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'''Robert Cedric Binkley''' was born December 10, 1897 in in Lititz, PA, but grew up in California. He studied at Stanford University 1915-1917, then served in the US Army Ambulance Corps during World War II. He was commissioned to collect ephemera published by delegations to the Paris Peace Conference and by wartime societies in Paris and London for the newly formed Hoover War Collection at Stanford. He served as reference librarian in its library while he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the response of European public opinion to Woodrow Wilson, using the materials he had helped to acquire in Europe as well as the Hoover's extensive collection of wartime newspapers. The rapid physical deterioration of these materials made him very interested in paper preservation. | |||
Binkley chaired the history department at the Women's College at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He died on April 11, 1940 in Clevelend. | |||
== Contributions == | == Contributions == | ||
*Binkley was influential in drawing attention to the need of paper preservation and promoting technical aids for scholarship, notably microfilm. | *Binkley was influential in drawing attention to the need of paper preservation and promoting technical aids for scholarship, notably microfilm. | ||
*Binkley helped found the [[ASIST|American Documentation Institute]]. | *Binkley helped found the [[ASIST|American Documentation Institute]] and was vice-president on its foundation in April, 1937. | ||
*He was appointed to the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. He served as secretary in 1930 and then as chair from 1932 until his death in 1940. | *He was appointed to the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. He served as secretary in 1930 and then as chair from 1932 until his death in 1940. | ||
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*"Robert C. Binkley." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Binkley] | *"Robert C. Binkley." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Binkley] | ||
*Farkas-Conn, Irene. ''From documentation to information science: The beginnings and early development of the American Documentation Institute—American Society for Information Science.'' New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200128134853/http://adi-asist.accessinn.com/] | *Farkas-Conn, Irene. ''From documentation to information science: The beginnings and early development of the American Documentation Institute—American Society for Information Science.'' New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200128134853/http://adi-asist.accessinn.com/] | ||
*Meckler, Alan M. ''Micropublishing : a history of scholarly micropublishing in America, 1938-1980''. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. | |||
Revision as of 20:18, 8 February 2025
Robert C. Binkley (1897–1940) was an American historian and microfilm advocate.
Life
Robert Cedric Binkley was born December 10, 1897 in in Lititz, PA, but grew up in California. He studied at Stanford University 1915-1917, then served in the US Army Ambulance Corps during World War II. He was commissioned to collect ephemera published by delegations to the Paris Peace Conference and by wartime societies in Paris and London for the newly formed Hoover War Collection at Stanford. He served as reference librarian in its library while he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the response of European public opinion to Woodrow Wilson, using the materials he had helped to acquire in Europe as well as the Hoover's extensive collection of wartime newspapers. The rapid physical deterioration of these materials made him very interested in paper preservation.
Binkley chaired the history department at the Women's College at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He died on April 11, 1940 in Clevelend.
Contributions
- Binkley was influential in drawing attention to the need of paper preservation and promoting technical aids for scholarship, notably microfilm.
- Binkley helped found the American Documentation Institute and was vice-president on its foundation in April, 1937.
- He was appointed to the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. He served as secretary in 1930 and then as chair from 1932 until his death in 1940.
Publications
Binkley published on a very wide range of topics. A list is in Zotero [1]. See also his Selected papers (1948).
- Selected papers, ed. with a biographical sketch and a bibliography by Max H. Fisch. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1948.
- Methods of reproducing research materials; a survey for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards, 1931.
- Manual on methods of reproducing research materials; a survey made for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards, 1936.
Further reading
- "Robert C. Binkley." Wikipedia [2]
- Farkas-Conn, Irene. From documentation to information science: The beginnings and early development of the American Documentation Institute—American Society for Information Science. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. [3]
- Meckler, Alan M. Micropublishing : a history of scholarly micropublishing in America, 1938-1980. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.