Architects Of Memory: Information and Rhetoric In A Networked Archival Age PDF
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ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Series Editor John Louis Lucaites Editorial Board Jeffrey A. Bennett Carole Blair Joshua Gunn Robert Hariman Debra Hawhee Claire Sisco King Steven Mailloux Raymie E. McKerrow Toby Miller Phaedra C. Pezzullo Austin Sarat Janet Staiger Barbie Zelizer 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 uapress.ua.edu Copyright © 2020 by Nathan R. Johnson All rights reserved. Inquiries about reproducing material from this work should be ad- dressed to the University of Alabama Press. Typeface: Minion Pro Cover design: Mary- Frances Burt / Burt&Burt Cataloging- in- Publication data is available from the Library of Congress. 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
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