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008			190719s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a2019015762
020			_a9780190944612
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050		4	_aD810 .C8 _bP457 2020
099			_a940.548 PEI
100	1		_aPeiss, Kathy Lee,
245	1	0	_aInformation hunters : _bwhen librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe / _cKathy Peiss.
246	3	0	_aWhen librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c[2020]
300			_axi, 277 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_a"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 gather 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 mineshafts. 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. military intelligence, librarians, archivists, Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Services."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xConfiscations and contributions _zEurope.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xMilitary intelligence _zUnited States.
650		0	_aBooks _zEurope _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aIntelligence service _zUnited States _xInformation services.
650		0	_aAcquisitions (Libraries) _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aCultural property _xProtection _zEurope _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aLibrarians _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xDestruction and pillage _zEurope.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bOffice of Strategic Services.
610	2	0	_aLibrary of Congress Mission to Germany.
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