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The history of the computer, and of the industry it spawned, is the latest entrant into the field of historical studies. Scholars beginning to turn their attention to the subject of computing need James Cortada's
Archives of Data Procesing History as a brief introduction to sources immediately available for investigation. Each essay provides an overview of a major government, academic, or industrial archival collection dealing with the history of computing, the industry, and its leaders and is written by the archivist/historian who has worked with or is responsible for the collection.
The archives give practical information on hours, organization, contacts, telephone numbers, survey of contents, and assessments of the historical significance of the collections and their institutions. Reference and business librarians will definitely want to add this volume to their collections. Those interested in the history of technology, the business history of the industry, and the history of major institutions will want to consult it.
List of contents
Preface
U.S. National Archives
National Museum of American History
Library of Congress
The Charles Babbage Institute: The Center for the History of Information Processing, University of Minnesota
Massachussets Institute of Technology, Institute Archives and Special Collections and the MIT Museum
Harvard University Archives
University of Illinois Archives
Dartmouth College
The Hagley Museum and Library
International Business Machines (IBM) Archives
Unisys Archives
Sources on the History of Computing: Stanford University and the Silicon Valley
Bibliographic Essay on U.S. Archival Holdings
Index
About the author
JAMES W. CORTADA is a Marketing Branch Manager for IBM USA in Madison, Wisconsin. This book rounds out a broad project involving a bibliography entitled
An Annotated Bibliography on the History of Data Processing (Greenwood Press, 1983), and a three-volume
Historical Dictionary of Data Processing (Greenwood Press, 1987) designed as reference materials for the professional historian.
