Information Processing Glossaries
Scope and Content Note
Glossaries on various aspects of information processing collected by the Charles Babbage Institute. The finding aid is arranged alphabetically by corporate name or author's surname.
Dates
- 1943-1991
Creator
- Charles Babbage Institute (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Access to materials:
Access to the collection is unrestricted.
Copyright:
All materials in the collection are covered by a prior copyright. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Historical Note
From the early 1950s, companies and professional organizations began to create taxonomies to standardize the language used to describe computing and software. These reference works were most often in the form of glossaries.
Extent
2 boxes (1.5 cubic feet)
Abstract
Contains glossaries on various aspects of information processing including computers, programming languages, data processing, standards, control computers, and graphics.
Acquisition:
The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by various institutions, corporations and individuals in numerous accessions.
- Automatic control -- Dictionaries. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Computer graphics -- Dictionaries. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Computers -- Dictionaries. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Electronic data processing -- Dictionaries -- English. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Electronic data processing -- Dictionaries -- French. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Electronic data processing -- Dictionaries -- Spanish. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Electronic data processing -- Standards -- Dictionaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Programming languages (Electronic computers) -- Dictionaries. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Information Processing Glossaries, 1943-1991. Finding Aid.
- Author
- Prepared by Bruce H. Bruemmer and Kevin D. Corbitt, February 1997.
- Date
- July 2005
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Charles Babbage Institute Archives Collecting Area
Elmer L. Andersen Library
222 - 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455
612-624-5050
cbi@umn.edu
