Serendipity strikes again. 😊. Fussler has been coming to my mind as I read Karp and Zamiska - used Fussler for my MLS thesis bibliometric study and I think I have his book Patterns in the Use of Libraries. And, I didn’t go into AI dominance / arms race in my Infophilia essay this week but The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and The Future of the West by Karp and Zamiska mentions the Manhattan Project quite a few times. I’ll just share a line by Niall Jackson on the book jacket: This [book] is a stirring manifesto for a new Manhattan Project in the AI age. Thank you!
The Shera article (which is in footnotes) was based on an interview of Fussler by Shera. The details on the Manhattan Project and Fussler's work are very complex. Fussler was one of my professors at the Graduate Library School. He never even alluded to the Manhattan Project. Glad to know he still resounds. Stagg Field where fission where the Regenstein Library was built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Graduate_Library_School
Haven’t returned to the Lib of Va for many years but I suppose the film readers would still be in use. Likewise the LDS genealogy libraries depend on microfilms. OTOH the military used fiche devices for a lot of data. I think those readers are now gone sold for pennies.
Dr Fussler must have been an interesting scholar given his accomplishments. University libraries are precious places. One of my professors often extracted interesting math from 1890 texts; plenty of issues from then still exist.
Most impressive guy. Did read the article, thanks. He was instrumental in my ability to read microfilm of the 1600’s property records. Of course I needed a librarian to decode ancient scripts to understand. English back not quite English today.
Wonder if those of the past envisioned the explosion of information today. Hard to sift through it all.
O glad the article worked. I just learned how to do that (insert article). My first librarian job I was in charge of microfilm. and my first published article was about organizing the different formats. Not much call for that anymore. Dr. Fussler was one of my professors.
Thank you for this. The man I thought was my father was at Los Alamos and was instrumental in the later development of the H bomb. Did this librarian last through that far?
Serendipity strikes again. 😊. Fussler has been coming to my mind as I read Karp and Zamiska - used Fussler for my MLS thesis bibliometric study and I think I have his book Patterns in the Use of Libraries. And, I didn’t go into AI dominance / arms race in my Infophilia essay this week but The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and The Future of the West by Karp and Zamiska mentions the Manhattan Project quite a few times. I’ll just share a line by Niall Jackson on the book jacket: This [book] is a stirring manifesto for a new Manhattan Project in the AI age. Thank you!
The Shera article (which is in footnotes) was based on an interview of Fussler by Shera. The details on the Manhattan Project and Fussler's work are very complex. Fussler was one of my professors at the Graduate Library School. He never even alluded to the Manhattan Project. Glad to know he still resounds. Stagg Field where fission where the Regenstein Library was built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Graduate_Library_School
Haven’t returned to the Lib of Va for many years but I suppose the film readers would still be in use. Likewise the LDS genealogy libraries depend on microfilms. OTOH the military used fiche devices for a lot of data. I think those readers are now gone sold for pennies.
Dr Fussler must have been an interesting scholar given his accomplishments. University libraries are precious places. One of my professors often extracted interesting math from 1890 texts; plenty of issues from then still exist.
Most impressive guy. Did read the article, thanks. He was instrumental in my ability to read microfilm of the 1600’s property records. Of course I needed a librarian to decode ancient scripts to understand. English back not quite English today.
Wonder if those of the past envisioned the explosion of information today. Hard to sift through it all.
O glad the article worked. I just learned how to do that (insert article). My first librarian job I was in charge of microfilm. and my first published article was about organizing the different formats. Not much call for that anymore. Dr. Fussler was one of my professors.
Thank you for this. The man I thought was my father was at Los Alamos and was instrumental in the later development of the H bomb. Did this librarian last through that far?
I think he left after Hiroshima and went back to being the director of the University of Chicago libraries.
I put a pdf of the article about Fussler in the footnotes which gives lots more detail. can you open it?
Yes. My other dad started after that.