Robert C. Binkley

Robert C. Binkley (1897–1940) was an American historian and microfilm advocate.

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.
• 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]