Crisis in the information age? : how the information explosion threatened science, democracy, the library, and the human body, 1945-1999

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Abstract = ⅱ
• Preface = ⅴ
• Acknowledgements = ⅶ
• INTRODUCTION = 1
• Metaphors, Meanings, and Myths of the Information Explosion = 10
• A Multidisciplinary Information Problem = 14
• The Mystery of Information = 19
• A Theory of Crisis = 24
• Methodology = 28
• Argument and Outline = 34
• PART Ⅰ : CHRONOLOGY OF THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION = 46
• CHAPTER 1 : The Myth of Immediacy － The Accumulation of Information to 1945 = 50
• The Absence of Analysis = 51
• A Body of Knowledge Begins to Accumulate, 1$$5^{th}$$ Century = 57
• The Birth of the Author and Reader, 1$$5^{th}$$ to 1$$7^{th}$$ Centuries = 64
• The Establishment of an Information Network, 1$$7^{th}$$ to 1$$9^{th}$$ Centuries = 67
• Professional Specialization, 1$$9^{th}$$ to 2$$0^{th}$$ Centuries = 74
• CHAPTER 2 : The Information Waterscape － Metaphor and Control Since 1945 = 88
• Metaphor and the Information Explosion = 90
• Information Out-of-Control : Post 1945 = 97
• The Genesis of the Information Crisis － Vannevar Bush = 100
• The Politics of Information － Norbert Wiener = 108
• Water as a Control Metaphor in the Cold War = 112
• Water as a Control Metaphor in the Late 2$$0^{th}$$ Century = 117
• PART Ⅱ : CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION = 127
• CHAPTER 3 : Exponentiation － Perceptions of the Information Crisis = 130
• The Intellectual's Reaction to the Crisis = 132
• The Scientists = 134
• The Humanists = 139
• The Medical Practitioners = 144
• The Lawyers = 148
• The Engineers = 152
• The Executives = 155
• The Government Officials = 158
• The Military = 165
• The Lay Response = 167
• Exponential Growth Analyzed － Derek J. de Solla Price = 171
• CHAPTER 4 : Specialization － An Intellectual Tower of Babel = 176
• Building the Tower － Specialization Prior to World War Ⅱ = 178
• The Tower Crashes － Overspecialization after World War Ⅱ = 183
• Conformity, Automation, and the Organization Man = 188
• The AT&T Liberal Arts Program = 194
• Evaluating the Humanities = 201
• The Tower Remains in Pieces － The AT&T Program Closes Its Doors = 205
• PART Ⅲ : THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONS AND THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION = 215
• CHAPTER 5 : Documentation Rising － The Mechanization of Information Retrieval = 218
• The Birth of Documentation in Belgium = 221
• From Belgium to America = 230
• The Center for Documentation and Communication Research = 240
• Founding the CDCR = 241
• Searching Information = 243
• Information Technology = 245
• Selling Information = 247
• Funding Information = 256
• The CDCR'S Specialized Information Projects = 260
• The American Society for Metals = 261
• Biomedical Documentation Projects = 266
• CHAPTER 6 : Librarianship Questioned － Marginalizing the Librarian = 270
• The Engineer and the Librarian in Hollywood = 271
• The Library and Librarian as Source of the Information Crisis = 275
• In Fear of Computers － The Librarian's Reaction to Computing = 291
• The Special Librarians and the Weinberg Report = 295
• Mooers'Law － The Mathematician and the Library Community = 299
• Institutional Conflict － The CDCR and the Library School = 305
• The CDCR Closes Its Doors = 311
• The Information Scientist at Millennium's End = 316
• PART Ⅳ : INTERPRETATIONS OF THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION = 325
• CHAPTER 7 : The Political Interpretation － The Cold War and the Information Crisis = 329
• An Information Crisis of Their Own － The Soviet Union = 337
• Science in the Soviet Union = 338
• VINITI － The Red Information Service = 344
• From Too Little to Too Much = 350
• Cybernetics and Soviet Computing = 354
• The Cold War Impact on the U.S. Information Crisis = 358
• The Scientist and Engineer as Political Hero = 359
• Documentalists and the Cold War = 363
• Anxiety Over Soviet Scientific and Technical Advancement = 366
• An American Documentalist in Moscow = 373
• The Role of Soviet Competition for Professional Development = 381
• CHAPTER 8 : The Mythical Interpretation － Humanists and the Information Crisis = 385
• The Myth of Historical Discontinuity － The 1945 Break Point = 388
• Classic Fables of the Information Crisis = 396
• Boolean Algebra and Duplicated Research = 399
• The Myth of the Monk = 402
• Critics of the Information Crisis = 407
• The Information Crisis as Historical Constant = 408
• The Information Crisis as Sales Pitch = 410
• The Information Crisis as Cold War Construct = 417
• CHAPTER 9 : Conclusion － From the Cold War to the Human Body = 426
• Cyberspace and the Body = 430
• Information Overload and the Body = 434
• A Mythical Conclusion = 444
• A Political Conclusion = 452
• A Personal Conclusion = 456
• ILLUSTRATIONS = 460
• TABLES = 477
• BIBLIOGRAPHY = 491