Kathy Peiss, information hunters.

Oppenheim, Charles

Abstract

This is a book review of Kathy Peiss, Information hunters by Charles Oppenheim. The author is Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania; her previous books have been about US social history. So why has she now written about, as the book’s subtitle puts it, 'when librarians, soldiers and spies banded together in World War 2 Europe’? As she makes clear, the reason is that she became intrigued by the story of her father, Reuben Peiss and his activities during the Second World War. The result is a fascinating (if slightly flawed) his-tory of how librarians were co-opted into the US war effort – indeed, arguably they were not simply co-opted but rather pushed hard for their involvement.

Citation

OPPENHEIM, C. 2022. Kathy Peiss, information hunters. Journal of librarianship and information science [online], 54(1), page 159. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000621997020

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 2, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Mar 2, 2021
• Publication Date: Mar 31, 2022
• Deposit Date: Mar 8, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 8, 2021
• Journal: Journal of librarianship and information science
• Print ISSN: 0961-0006
• Electronic ISSN: 1741-6477
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 159
• Item Discussed: PEISS, K. 2020. Information hunters. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190944612.
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000621997020
• Keywords: Librarians; Intelligence agencies; Second World War; US war effort; Microfilming; Cataloguing; Indexing
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1254502