Israel A. Warheit

Israel Albert Warheit (1912-1973) was an American librarian.

Life

Israel Albert Warheit was born on December 12, 1912 in York, Ontario, Canada, and moved to the USA in 1927. He studied in modern languages at Michigan State Normal College (later named Eastern Michigan University) (AB, 1933); then Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Michigan, MA (1934) and PhD (1940) in German, and ABLS in 1940. He studied at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1935-1936.

Warheit was librarian, Allison Division of General Motors, Indianapolis, 1941-1946; Chief of library services, for the US Atomic Energy Commission, , Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1946-1952; Head, Library department, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, 1952-1956; and Chief librarian, Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, DC.

In 1959, Warheit joined IBM's Advanced Systems Development Division in Washington, then in 1961 moved as Senior Systems Analyst to IBM in San Jose, California. He died on Feb 2, 1973 in Southfield, Michigan.

Contributions

Warheit specialized in the treatment of technical reports and the mechanization of library procedures.

Publications

Numerous publications are listed by Google Schoalr. [1]

• "The Atomic Energy Commission Library System: Its Origin and Development." With B. M. Fry & G. E. Randall. College & Research Libraries 11, no. 1 (1950): 5-9. [2]
• "A Study of Coordinate Indexing as Applied to US Atomic Energy Commission Reports." College & Research Libraries 16, no. 3 (1955): 278-285. [3]
• "Evaluation of library techniques for the control of research materials." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 7, no. 4 (1956): 267.
• "The computer produced book catalog." Special Libraries 60, no. 9 (1969): 537-577.
• "The Automation of Libraries. Some Economic Considerations." Special libraries 63, no. 1 (1972): 1-7.

Further reading

• "Randall, Gordon E. "Warheit, Israel Albert (1912-1973)." Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography." Ed. by Wayne A. Wiegand. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1990, pp. 151-153.
• Who's Who in Library Service. 4th ed. Ed. Lee Ash. New York: Shoe String Press, 1966, p. 727.