Herner & Company

Herner and Company was a US information services company founded in 1958.

Herner and Company was founded by Saul Herner and Mary Herner in 1958.

Contributions

Herner and Company did research under contract with the government as well as conducting informational surveys and designing information systems for private organizations.

Projects conducted or proposed:

Design of experimental classification and coding system for Atomic Energy Commission documents.
Study of the degree and character of subject slanting of abstracts in indexing and abstracting publications.
Development of the Heatwole H-44, a small computer designed specifically for information searching.
Design of a non-manipulative correlative index.
Analysis of the basis for selecting or designing storage and retrieval systems to meet different requirements.
Project to test the efficiency of Uniterm indexing and non-manipulative correlative indexing.
Experimental keyword index to Cardiovascular bibliography.
Study of abstracting and indexing services for mental health literature.
Compilation and analysis of Science News Media.
Evaluation of the Chemical Engineering Thesaurus.

Publications

Numerous Herner and Company publications are available in the HathiTrust library. [1]

Examples:

Abstracting and indexing services : style, methodology, and physical format. a report to the National Institute of Mental Health. Prepared by Saul and Mary Herner, under contract PH 43-63-41. (PB 174 669). Washington, D.C. : [Distributed by Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information], 1963. [2]
Publication index and retrieval system : final report. Prepared for Office, Chief of Engineers [US Army]. Vicksburg, Miss. : U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ; 1980.[3]
Research, problem-solving, and the use of technical information in small and medium sized manufacturing firms; a report to the United States Department of Commerce, Office of Technical Services. Washington, DC: [Distributed by OTS], 1958. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002008715]

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