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20:57, 13 September 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Eric Boehm (Stub created.)
13:52, 31 May 2025 Smith2 talk contribs moved page Wilfrid F. Lancaster to Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster (Legacy record in error.)
17:58, 15 May 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Sanford Vincent Larkey (Created page with "Publications needs more work.")
21:33, 9 May 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Pauline Atherton Cochrane (Created page with "May 9, 2025: legacy page was mainly narrative with a lot of mark-up that did not work on our wiki. So I simplified the text and edited much closer to our format and style.")
14:00, 15 April 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Laurence Bedford Heilprin (Created page with "April 2025: Legacy record stated that he served as a professor of math and physics at Northwestern University before moving to Univ of Maryland. No confirmation of that found so far.")
14:24, 9 April 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Colin B. Burke (Initial stub.)
13:29, 4 April 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Herbert Menzel (Created page with "April 2025: NY Times obituary not yet seen. No other obituary found so far.")
08:58, 21 March 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Fred Alonzo Tate (Created page with "March 2025: A gravestone record provided death date. Otherwise an unusual lack of biographical sources found so far.")
16:00, 8 March 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page File:DerekdeSollaPrice.jpg
16:00, 8 March 2025 Smith2 talk contribs uploaded File:DerekdeSollaPrice.jpg
15:01, 15 February 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Bioinformatics (Created page with "Intended to be a special page for Category Bioinformatics. Seems not top have achieved that.")
14:59, 15 February 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Bioinformatics (Attempt to create a page to list Bioinformatics category entries.)
14:46, 15 February 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Category:Bioinformatics (Created page with "Bioinformatics")
18:46, 8 February 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Robert C. Binkley (Created page with "'''Robert C. Binkley''' (1897–1940) was an American historian and microfilm advocate. == Publications == Binkley published on a very wide range of topics. A list is in Zotero [https://www.zotero.org/groups/126633/robert_c._binkley_bibliography/library]. See also his ''Selected papers'' (1948). *''Selected papers'', ed. with a biographical sketch and a bibliography by Max H. Fisch. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1948. == Further reading == *Farkas-Conn, Irene....")
18:23, 6 February 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Michael F. Lynch (Created page with "'''Michael F. Lynch''' (1932-2024) was a specialist in computer-based chemical information studies. == Life == == Publications == *''Library automation; a bibliography''. Sheffield: Sheffield Univ. Press, 1966. *''Computer handling of chemical structure information''. [With others]. London: Macdonald and Co., 1971. *''Computer-based information services in science and technology: principles and techniques''. [Stevenage, UK]: P. Peregrinus [1974] == Further reading ==...")
15:09, 6 February 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page David Blair (Created page with "'''David C. Blair''' (1947-2011) was an American information retrieval expert. == Life == '''David Clark Blair'' was born on May 23, 1947 in Salem, Oregon. After living in Taiwan and Pakistan, he received a BA degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington and then a PhD from the University of California Berkeley. At Berkeley studied in the School of Library and Information Studies (later renamed School of Information). His doctoral dissertation, and died . ==...")
17:53, 28 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Arthur Becket Lamb (Created page with "Jan 28, 2025: I don't know why A. B. Lamb is included. Edited the ''Journal of the American Chemical Society'' is insufficient justification.")
18:54, 26 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Allen Kent (Created page with "Jan 26, 2025: Legacy record included: ); see link below. Permission to quote from not required as long as source is cited.")
15:41, 26 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Margaret Egan (Initial stub)
09:47, 26 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Alan Pollard (Initial stub.)
20:08, 25 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page S. C. Bradford (Initial stub)
10:23, 23 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Pathfinder (Initial stub.)
21:16, 22 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Zator Incorporated (Created page with "Jan 22, 2024: I suggest that this is a case where the individual and the organization are so overlapping that it would be better to transfer the material on this page to the Calvin Mooers page and then delete this page. I also think that a fuller and clearer explanation of Mooers' ideas is needed.")
10:13, 22 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs moved page University Microfilm Incorporated to University Microfilms Inc. without leaving a redirect (Legacy heading omitted the "s" on Micrdfilms. Also "Inc." more usual and user friendly that "Incorporated".)
16:31, 21 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs moved page Laure B. Doyle to Lauren B. Doyle without leaving a redirect (Lauren was spelled Laure.)
13:46, 20 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs moved page Talk:Smithsonian Science to Talk:Science Service (Science Service was never part of the Smithsonian, even toughits papers were deposited there.)
