The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

Soil shows us how this administrator and accountant, "with the resources of a nation-state at his disposal . . . amassed enormous libraries and state, diplomatic, industrial, colonial, and naval archives; hired researchers and archival teams; founded scientific academies and journals; ran a pub...

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Veröffentlicht in:Libraries & the Cultural Record 2010, Vol.45 (3), p.372-374
1. Verfasser: Bodemer, Brett B.
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Archives & records
Diplomatic facilities
France
German language
Government information
History
Information management
Intelligence
Libraries
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Zusammenfassung:Soil shows us how this administrator and accountant, "with the resources of a nation-state at his disposal . . . amassed enormous libraries and state, diplomatic, industrial, colonial, and naval archives; hired researchers and archival teams; founded scientific academies and journals; ran a publishing house; and managed an international network of scholars" (7). The German polymath Gottfried Leibniz, when appointed head librarian in Wolfenbüttel, visited Colbert's head librarian, Etienne Baluze, to learn his methods of filing, cataloging, and document retrieval.
ISSN:1932-4855
1932-9555
2164-8034
1932-9555
2166-3033
DOI:10.1353/lac.2010.0000