Architects Of Memory: Information and Rhetoric In A Networked Archival Age

222 Pages·2020·7.325 MB·English

by  Nathan R. Johnson

ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY
Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
Series Editor
John Louis Lucaites
Editorial Board
Jeffrey A. Bennett
Carole Blair
Joshua Gunn
Robert Hariman
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Claire Sisco King
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Toby Miller
Phaedra C. Pezzullo
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ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY
Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age
NATHAN R. JOHNSON
The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487- 0380
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Copyright © 2020 by Nathan R. Johnson
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ISBN: 978- 0- 8173- 2060- 7
E- ISBN: 978- 0- 8173- 9296- 3
For Meredith

CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 Building Memory’s Infrastructure 13
2 A Universal Memory Machine 29
Intermezzo Exorcising the Library Spirit: Library Labor
as a Technê of Memory 47
3 Hybrid Memory Labor 55
Intermezzo Calvin Mooers’s Zatocodes 77
4 Memory Conflicts 86
Intermezzo Dorothy Crosland’s Book Truck 117
5 Memory’s Coin 124
6 Memory’s Infrastructure 150
Notes 157
References 181
Index 199

FIGURES
1. Mario Goglia’s chart, produced for the Georgia Tech Conferences
on Training Science Information Specialists 67
2. Layout of an early punched card used for chemistry 79
3. A 1948 image showcasing the Zator Selector 80
4. A diagram of a Zatocard drawn by Calvin Mooers 82
5. An image from the patent for David Edgar Hunter’s 1899
Traveling Book Cart 119
6. An image from the patent for Fremont Rider’s 1945 Book Truck 120