13:46, 20 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs moved page Smithsonian Science to Science Service (Science Service was never part of the Smithsonian, even toughits papers were deposited there.)
13:44, 20 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Smithsonian Science (Created page with "This heading is simply wrong. Science Service never was part of the Smithsonian. Will move to heading "Science service".")
13:52, 19 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page VINITI (Initial stub.)
16:14, 18 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page A. I. Mikhaĭlov (Initial stub.)
16:00, 16 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Frederick Gridley Kilgour (Created page with "Legacy record included a difficult read, difficult to understand chart showing interlibrary loan counts by groups of Ohio libraries. Relevance not explained. If anywhere, would be better in OCLC article, but did not move it there because exlanation not worth the space. thumb|Figure 3, Chart|none")
21:06, 15 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Donald Lindberg (Created page with "'''Donald A. B. Lindberg'' (1933-2019) was Director of the National Library of Medicine. '''Donald Donald Allen Bror Lindberg ''' was born on September 21, 1933 and died on August 17, 2019. He was known for his work in medical computing and was Director of the National Library of Medicine from 1984 until his retirement in 2015. == Life == Lindberg graduated from Amherst College in 1954 and received his M.D. from Columbia University in 1958. Between 1958 and 1960, he...")
20:27, 15 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Ralph Robert Shaw (Created page with "Hines chapter would be useful in next revision.")
18:18, 15 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page National Information Standards Organization (Initial stub)
13:11, 15 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page NIST (Create redirect) Tag: New redirect
13:09, 15 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Walter Schuermeyer (Create redirect) Tag: New redirect
10:12, 15 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs moved page National Bureau of Standards to National Institute of Standards and Technology (Name changed to NIST in 1988.)
21:02, 12 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:International Business Machines (Created page with "Jan 12, 2025: It is not clear in the source cited for the details of the Walnut system whether these details describe a prototype or a production version. Would be good if another source could be found.")
10:29, 12 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:King Research (Created page with "Jan 12, 2024: Temporarily left as an example. Oage for Don King links to a lengthy obituary.")
21:34, 11 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Jonkers Business Machines (Created page with "Jan 11, 2025: legacy record stated: Gerald Sophar, was an officer in the company. has a few files in his personal possession from his years as an officer in the Company. Conversation with G. Sophar, 10/94. An illustration and/or diagram would be nice.")
14:11, 11 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Anthony Cawkell (Created page with "'''Anthony Cawkell'''(1920-2003) was a British information scientist. '''Anthony Cawkell''' (1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer, information scientist. Cawkell was an associate of Eugene Garfield and worked for the Institute for Scientific Information (IIS) as "ISI’s Man in London." For IIS he served as Consultant (late 1960s-1971), Branch Director (1971-1973), Director of Research (1973-1978), and Vice President of Research (1979-1980). At ISI,...")
22:02, 10 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Saul Herner (Created page with "Legacy page included: In 1995 Saul Herner said he still had her papers; however, at the time of his death in 2002 no decision had been made on their disposition (or on the papers of Saul Herner and their joint company, Herner & Company). Phone conversation with Saul Herner, 9/95.")
19:50, 10 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Mary Herner (Created page with "Jan 10, 2025 Legacy record included: No information. In 1995 Saul Herner said he still had her papers; however, at the time of his death in 2002 no decision had been made on their disposition (or on the papers of Saul Herner and their joint company, Herner & Company).Source: Phone conversation with Saul Herner, 9/95.")
19:47, 10 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Herner & Company (Created page with "Legacy text included: There are extensive papers relating to the work of the Company, but no decision has been made about their deposit. Phone conversation with Saul Herner 9/95.")
16:03, 10 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Documentation Incorporated (Created page with "Legacy record (probably 1995) stated: Few files in personal possession of Taube's daughter, who lives in Maryland. Phone conversation with Jerry Sophar.")
13:39, 10 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Mortimer Taube (Created page with "Wikipedia has far superior article, Jan 9, 2025.")
18:31, 9 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:DIALOG Information Services (Created page with "Suggest reducing name to just "DIALOG" since official name varied. It was "DIALOG Information Services" for only some of its life.")
10:37, 9 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Chemical Abstracts Service (Created page with "1/9/2024: Reformatted but not updated.")
20:29, 8 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Robert V. Williams (Initial stub)
15:05, 8 January 2025 Smith2 talk contribs created page Talk:Bell Laboratories (Created page with "Delete unless some notable contribution to documentation and information systems is found. Not in the indexes of Bourne & Hahn or in Burke's "Information Wars."")