Saul Herner
Saul Herner (1923-2002) was an American librarian and information services consultant.
Life
Saul Herner was born on January 29, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York.Born in 1923, grew up in New York. He studied at the University of Wisconsin from 1940 to 1945 (BS 1945).
He was briefly a research chemist, US Army Air Corps, 1945-46, then chemical reference librarian in the New York Public Library, 1946-48, and at the same time began working towards a bachelor's degree in library science, taking correspondence courses at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1948, Herner took a job at the New York University engineering and science library and became interested in special libraries and the Special Libraries Association. Two years later, he moved to be Chief librarian, Applied Physics Library, Johns Hopkins University 1950-53 and he began developing an interest in user studies. From 1953 to 1956 he was Head librarian of the plant group at Atlantic Research Corp. 1953-56, and began to form his own company, Herner & Company which he and his wife, Mary Herner, established in 1956.
He was involved in a number of organizations, including the American Chemical Society and the Information Industry Association. Saul Herner died in 2002.
Publications
Some of his technical publications that were published by Herner & Company are available in the HathiTrust library. [1]
- The establishment of staff requirements in a small research library. With M. K. Heatwole. [Chicago]: Publications Committee, Association of College and Reference Libraries, 1952. [2]
- "Information gathering habits of workers in pure and applied science." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 46, no. 1 (1954): 228-236.
- "Technical Information--Too Much or Too Little?." The Scientific Monthly 83, no. 2 (1956): 82-86. [3]
- The use of Soviet medical research information by American medical scientists. With Robert S. Meyer. Washington, 1957. [4]
- "Technical Information -- Too Much or Too Little?" The Scientific Monthly 83, no 2 (Aug 1956): 82-86. [5]
- "Methods of organizing information for storage and searching." American documentation 13, no. 1 (1962): 3-14.
- "Brief history of information science." Journal of the American society for information science 35, no. 3 (1984): 157-163.
- A brief guide to sources of scientific and technical information. With Gene P. Allen and Nancy D. Wright. 2nd ed. Arlington, VA: Information Resources Press, 1980.
- Oral history interview with Saul Herner 1997-Jul-16, Philadelphia: Science History Institute. [6]