Colin B. Burke is an historian who has researched and published on the history of higher education, quantitative methods in history, American political history, the history of computers, the history of information, the history of nonprofit organizations, and intelligence history.Among his honors, he has been the Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, a Research Fellow at the Yale PONPO Center, the Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency, a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw during the year when Poland ousted the Communists.

• Part One: Information at War with Hitler and Tojo, Then with StalinChapter 1 The OSS’ Unusual LibrariansChapter 2 Forging an Intelligence SystemChapter 3 A New Information CultureChapter 4 Microfilm at the OSS, for War and ProfitChapter 5 One System for All IntelligenceChapter 6 CIA’s Classification and Automation BattlesPart Two: Cold War Information Politics and LivesChapter 7 Ideology and Science Information PolicyChapter 8 The CIA’s Librarians Under FireChapter 9 Library and Classification Revolutions? SAL, Semantic Factors, the Luhn ScannerChapter 10 Automation Dreams, Minicard Chapter 11 The CIA vs. the LibrariansChapter 12 From Microfilm to ComputersChapter 13 Automatic Translation’s WoesChapter 14 A Cold War Information Career Part Three: Information’s Troubled Golden Age to the Era of Open AccessChapter 15 Sputnik’s New Politics of InformationChapter 16 An American Information Century?Chapter 17 The Plural Information System Survives, With DifficultyChapter 18 A New Information Era: The American Information Century’s ChallengersChapter 19 Another Serials Crisis, Open Access, the Return of Ideology

Burke is one of our most accomplished interpreters of the history of information and of the technological apparatuses that our best minds envisioned could manage its growth and access. America's Information Wars is well researched and crafted with the sure hand of a master historian. Anyone who wants to understand how America coped with the information explosion of the latter half of the twentieth century will be well served by Burke's latest book.

Colin B. Burke is an historian who has researched and published on the history of higher education, quantitative methods in history, American political history, the history of computers, the history of information, the history of nonprofit organizations, and intelligence history.Among his honors, he has been the Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, a Research Fellow at the Yale PONPO Center, the Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency, a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw during the year when Poland ousted the Communists.

• Part One: Information at War with Hitler and Tojo, Then with StalinChapter 1 The OSS’ Unusual LibrariansChapter 2 Forging an Intelligence SystemChapter 3 A New Information CultureChapter 4 Microfilm at the OSS, for War and ProfitChapter 5 One System for All IntelligenceChapter 6 CIA’s Classification and Automation BattlesPart Two: Cold War Information Politics and LivesChapter 7 Ideology and Science Information PolicyChapter 8 The CIA’s Librarians Under FireChapter 9 Library and Classification Revolutions? SAL, Semantic Factors, the Luhn ScannerChapter 10 Automation Dreams, Minicard Chapter 11 The CIA vs. the LibrariansChapter 12 From Microfilm to ComputersChapter 13 Automatic Translation’s WoesChapter 14 A Cold War Information Career Part Three: Information’s Troubled Golden Age to the Era of Open AccessChapter 15 Sputnik’s New Politics of InformationChapter 16 An American Information Century?Chapter 17 The Plural Information System Survives, With DifficultyChapter 18 A New Information Era: The American Information Century’s ChallengersChapter 19 Another Serials Crisis, Open Access, the Return of Ideology

Burke is one of our most accomplished interpreters of the history of information and of the technological apparatuses that our best minds envisioned could manage its growth and access. America's Information Wars is well researched and crafted with the sure hand of a master historian. Anyone who wants to understand how America coped with the information explosion of the latter half of the twentieth century will be well served by Burke's latest book.

Colin B. Burke is an historian who has researched and published on the history of higher education, quantitative methods in history, American political history, the history of computers, the history of information, the history of nonprofit organizations, and intelligence history.Among his honors, he has been the Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, a Research Fellow at the Yale PONPO Center, the Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency, a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Scholar in Warsaw during the year when Poland ousted the Communists.

• Part One: Information at War with Hitler and Tojo, Then with StalinChapter 1 The OSS’ Unusual LibrariansChapter 2 Forging an Intelligence SystemChapter 3 A New Information CultureChapter 4 Microfilm at the OSS, for War and ProfitChapter 5 One System for All IntelligenceChapter 6 CIA’s Classification and Automation BattlesPart Two: Cold War Information Politics and LivesChapter 7 Ideology and Science Information PolicyChapter 8 The CIA’s Librarians Under FireChapter 9 Library and Classification Revolutions? SAL, Semantic Factors, the Luhn ScannerChapter 10 Automation Dreams, Minicard Chapter 11 The CIA vs. the LibrariansChapter 12 From Microfilm to ComputersChapter 13 Automatic Translation’s WoesChapter 14 A Cold War Information Career Part Three: Information’s Troubled Golden Age to the Era of Open AccessChapter 15 Sputnik’s New Politics of InformationChapter 16 An American Information Century?Chapter 17 The Plural Information System Survives, With DifficultyChapter 18 A New Information Era: The American Information Century’s ChallengersChapter 19 Another Serials Crisis, Open Access, the Return of Ideology

Burke is one of our most accomplished interpreters of the history of information and of the technological apparatuses that our best minds envisioned could manage its growth and access. America's Information Wars is well researched and crafted with the sure hand of a master historian. Anyone who wants to understand how America coped with the information explosion of the latter half of the twentieth century will be well served by Burke's latest book.