Israel A. Warheit - Revision history

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



	== Life ==		== Life ==
	1912-~~1973~~		'''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.

	~~== Relevant Employment ==~~		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.

	* Allison Library		In 1959, Warheit joined [[International Business Machines\|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.
	* AEC
	* IBM

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	Warheit ~~worked at: Librarian Allison Library -- a division~~ of ~~General Motors 1941-46; Chief, library section,~~ technical ~~information, AEC 1946-52; Also worked for IBM. He completed a pioneering study on~~ the ~~cost~~ of ~~a book~~. ~~A comprehensive biographical sketch, by~~		Warheit specialized in the treatment of technical reports and the mechanization of library procedures.
	== ~~Awards~~ ==
			== Publications ==
			Numerous publications are listed by Google Schoalr. [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22I.+A.+Warheit%22]

	~~== Offices ==~~		*"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. [http://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/download/10502/11948]
			*"A Study of Coordinate Indexing as Applied to US Atomic Energy Commission Reports." ''College & Research Libraries'' 16, no. 3 (1955): 278-285. [http://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/viewFile/10926/12372]
			*"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 ==		== 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.		*"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.
	~~== Papers ==~~
	'''~~Location #1~~'''

	* Papers dates:
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	* Includes: No information about in the IBM Archives.
	* Finding aid:
	* Source: Phone conversation with IBM Archives, ~~6/96~~.

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	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	Warheit worked at: Librarian Allison Library -- a division of General Motors 1941-46; Chief, library section, technical information, AEC 1946-52; Also worked for IBM. He completed a pioneering study on the cost of a book. A comprehensive biographical sketch, by ~~Gordon Randall, appears in the Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography, Vol. 1, pp. 151-153.~~		Warheit worked at: Librarian Allison Library -- a division of General Motors 1941-46; Chief, library section, technical information, AEC 1946-52; Also worked for IBM. He completed a pioneering study on the cost of a book. A comprehensive biographical sketch, by

	== Awards ==		== Awards ==

	== Offices ==		== Offices ==

			== 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.

	== Papers ==		== Papers ==

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== Life ==
1912-1973

== Relevant Employment ==

* Allison Library
* AEC
* IBM

== Contributions ==
Warheit worked at: Librarian Allison Library -- a division of General Motors 1941-46; Chief, library section, technical information, AEC 1946-52; Also worked for IBM. He completed a pioneering study on the cost of a book. A comprehensive biographical sketch, by Gordon Randall, appears in the Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography, Vol. 1, pp. 151-153.

== Awards ==

== Offices ==

== Papers ==
'''Location #1'''

* Papers dates:
* Size:
* Includes: No information about in the IBM Archives.
* Finding aid:
* Source: Phone conversation with IBM Archives, 6/96.