A Research Program in Archival Cybernetics
Resources compiled from Barbara Fisher & Frank B. Evans’ “Automation, Information, and the Administration of Archives and Manuscript Collections: Bibliographic Review”
American Documentation. Special issue, vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1962).
American Documentation Institute. Annual Review of Literature in Information Science and Technology. Washington, D.C.
American Scholar. "The Electronic Revolution." Special issue, vol. 35, no. 2 (Spring 1966).
American Standards Association. Basic Criteria for Indexes. New York: American Standards Association, 1959.
Ashby, W. Ross. An Introduction to Cybernetics. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1963.
Aslib Proceedings. Special automation issue, February 1964.
Atherton, J. "The Application of Mechanization to Manuscript Catalogue Production in the Public Archives of Canada." Canadian Archivist 1, no. 4 (1966): 3–7.
Balz, Charles F., and R. H. Stanwood, comps. Literature on Information Retrieval and Machine Translation. White Plains, N.Y.: IBM Corp., 1962.
Becker, Joseph, and Robert M. Hayes. Information Storage and Retrieval: Tools, Elements, Theories. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
Beer, Stafford. Cybernetics and Management. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1966.
Bello, Francis. "How To Cope With Information." Fortune 62 (September 1960): 162–67, 180–82.
Bernstein, Jeremy. The Analytical Engine. New York: Vintage Books, 1964.
Bibliography of Bibliographies on ADP. Special Report. U.S. Interagency Committee on ADP, Task Force on Bibliography. March 1962.
Bourne, Charles P. Bibliography on Mechanization of Information Retrieval. Menlo Park, Calif.: Stanford Research Institute, 1958–62.
———. "The Historical Development and Present State-of-the-Art of Mechanized Information Retrieval Systems." American Documentation 12 (April 1961): 108–10.
———. Methods of Information Handling. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1963.
Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." Atlantic Monthly 176 (July 1945): 101–8.
Campbell, Rita R. "Machine Retrieval in the Herbert Hoover Archives." American Archivist 29 (April 1966): 298–302.
Casey, R. S., et al., eds. Punched Cards: Their Application to Science and Industry. New York: Reinhold Publishing Co., 1958.
Clapp, Verner W. "Archivists and Bibliographical Control: A Librarian's Viewpoint." American Archivist 14 (October 1951): 305–11.
———. The Future of the Research Library. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964.
———. "Indexing and Abstracting: Recent Past and Signs of Future Development." College & Research Libraries 21 (July 1960): 197–206.
———. "Subject Controls—Nature and Levels of Controls." American Documentation 3 (January 1952): 11–15.
Cleverdon, C. W. "The Evaluation of Systems Used in Information Retrieval." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information, 1:687–98. Washington: National Academy of Sciences–National Research Council, 1958.
Coblans, Herbert. "New Methods and Techniques for Communication of Knowledge." Unesco Bulletin for Libraries 11 (July 1957): 154–75.
Crosson, Frederick J., and Kenneth M. Sayre, eds. Philosophy and Cybernetics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967.
Desmond, William H. Computers and Their Uses. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
Diebold, John. "Computers, Program Management and Foreign Affairs." Foreign Affairs 45, no. 1 (October 1966): 125–34.
Documentation Inc. The Logic and Mechanics of Storage and Retrieval Systems. Technical Report 14. Washington, D.C.: Documentation Inc., February 1956.
Dyke, Freeman H. Reference Manual on a Practical Approach to Information and Data Retrieval. Boston: Industrial Education Institute, 1963.
Faden, B. R. "Information Retrieval on Automatic Data Processing Equipment." Special Libraries 50 (April 1959): 162–65.
Francillon, Mary. "Information Retrieval: A View from the Reference Desk." Journal of Documentation 15, no. 4 (December 1959): 187–98.
"Freeing the Mind." London Times Literary Supplement, March–June 1962.
Gotlieb, C. C., and J. N. P. Hume. High-Speed Data Processing. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Greenburger, Martin, ed. Computers and the World of the Future. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1962.
