Challenging the British “Lion” of Science Information

This chapter contains sections titled: Too Much Hubris?, Toward Centralized Solutions—Finding Dewey but Not Money, Postcards over Paper—Addressing New Problems of Distribution, Storage, Retrieval, and Access, Money, Money, Money, at the Price of a Scientific Career, The Economics of Information, Compromises to Reduce Cost yet Maintain Quality, The Politics of Information, Devils in the Details—In Paris and in Dewey's Decimals, Out with the Old “Abstract” Ways, Says Herbert, Classification, Dewey Style: The Library of Congress Challenge and Herbert's Allegiance