Cloyd Dake Gull

Cloyd Dake Gull (1925-2003) was an American librarian.

Life

Cloyd Dake Gull was born on June 17, 1915, in Lorain, Ohio. After graduating from Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, in 1936, he received an AB in Library Science (1937), then an AM (1939) at the University of Michigan.

Gull was periodicals librarian at North Carolina State College library, 1939-1942, then was on active duty in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945. After the war, he joined the staff of the Library of Congress and served in various positions. In 1952, Gull become a technical analyst with Mortimer Taube's Documentation, Inc. Between 1954 and 1958, he was an Administrative Officer in the Division of Engineering and Industrial Research at the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Gull joined the Computer Department of General Electric in 1958 and became a consulting analyst for information processing in the Information Systems Operation of the Defense Systems Department and worked on proposals for numerous library automation projects.

Gull joined the faculty of the Indiana University Library School, 1964-1967, then joined the National Library of Medicine. He worked as a consultant, established Cloyd Dake Gull and Associates, Inc., and retired in 1983. He died May 1, 2003 Gaithersberg, MD.

Contributions

• Editor, Journal of Cataloging and classification, 1950-1953.
• At the Library of Congress Gull explored the use of punched cards and computers.
• From 1961 to 1963, Gull was a member of the GE team which designed the MEDLARS system for medical literature bibliographic control and searching services under a contract with the National Library of Medicine and the computer-driven photo offset composition system used for the publication of Index Medicus.
• With Gerald Sophar and Karl Heumann, Gull obtained a three year grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the [ASIST|American Documentation Institute's]] first independent secretariat and hire an executive director.

Publications

• "Instrumentation [in Libraries of the United States Government]." Library Trends 2, no 1 (Summer 1953): 103-126. [1]
• "Substitutes for the card catalog." Library Trends 2 no 2 (Fall 1953). 318-329. [2]
• "Posting for the uniterm system of coordinate indexing." American Documentation 7, no. 1 (1956): 9-21.
• Thesaurus for the National Neighborhood Information Exchange : final and two interim reports. With Janet G. Baxter & Mary M. Wardlow. Kensington, MD: Cloyd Dake Gull and Associates, 1979.
• The EPIC project report : an engineering performance information center on structural failures and distresses : final report : prepared for Federal Highway Administration. Washington, DC: Department of Transportation1980.
• "Historical note: Information science and technology: From coordinate indexing to the global brain." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 38, no. 5 (1987): 338.
• A directory of sources for air and space history : primary historical collections in United States repositories. Ed. with others. Prelim. ed. Washington, DC: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1989.

Offices

• American Documentation Institute. President, 1960.
• American Library Association. Counselor, 1962-65.
• Special Libraries Association. Indiana Chapter President.
• U.S. National Committee for the International Federation for Documentation (FID). Chairman, then at-large member of the 1960-1966.

Further reading

• University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center. Cloyd Dake Gull Papers, 1937-1987. Finding aid. [3]
• Who's Who in Library Service. 4th ed. Shoe String Press, 1966, p 264.

Papers

• University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center. Ann Arbor, MI. Cloyd Dake Gull Papers, 1937-1987. [4]d