Heiliger, Edward. "Application of Advanced Data Processing Techniques to University Library Procedures." Special Libraries 53 (October 1962): 472–75.
Henriques, Vico. An Orientation in Systems Analysis. NBS Report 6834. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1960.
Hensel, Evelyn. "Treatment of Nonbook Materials." Library Trends 2 (October 1953): 187–98.
Howerton, Paul W., ed. Vistas in Information. Vol. 1. Washington: Spartan Books, 1963.
Janaske, Paul C., ed. Information Handling and Science Information: A Selected Bibliography, 1957–1961. Washington: American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1962.
Kabk, J. "Mathematics and Complexity." London Times Literary Supplement, September 8, 1966.
Kent, Allen, ed. Information Retrieval and Machine Translation. Cleveland: Western Reserve University, 1960.
Laden, H. W., and T. R. Gildersleeve. Systems Design for Computer Applications. New York: Sperry Rand Corp., 1962.
Lawson, Murray J. "The Machine Age in Historical Research." American Archivist 11 (April 1948): 141–49.
Library Trends. Special automation issue, October 1956.
Library Trends. Special issue on microforms, January 1960.
Loftus, Helen E., and Allen Kent, comps. "Automation in the Library — An Annotated Bibliography." American Documentation 7 (April 1956): 110–26.
Machine Indexing: Progress and Problems. Proceedings of the Third Institute in Information Storage and Retrieval, February 1961. Washington: American University Center for Technology and Administration, 1961.
Meacham, Allan D., and Van B. Thompson, eds. Total Systems. Detroit: American Data Processing, Inc., 1962.
Melcher, Daniel. "Primer in Machine Information Storage and Retrieval." Library Journal 85 (March 1, 1960): 909–12.
Michael, Donald M. Cybernation: The Silent Conquest. Santa Barbara: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1962.
Mooers, Calvin. "Zatocoding Applied to Mechanical Organization of Knowledge." American Documentation 2 (January 1951): 20–32.
Navy Management Review. Special automation issue, January 1960.
Neuschel, Richard F. Management by System. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960.
"New Ways in History." London Times Literary Supplement, April, July, and September 1966.
New York Times. Editorial. Section E, p. 10. November 6, 1966.
Perry, James W., and Allen Kent. Machine Literature Searching. New York: Interscience Publications, 1956.
Philipson, Morris, ed. Automation: Implications for the Future. New York: Vintage Books, 1964.
Platnick, Phyllis. "Proposal for Automating a Manuscript Repository." In Progress in Information Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 1966 Annual Meeting of the American Documentation Institute. Santa Monica, Calif.: Adrianne Press, 1966.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science of the American Documentation Institute. Washington: Spartan Books, 1965.
Randall, G. E. "Practicality of Coordinate Indexing." College & Research Libraries 15 (October 1954): 417–20.
Rider, Fremont. The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library. New York: Hadham Press, 1944.
Rieger, Morris. "Archives and Automation." American Archivist 29 (January 1966): 109–11.
Rofes, W. L. Applying New Technology to Traditional Archival Problems. New York: IBM Archives Conference, 1965.
Schultheiss, Louis A. Advanced Data Processing in the Library. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1962.
Shelley, Fred. "The Presidential Papers Program in the Library of Congress." American Archivist 25 (October 1962): 429–32.
Shera, Jesse H., and Margaret E. Egan, eds. Bibliographic Organization: Papers Presented Before the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1951.
———. "Prolegomena to Bibliographic Control." Journal of Cataloging and Classification 5, no. 2 (Winter 1949): 17–19.
Simon, Herbert A. The Shape of Automation for Men and Management. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1965.
Stevens, Mary Elizabeth. Automatic Character Recognition. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, [1961–65].
———. Automatic Indexing: A State-of-the-Art Report. NBS Monograph 91. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1965.
———. Information Selection Systems Retrieving Replica Copies. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, [1961–65].
Tauber, M. F. The Subject Analysis of Library Materials. New York: Columbia University School of Library Science, 1953.
Taube, Mortimer. "Documentation, Information Retrieval, and Other New Techniques." Library Quarterly 31 (January 1961): 90–103.
