United States National Bureau of Standards collection of computer literature
Scope and Content Note
Collection contains reports, manuals and publications from corporations, government agencies, and academic computing centers covering a broad range of computer-related topics. The collection only contains a few documents that predate 1962.
Dates
- 1956-1978
- (bulk: 1962-1978)
Creator
- United States. National Bureau of Standards (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
After World War II the United States National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was charged with the task of following developments in computing. In response, NBS began to index and abstract books, journals, reports and other literature covering a broad range of computer-related topics beginning in the mid-1940s. Eventually the enormity of the task forced NBS to abandon this work in 1978.
Extent
731 boxes (241.25 cubic feet)
Abstract
Collection contains reports, manuals and publications from corporations, government agencies, and academic computing centers covering a broad range of computer-related topics.
Acquisition:
The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by the National Bureau of Standards in 1987.
- Computer industry -- History -- Sources Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Computers -- History -- Sources Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Information storage and retrieval systems -- History -- Sources. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Machine translating -- History -- Sources. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- United States National Bureau of Standards Collection of Computer Literature, 1956-1978. Finding Aid.
- Author
- Prepared by Bruce H. Bruemmer, Kevin D. Corbitt, Peter Stramoski, Heather A. Beaton, Caroline Gasser, Pradeep Khakural, et al., August 1995; revised Carrie Seib and Amanda Schwartze, February 2003.
- Date
- June 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- 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
