Background
Richards, Pamela Spence was born on June 2, 1941 in New York City. Daughter of Guy and Mary Frances (Lavine) Richards.
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This book describes how the growing awareness of the strategic importance of science in the 1930s caused the Allied and German leadership to build scientific information supply systems that survived into the postwar era. Using archival materials from five countries, Richards traces the successes and failures of these early scientific intelligence agencies. She focuses on the OSS unit supplying copy for the US government's wartime program to reprint current German scientific journals. She describes as well the methods used by the OSS to spirit individual journal issues from inside the Reich to microfilm squads on Germany's periphery, and gives special attention to the Allied quest for information about the mythical German atomic bomb. Richards also describes the supply system set up by the Nazi government, and how its increasing desperation for Allied scientific news led in the last year of the war to a submarine landing of Abwehr agents on the U.S. coast to microfilm periodicals at the New York Public Library. The final chapter of her book looks at how the wartime experience with scientific information influenced postwar patterns of scientific documentation and librarianship in each country.
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library and information studies educator
Richards, Pamela Spence was born on June 2, 1941 in New York City. Daughter of Guy and Mary Frances (Lavine) Richards.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1963. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1966. Master of Library Science, Columbia University, 1971.
DLS, Columbia University, 1979.
Administrative assistant German department, Columbia University, New York City, 1963-1969; research associate Graduate School Business, Columbia University, New York City, 1972-1976; reference library, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, New York, 1976, 77; instructor Graduate School Library. Svc., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1977-1979; assistant professor Graduate School Library. and Information Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1979-1984; associate professor School Communication, Information and Library. Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1984-1991; professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1991.
( This book describes how the growing awareness of the st...)
Member Freedom Support Act Fellowship Selection Committee, 1994. Member American Library Association, American Society Information Science (chairman international relations committee 1988-1991), Association for Library and Information Science Education (leader Citizen American Delegation to Russia, Lithuania and Czechoslovakia 1992), International Federation Library. Associations (chairman library history roundtable since 1995).
Married Jacobus W. Smit, June 6, 1969. Children: Guy, Marijke.