———. Studies in Coordinate Indexing. 4 vols. Washington: Documentation Inc., 1953–57.
UNESCO. Information Processing: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing. Paris: UNESCO, 1959.
University of Notre Dame Press. Books Spring 1967. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967.
Vickery, Brian C. Classification and Indexing in Science. 2nd ed. London: Butterworths Scientific Publications, 1959.
Warheit, I. A. "The Librarian and the Development of Machines." Special Libraries 44 (September 1953): 272–73.
Wayne, Jean M., comp. Indexing With Emphasis on Its Technique: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Special Libraries Association, 1966.
Wegner, Peter. Introduction to System Programming. New York: Academic Press, 1964.
Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1948. 2nd ed., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1965.
Wiley Interscience Books, 1966. Catalog. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1966.
Wilds, Thomas. "Information Retrieval." American Archivist 24 (July 1961): 269–82.
Williams, William F. Principles of Automated Information Retrieval. Elmhurst, Ill.: The Business Press, 1965.
Wilson Library Bulletin. Special automation issue, May 1964.
Wood, Elizabeth Ingerman. "A New Method of Indexing." American Archivist 25 (July 1962): 331–40.
———. Report on Project History Retrieval. Philadelphia: Drexel Institute of Technology Graduate School of Library Science, 1966.
Youden, W. W., comp. Computer Literature Bibliography, 1946 to 1963. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, 1965.
American Documentation Institute. Annual Review of Literature in Information Science and Technology. Washington, D.C.
American Scholar. "The Electronic Revolution." Special issue, vol. 35, no. 2 (Spring 1966).
American Standards Association. Basic Criteria for Indexes. New York: American Standards Association, 1959.
Ashby, W. Ross. An Introduction to Cybernetics. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1963.
Aslib Proceedings. Special automation issue, February 1964.
Atherton, J. "The Application of Mechanization to Manuscript Catalogue Production in the Public Archives of Canada." Canadian Archivist 1, no. 4 (1966): 3–7.
Balz, Charles F., and R. H. Stanwood, comps. Literature on Information Retrieval and Machine Translation. White Plains, N.Y.: IBM Corp., 1962.
Becker, Joseph, and Robert M. Hayes. Information Storage and Retrieval: Tools, Elements, Theories. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
Beer, Stafford. Cybernetics and Management. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1966.
Bello, Francis. "How To Cope With Information." Fortune 62 (September 1960): 162–67, 180–82.
Bernstein, Jeremy. The Analytical Engine. New York: Vintage Books, 1964.
Bibliography of Bibliographies on ADP. Special Report. U.S. Interagency Committee on ADP, Task Force on Bibliography. March 1962.
Bourne, Charles P. Bibliography on Mechanization of Information Retrieval. Menlo Park, Calif.: Stanford Research Institute, 1958–62.
———. "The Historical Development and Present State-of-the-Art of Mechanized Information Retrieval Systems." American Documentation 12 (April 1961): 108–10.
———. Methods of Information Handling. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1963.
Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." Atlantic Monthly 176 (July 1945): 101–8.
Campbell, Rita R. "Machine Retrieval in the Herbert Hoover Archives." American Archivist 29 (April 1966): 298–302.
Casey, R. S., et al., eds. Punched Cards: Their Application to Science and Industry. New York: Reinhold Publishing Co., 1958.
Clapp, Verner W. "Archivists and Bibliographical Control: A Librarian's Viewpoint." American Archivist 14 (October 1951): 305–11.
———. The Future of the Research Library. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964.
———. "Indexing and Abstracting: Recent Past and Signs of Future Development." College & Research Libraries 21 (July 1960): 197–206.
———. "Subject Controls—Nature and Levels of Controls." American Documentation 3 (January 1952): 11–15.
Cleverdon, C. W. "The Evaluation of Systems Used in Information Retrieval." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information, 1:687–98. Washington: National Academy of Sciences–National Research Council, 1958.
Coblans, Herbert. "New Methods and Techniques for Communication of Knowledge." Unesco Bulletin for Libraries 11 (July 1957): 154–75.
