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;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Virtual:ge o:38.8122835,-77.1171899 GEO:38.8122835;-77.1171899 DESCRIPTION:An unlikely band of information hunters—librarians\, ar chivists\, and scholars—came together during World War II\, their w ar effort centered on collecting books and documents..\nhttps://alexandria .libnet.info/event/4517408 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In Infor mation Hunters: When Librarians\, Soldiers\, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe\, cultural historian Kathy Peiss dis cusses how book and document collecting became part of the new apparatus o f intelligence and national security\, military planning\, and postwar rec onstruction. She focuses on ordinary Americans who found themselves in ext raordinary situations\, making decisions on the ground to acquire sources that would be useful in war zones and on the home front. Librarians&rsquo\ ; and scholars&rsquo\; skills\, expertise\, and aspirations aligned closel y with American military and political objectives. Their activities helped transform American research libraries into great international repositori es\, shaped policies toward cultural heritage\, and spurred the developmen t of information science.
\nKathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette
P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania
. Her research and teaching center on 20th century U.S. social\, cultural\
, and gender history. She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working W
omen and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986)\, Hope in
a Jar: The Making of America&rsquo\;s Beauty Culture (1998)\, and