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Andrew Aines (1913-1996) was a US science and technical information policy advocate.

Andrew Aines

Andrew Adolphe Aines was born in 1913 and died in September of 1996.

Career

Aines worked as Assistant manager, George James Co. 1938-41, joined the Army in 1942 and advanced through grades to Colonel.

In 1963, he was assigned to Lieutenant General Ely, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, ODDR & E, who also served as Chairman, Committee for Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) of the Federal Council for Science and Technology (FCST). Aines served as the Executive Secretary. Several months later, COSATI was transferred from the Department of Defense to the Office of Science and Technology (OST) of the White House. Aines continued as the Executive Secretary, later Chairman, of COSATI, but in a civilian capacity.

In 1971, COSATI be moved to the Office of Science Information Service of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and was a Program Officer. Aines retained his important role in the NSF information program until 1978, when he transferred to the Department of Defense as Director, DoD Scientific and Technical Information. In 1980, he became Director of Technical Information, Department of Energy for five years, retiring from the Federal Service in 1985. After COSATI ended in 1973, Aines organized the Federal Information Manager’s Group to keep the members fully informed. He retired from the Federal Service in 1985.

Aines was also Scholar in residence at the National Library of Medicine and an early member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS).

Publications

Aines is credited with more than 500 articles or chapters of books and wrote regular columns for Government Computer News and INFOSCOPE.

• "A visit to the wasteland of federal scientific and technical information policy." J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci." 35, no 3 (1984): 179-184.
• "Foreign Dissemination of Unclassified Material of a Potential Strategic Value." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 23, no 1 (Oct.-Nov. 1996): 25-26. [1]
• Andrew Aines National STI Policy unfinished manuscript, [1990]. Internet Archive. Nearly 1,000 pages. [2] An unfinished book dated 1990 covering the history of efforts to establish a coherent policy at the national level for the management of scientific and technical information (STI). It includes a detailed history of the establishment and evolution of the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI). With notes by W. David Penniman, 2021. [3]

Offices

• Chairman, Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI).
• Federal Council for Science and Technology, 1966-1971.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vice President, 1972.

Awards

• U.S. Armed Forces. Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, and Commendation Medal.
• American Society for Information Science. Award of Merit, 1982.

Further reading

• Penniman, W. David. "Remembering 'Andy' Aines: A look back at his call for a national STI policy." Information services and use 41, no 1-2 (2021): 185–189. [4] Includes summaries of the chapters in his unpublished book.

Papers

University of Maryland, Special Collections and University Archives (College Park, MD). Hornbake Library. Andrew Aines papers. Collection 0343-MDHC1955-1975. 193.5 linear feet. Correspondence, manuscripts, reports, and memoranda. [5]