Crosson, Frederick J., and Kenneth M. Sayre, eds. Philosophy and Cybernetics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967.
Desmond, William H. Computers and Their Uses. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
Diebold, John. "Computers, Program Management and Foreign Affairs." Foreign Affairs 45, no. 1 (October 1966): 125–34.
Documentation Inc. The Logic and Mechanics of Storage and Retrieval Systems. Technical Report 14. Washington, D.C.: Documentation Inc., February 1956.
Dyke, Freeman H. Reference Manual on a Practical Approach to Information and Data Retrieval. Boston: Industrial Education Institute, 1963.
Faden, B. R. "Information Retrieval on Automatic Data Processing Equipment." Special Libraries 50 (April 1959): 162–65.
Francillon, Mary. "Information Retrieval: A View from the Reference Desk." Journal of Documentation 15, no. 4 (December 1959): 187–98.
"Freeing the Mind." London Times Literary Supplement, March–June 1962.
Gotlieb, C. C., and J. N. P. Hume. High-Speed Data Processing. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
Greenburger, Martin, ed. Computers and the World of the Future. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1962.
Heiliger, Edward. "Application of Advanced Data Processing Techniques to University Library Procedures." Special Libraries 53 (October 1962): 472–75.
Henriques, Vico. An Orientation in Systems Analysis. NBS Report 6834. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1960.
Hensel, Evelyn. "Treatment of Nonbook Materials." Library Trends 2 (October 1953): 187–98.
Howerton, Paul W., ed. Vistas in Information. Vol. 1. Washington: Spartan Books, 1963.
Janaske, Paul C., ed. Information Handling and Science Information: A Selected Bibliography, 1957–1961. Washington: American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1962.
Kabk, J. "Mathematics and Complexity." London Times Literary Supplement, September 8, 1966.
Kent, Allen, ed. Information Retrieval and Machine Translation. Cleveland: Western Reserve University, 1960.
Laden, H. W., and T. R. Gildersleeve. Systems Design for Computer Applications. New York: Sperry Rand Corp., 1962.
Lawson, Murray J. "The Machine Age in Historical Research." American Archivist 11 (April 1948): 141–49.
Library Trends. Special automation issue, October 1956.
Library Trends. Special issue on microforms, January 1960.
Loftus, Helen E., and Allen Kent, comps. "Automation in the Library — An Annotated Bibliography." American Documentation 7 (April 1956): 110–26.
Machine Indexing: Progress and Problems. Proceedings of the Third Institute in Information Storage and Retrieval, February 1961. Washington: American University Center for Technology and Administration, 1961.
Meacham, Allan D., and Van B. Thompson, eds. Total Systems. Detroit: American Data Processing, Inc., 1962.
Melcher, Daniel. "Primer in Machine Information Storage and Retrieval." Library Journal 85 (March 1, 1960): 909–12.
Michael, Donald M. Cybernation: The Silent Conquest. Santa Barbara: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1962.
Mooers, Calvin. "Zatocoding Applied to Mechanical Organization of Knowledge." American Documentation 2 (January 1951): 20–32.
Navy Management Review. Special automation issue, January 1960.
Neuschel, Richard F. Management by System. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960.
"New Ways in History." London Times Literary Supplement, April, July, and September 1966.
New York Times. Editorial. Section E, p. 10. November 6, 1966.
Perry, James W., and Allen Kent. Machine Literature Searching. New York: Interscience Publications, 1956.
Philipson, Morris, ed. Automation: Implications for the Future. New York: Vintage Books, 1964.
Platnick, Phyllis. "Proposal for Automating a Manuscript Repository." In Progress in Information Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 1966 Annual Meeting of the American Documentation Institute. Santa Monica, Calif.: Adrianne Press, 1966.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science of the American Documentation Institute. Washington: Spartan Books, 1965.
Randall, G. E. "Practicality of Coordinate Indexing." College & Research Libraries 15 (October 1954): 417–20.
Rider, Fremont. The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library. New York: Hadham Press, 1944.
Rieger, Morris. "Archives and Automation." American Archivist 29 (January 1966): 109–11.
