Preprint Libraries and the History of Information Infrastructure in Physics

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  • Tuesdays 10 o’clock at the CERN library

    Tuesdays 10 o’clock was an important time for physicists working at CERN. Every week at that time, starting in the early 1960s, a ritual would play out that also structured much of the local research community’s habits of acquiring new information of what was happening in high-energy physics and related fields. As one informant who…

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