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  title info:
    title: Information hunters
    sub title: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
  name:
    name part: Peiss, Kathy Lee
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools and gathered together countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered books, engaged in restitution and participated in the denazification of book collections. Information Hunters explores what collecting meant to the men and women who embarked on these missions, and how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on books and documents. It uncovers the worlds of collecting, in spy-ridden Stockholm and Lisbon, in liberated Paris and devastated Berlin and in German caves and mine shafts. The wartime collecting missions had lasting effects. They intensified the relationship between libraries and academic institutions, on the one hand, and the government and military, on the other. Book and document acquisition became part of the apparatus of national security, military planning and postwar reconstruction. These efforts also spurred the development of information science and boosted research libraries' ambitions to be great national repositories for research and the dissemination of knowledge that would support American global leadership, politically and intellectually.
  table of contents: The country of the mind must also attack -- Librarians and collectors go to war -- The wild scramble for documents -- Acquisitions on a grand scale -- Fugitive records of war -- Book burning, American style -- Not a library, but a large depot of loot.
  note: Kathy Peiss.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Office of Strategic Services.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Library of Congress Mission to Germany.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Confiscations and contributions
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Military intelligence
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Books
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Intelligence service
    geographic: United States
    topic: Information services
  subject:
    topic: Acquisitions (Libraries)
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Cultural property
    topic: Protection
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Librarians
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Destruction and pillage
    geographic: Europe
  classification: D810.C8 P45 2020
  classification: 940.54/8673094
  identifier: 9780190944612
  identifier: 0190944617
  identifier: 9780190944636
  identifier: 9780190944629
  identifier: 2019015762
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190719
    record change date: 20200729072417.0
    record identifier: in00004095727