Rofes, W. L. Applying New Technology to Traditional Archival Problems. New York: IBM Archives Conference, 1965.
Schultheiss, Louis A. Advanced Data Processing in the Library. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1962.
Shelley, Fred. "The Presidential Papers Program in the Library of Congress." American Archivist 25 (October 1962): 429–32.
Shera, Jesse H., and Margaret E. Egan, eds. Bibliographic Organization: Papers Presented Before the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1951.
———. "Prolegomena to Bibliographic Control." Journal of Cataloging and Classification 5, no. 2 (Winter 1949): 17–19.
Simon, Herbert A. The Shape of Automation for Men and Management. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1965.
Stevens, Mary Elizabeth. Automatic Character Recognition. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, [1961–65].
———. Automatic Indexing: A State-of-the-Art Report. NBS Monograph 91. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1965.
———. Information Selection Systems Retrieving Replica Copies. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, [1961–65].
Tauber, M. F. The Subject Analysis of Library Materials. New York: Columbia University School of Library Science, 1953.
Taube, Mortimer. "Documentation, Information Retrieval, and Other New Techniques." Library Quarterly 31 (January 1961): 90–103.
———. Studies in Coordinate Indexing. 4 vols. Washington: Documentation Inc., 1953–57.
UNESCO. Information Processing: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing. Paris: UNESCO, 1959.
University of Notre Dame Press. Books Spring 1967. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967.
Vickery, Brian C. Classification and Indexing in Science. 2nd ed. London: Butterworths Scientific Publications, 1959.
Warheit, I. A. "The Librarian and the Development of Machines." Special Libraries 44 (September 1953): 272–73.
Wayne, Jean M., comp. Indexing With Emphasis on Its Technique: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Special Libraries Association, 1966.
Wegner, Peter. Introduction to System Programming. New York: Academic Press, 1964.
Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1948. 2nd ed., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1965.
Wiley Interscience Books, 1966. Catalog. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1966.
Wilds, Thomas. "Information Retrieval." American Archivist 24 (July 1961): 269–82.
Williams, William F. Principles of Automated Information Retrieval. Elmhurst, Ill.: The Business Press, 1965.
Wilson Library Bulletin. Special automation issue, May 1964.
Wood, Elizabeth Ingerman. "A New Method of Indexing." American Archivist 25 (July 1962): 331–40.
———. Report on Project History Retrieval. Philadelphia: Drexel Institute of Technology Graduate School of Library Science, 1966.
Youden, W. W., comp. Computer Literature Bibliography, 1946 to 1963. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, 1965.
Other sources
- Michael Buckland, Information and Society (MIT, 2017) and his earlier work on Suzanne Briet (e.g., Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine, Libraries Unlimited, 2006). Buckland is the major historian of pre-computational and early-computational documentation.
- Ronald E. Day, The Modern Invention of Information (Southern Illinois UP, 2001) and Indexing It All (MIT, 2014) — Day is doing exactly the kind of intellectual history you're proposing, with particular attention to the structuralist/post-structuralist dimension.
- W. Boyd Rayward, ed., European Modernism and the Information Society (Ashgate, 2008).
- Bernd Frohmann, Deflating Information (University of Toronto, 2004) — uses Wittgenstein and Foucault to reread the foundations of information studies, polemically.
For archival theory specifically:
- Richard J. Cox's various histories of American archival theory, especially American Archival Analysis (Scarecrow, 1990) and his work on archival education.
- Eric Ketelaar's essays on archival theory and structuralism, particularly "Tacit Narratives: The Meanings of Archives," Archival Science 1 (2001): 131–41 — this is where the post-structuralist turn explicitly invokes the structuralist inheritance it's revising.
- Terry Cook, "What Is Past Is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas since 1898," Archivaria 43 (1997): 17–63 — the standard genealogy, which you'll want to position yourself against.
- Marlene Manoff, "Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines," portal: Libraries and the Academy 4, no. 1 (2004): 9–25.
- Geoffrey Yeo's recent work on records and information, especially Records, Information and Data (Facet, 2018).