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Biographical Directory of Documentation and Information Science
About this project
This Biographical Directory of Documentation and Information Science is an international effort to document the lives and contributions of people and organizations who have made substantial contributions to the field.
This resource is designed to enable historical work in the field by identifying pioneering individuals and organizations significant to the development of Information Science, and providing locations of personal papers and archival records related to these individuals and organizations.
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DISCLAIMER: Note that most of the entries are stubs or otherwise need to be improved.
It also includes a list of known oral histories of information scientists.
History
"Pioneers of Information Science" was initiated by Dr. Robert V. Williams, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina in 1996. The objectives of that project were to locate and document the archives and personal papers of individuals and organizations from the U.S. and Canada that were significant to the development of Information Science and Technology in the 20th century.
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Ben-Ami Lipetz (1927-2019) was born in Fargo, North Dakota, and grew up mostly in New York city. After a year in the US Navy he graduated in Mechanical engineering from Cornell in 1948. He then worked for the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island to help publish research reports concerning the peaceful applications of nuclear energy. In 1953 he worked for the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH, helping to establish the manufacture of titanium for the aeropspace industry. He also organized and managed the creation of an index to the 16 volume proceedings of the United Nation's First International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.
In 1959 he joined a new research and manufacturing company, Itek, in Lexington, MA, and was concerned with the creation and of science citation indexes. In the early 1960s Lipetz worked for the American Physical Society to determin whether to create a citation index for physics.
Contributions and Editorial Policies
We invite contributions from all members of the information science community. We especially seek international contributions. If you would like to write an entry, please read about the scope of the project and create a short article (a stub) that includes the individual or organization that you wish to nominate and submit it to the editors at biographicaleditor at gmail dot com.
See also our Manual of Style [1] and Article Template page.
The wiki is governed by an editorial board who hold all responsibility for the content of the project.