Resumen de A narrative on the codebreakers’ library at Bletchley Park

Matilde Fontanin

• This article presents the first results of an investigation into the reading library that was available to codebreakers and other staff at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, between 1940 and 1946. It describes the historical context and the first findings, underlining the equal status of all formats of documents as substitutes of lived experience, from material objects to oral history sources. The study was prompted by a research visit to Bletchley Park Museum in 2021. The story of this library, in the middle of wartime secrets, constitutes a case of library history and a pretext to reflect on the identity of the professions of librarians and other information workers, and their position in the larger history of computing and information science.