A fascinating and illuminating tribute to a great mind and a crucial period in the history of information science and technology.
Preface Origins University Studies Berlin Sophie Posniak Graphics The Goldberg Wedge The Great War Ice and the Kinamo The Goldberg Condition Microdots Zeiss Ikon and the Contax Television The 1931 Congress The Statistical Machine Ludwig, Killinger and Mutschmann Paris Palestine Military Needs The Microfilm Rapid Selector Finale After Goldberg Goldberg in Retrospect Appendix A: Texts in German Appendix B: Biographical Sources Appendix C: Goldberg Patents Bibliography of Emanuel Goldberg's Writings General Bibliography Index
Michael Buckland is Emeritus Professor, School of Information Management and Systems, and Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, at the University of California, Berkeley. He has degrees in History from Oxford and Librarianship from Sheffield University. He has been Dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at Berkeley and President of the American Society for Information Science. Previous books include Library Services in Theory and Context (1983) and Information and Information Systems (Praeger, 1991).
[P]rovides a detailed history of the development of the film
industry in Germany and in Europe as it pertains to photography,
cinema, and microfilm. In particular, it covers much of the history
of Zeiss Ikon, which Goldberg helped to found and where he worked
until forced to flee Nazi Germany. The book provides a detailed
picture of the major figures in the industry and extensive
discussion of how many film technologies were developed and how
they function. With more than 100 pages of reference sources
listed, it is an invaluable resource on the history of film
technology. It is an easy read and is impressively researched.
*Choice*
More than a tribute or a history of a technology, this book is
perhaps best read as a cultural history of sorts: the life story of
a man and the technologies he helped to create and how both were
profoundly shaped by the political and social forces of the time.
The lesson implicit in Buckland's revealing narrative is that the
man himself can be understood only in the context in which he was
forgotten-and it is a story well worth remembering.
*Libraries & the Cultural Record*
The story of Emanuel Goldberg offers insights into ways of handling
documentary information, and still more insights into the tragic
effects that social and political developments can have on our
lives. We can now honour him as he deserves. And thank Michael
Buckland for making this possible.
*Journal of Librarianship and Information Science*
[P]rofessor Buckland's enormous achievement in bringing to light
the career of a great scientist who, like many of his German and
foreign colleagues, fell victim to the nationalistic madness that
virtually destroyed German culture and science between 1933 and
1945. Emanuel Goldberg has at last received the understanding and
recognition that his inventive genius deserved but were not
possible in his lifetime. Recommended for the libraries of schools
of library and information science, for schools with graduate
programs in photographic technology, and for all scholars and
students of the history of library technology.
*College & Research Libraries*
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