E. Eugene Miller
E. Eugene Miller was an American technical reports specialist.
Life
E. Eugene Miller was recruited in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to initiate a scientific and technical report program and to develop coordination among the NACA information services located in its laboratories. He became Chief of the Research Information Division. In 1951, he became a deputy director of the US Department of Defense's newly formed Armed Services Technical Information Agency (ASTIA). In 1952 he left this position to become vice president of Documentation Incorporated. Miller also worked for the Atomic Energy Commission. As of 1974 he was principal consultant at REMAC Information Corporation in Gaithersberg, MD.
Publications
- CADO [Central Air Document Office] Central Documentation Program. [No place, no date.]
- "The distribution-acquisition problem in technical reporting." American Documentation 4, no 3 (Aug 1953): 95-102. Also in: The communication of specialized information. Ed. M. E. Egan. Chicago: American Library Association for the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, 1954, pp 22-33.
Offices
- American Documentation Institute. President, 1953. Miller encouraged ADI to add personal members.
Further reading
- Farkas-Conn, Irene. From documentation to information science: The beginnings and early development of the American Documentation Institute—American Society for Information Science. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. [1]
- Adkinson, Burton. Two Centuries of Federal Government Information. Stroudsberg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1978, p. 159.
- L. L. [Lois F. Lunin] "Voice from a past president: E. Eugene Miller: President 1953." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 1, no 4 (Nov 1974): 40. Brief summary of telephone discussion. [2]