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Mary Herner (1937-1997) was a British American pioneer of information science.

Mary Herner, nee Alexander was born in Scotland in 1937. She was a physics honors graduate and was proficient in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese and studied Latin and ancient Greek. She came to the USA in 1953 and was Technical assistant to the science attache in the British Embassy, Washington, DC, 1953-58.

In 1958 she founded, with her husband Saul Herner, Herner and Company, a specialized business in the fields of information systems, clearinghouses and databases. Over the years she supervised the company's abstracting, indexing and database projects and became an authority on nuclear medicine. She retired as president of Herner and Company in 1996 and died in Fairfax, VA, in 1997.

Publications

Google Scholar lists several articles and reports. [1]

Herner, Mary, and Saul Herner. The current status of the government research report in the United States of America. Unesco International Advisory Committee on Bibliography, 1960.
Herner, Saul, and Mary Herner. An Experiment in the Use of Reference Questions in the Design of a Classification System: Report to the National Science Foundation. Herner and Company, 1962.
"Information needs and uses in science and technology." With S. Herner. Annual review of information science and technology 2, no. 1 (1967): 1-31.
"The unpublished∗ government research report: 1959 and 1985." With S. Herner. Government Publications Review 13, no. 1 (1986): 97-104.

Offices

Treasurer of the American Society for Information Science in the late 60s and early 70s.

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-Mary Herner (1937-1997) was a pioneer of information science.
+'''Mary Herner''' (1937-1997) was a British American pioneer of information science.
-== Life ==
-The following brief obituary appeared in the ASIS Bulletin in 1997:
-Mary Herner, who served as treasurer of ASIS in the late 60s and early 70s, passed away on March 9 in Fairfax, Virginia.
+'''Mary Herner, nee Alexander''' was born in Scotland in 1937. She was a physics honors graduate and was proficient in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese and studied Latin and ancient Greek. She came to the USA in 1953 and was Technical assistant to the science attache in the British Embassy, Washington, DC, 1953-58.
-With her husband Saul, in 1958 she founded Herner and Company, a specialized business in the fields of information systems, clearinghouses and databases. She retired as president of Herner in 1996. Over the years she supervised the company's abstracting, indexing and database projects and became an authority on nuclear medicine.
+In 1958 she founded, with her husband [[Saul Herner]], [[Herner & Company|Herner and Company]], a specialized business in the fields of information systems, clearinghouses and databases. Over the years she supervised the company's abstracting, indexing and database projects and became an authority on nuclear medicine. She retired as president of Herner and Company in 1996 and died in Fairfax, VA, in 1997.
-Born in Scotland, Mrs. Herner was a physics honors graduate and was proficient in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese and studied Latin and ancient Greek. She was the author of 15 works published in technical journals.
+== Publications ==
+Google Scholar lists several articles and reports. [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Mary+Herner]
-== Relevant Employment ==
+*Herner, Mary, and Saul Herner. ''The current status of the government research report in the United States of America''. Unesco International Advisory Committee on Bibliography, 1960.
+*Herner, Saul, and Mary Herner. ''An Experiment in the Use of Reference Questions in the Design of a Classification System: Report to the National Science Foundation''. Herner and Company, 1962.
-* [[Herner & Company|'''Herner & Co.''']]
+*"Information needs and uses in science and technology." With S. Herner. ''Annual review of information science and technology'' 2, no. 1 (1967): 1-31.
+*"The unpublished∗ government research report: 1959 and 1985." With S. Herner. ''Government Publications Review'' 13, no. 1 (1986): 97-104.
-== Contributions ==
-Herner came to the United States in 1953. She worked at: Technical assistant science attache, British Embassy 1953-58; Executive Vice-Pres., Herner & Co. 1958-?
-== Awards ==
 == Offices ==
+*Treasurer of the [[ASIST|American Society for Information Science]] in the late 60s and early 70s.
-== Papers ==
+== Further reading ==
-'''Location #1''' 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).
+*Obituary. ''Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science'' late in 1997.
-* '''Papers dates:'''
-* '''Size:'''
-* '''Includes:'''
-* '''Finding aid:'''
-* '''Source''': Phone conversation with Saul Herner, 9/95.