classifications, indexes, abstracts, and full-text translations, work done not by computers but by women and émigrés, they pioneered applied techniques of information science.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
Kathy Peiss
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Intelligence Gathering ◽  
Open Source Intelligence ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The collecting missions made an imprint on the postwar world of books and information. The OSS and military efforts to acquire open-source intelligence propelled advances in library and information science already underway. A number of those involved in wartime acquisitions became pioneers in this field. The program of acquisition offered a prototype for open-source intelligence gathering after the war. These missions also contributed to a growing orientation among American libraries toward internationalism, in which collecting foreign holdings was deemed essential to American power. For the most part, however, the collections themselves attracted little notice. With the Holocaust awareness of the late twentieth century, the acquisition of looted Jewish books was investigated by the Justice Department and President Bill Clinton’s Commission on Holocaust Assets. Looted and displaced books remain part of the unfinished business of World War II.

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) : retour aux sources

2021 ◽  
Vol n° 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Olivier Le Deuff ◽  
Rayya Roumanos
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Intelligence

scholarly journals Classificação analítico-sintética: reflexões teóricas e aplicações

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
Lígia Maria Arruda Café ◽  
Aline Bratfisch
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science

Trata de reflexões teóricas e aplicações práticas em modelos de organização do conhecimento do tipo analítico-sintético, disponíveis na literatura. Utiliza como fonte de coleta as bases de dados Wilson Library Literature and Information Science Full Text e Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), bem como as referências bibliográficas presentes nos documentos identificados nessas fontes. Define o período 1995 a 2005, priorizando tanto publicações nacionais como publicações estrangeiras.

Library and Information Science Source

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
Stephanie Luke
Keyword(s):  
Conference Proceedings ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Degree Program ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Library Staff

EBSCO's Library and Information Science Source (LISS) is a subscription database that was developed from the merger of EBSCO and H.W. Wilson in 2011. LISS features journals, periodicals, conference proceedings, monographs, and book reviews in the field of library and information studies. It includes full-text access to over 180 journals in both English and other languages. It also provides extensive indexing, a comprehensive thesaurus, and coverage from as early as the 1930s. The database's lack of OA content is at odds with library science's increasing commitment to freely accessible content. LISS will be of the most interest to institutions with large library staff as well as those that offer a degree program in library and information studies.

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