This is a bibliographic listing of papers (and a few books) published or written between the years 1959-1993, with the majority of the papers dated after 1970. The title of this bibliography refers to the original home, in a metal filing cabinet, located at first in Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS) Dr. Warfield's office IN Thompson Hall at George Mason University. In 1987 the filing cabinet was moved to Reserve Book Room at George Mason University's Fenwick Library. While at Fenwick Library, papers from the collection were called the "IASIS File" and were available to the public on Interlibrary Loan. The file was maintained for use of students and for visiting researchers. The file eventually contained 598 separate titles, of which 127 titles were authored or co-authored by Warfield. The file cabinet collection consisted of publisher's reprints, research reports and manuscripts collected by John Warfield over a 20 year period. The collection reflected Warfield's developing studies of complexity, and his desire to document and record the use of Interpretive Structural Modeling and Interactive Management as tools for dealing with complexity. The IASIS File as a textual Bibliography existed in several versions. It began in 1990, simply a spiral-bound office copy distributed to colleagues on request. It was developed by Rose Warfield (Volunteer Secretary) who felt there should be some sort of index for the filing cabinet. Although John Warfield collected the papers, HE DID NOT WRITE ANY OF THE ANNOTATIONS, nor did he ever cull through the papers to determine which ones were of premium value, and which ones might be discarded. Some papers are much more significant than others. Rose Warfield and other IASIS secretaries wrote annotations for the collection and thought up key words, because no one else had time to do it. There were approximately five subsequent printings, each involving changes in front matter, and occasionally additions to the text.
1991 Printing: The first version printed under the IASIS logo was issued in 1991, under the title: "The IASIS File: a Summary of File Contents on Hold at the Reserve Desk of the Fenwick Library at George Mason University." 1993 Printing: In 1993, after several revisions, Rose got the PHOTOCOPIED document BOUND in hard cover, by IASIS, as a "First edition." Hardbound copies of this first edition were donated to Fenwick Library, to Defense Systems Management College at Fort Belvoir and also to the Library of Congress Washington D.C. , where it was cataloged with the LC card Number LC 93-81211
1994 Printing: A major revision came in early 1994, when approximately 100 titles were added, prior to shipping the entire collection to Mexico, where a more receptive climate for their study and use was in evidence. [John Warfield donated them to Roxana Cardena's department at ITESM, letter of shipment is in CORRESPONDENCE FOLDER IN FILENAME "Warfield to Carolos Villanova June 1994"]. Because of the many added titles, Rose decided to dub the 1994 printing a "Second revised edition", and AGAIN got the PHOTOCOPIED document BOUND, in hard cover, by IASIS. (Actually, the IASIS office account, at GMU paid only for the photocopying, Rose spent Warfield personal funds to pay the bookbinder for ten hardcover copies of this second edition). Hardbound copies of the 1994 version were donated to five libraries: Iowa State University, Ames, IA; University of Texas at Austin; David Acker Library at Defense Systems Management College, Fort Belvoir,VA; ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Monterrey, Mexico; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The remaining copies were distributed to colleagues over the years. I think Scott Staley has one, and Roxana, and also Walter Bogan and Aleco Christakis, to whom the 1994 edition was formally dedicated, in a special dedication page at front of the volume. 1995 Printing: A yet later version was the May, 1995 printing, when a new preface was written and the 1994 preface was discarded. 1996 Printing: We also made a 1996 printing, but nothing substantially was changed. The LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG NUMBER FOR THIS BOOK: Z7671 .W372 1994. IT HAS THE LCCN NUMBER: 93-81211 R95. and Call No: HD5650.W37 1994 =======================
Post note annotation: I can't say this book was actually published, At first it was just a report, until I just declared it a book and sent it to Library of Congress for cataloging. But there isn't even a copyright statement on the verso page or anywhere else that I can see, also Institute for Advanced Study was hardly a publishing house. Offhand, I would say it is more "unpublished" than not. Bill Livingston ripped off the entire document when I sent him an email file copy of it; he put it on his web page for a long time but it isn't there any more, nor is his web page. Later I think it was on other web pages intemittently. I haven't kept track. I always regretted that JohnWarfield never bothered to go through it and discard the junk articles which really didn't fit the title, they just happened to be in the filing cabinet at the time, AND SOME OF THEM WERE SAVED TO DEMONSTRATE PAPERS GIVING AN INCOMPETENT VIEW OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE. It was a mishmash collection if there ever was one, but there were some papers in there that were nowhere else, and gone forever now, since we shipped the entire collection to Mexico. Here in my apartment, there remains one hard cover copy of The IASIS File 1994 edition on top wall cupboard shelf, and one 1994 soft cover and one 1993 spiral-bound copy inside the little wood cupboard holding JohnWarfield's publications. R.W. 21 May 21, 2012 -------
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