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Revision as of 14:14, 14 September 2023

ORGANIZATION:

Herner & Company

ACTIVE DATES:

1958 - at least 1996

ADDRESS:

Herner & Company, 1110 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 2220, (703)558-8200

E-MAIL:

PERSONS INVOLVED:

Saul Herner; Mary Herner

MAJOR PROJECTS:

Heatwole H-44; Nonmanipulative correlative index.

OTHER INFORMATION:

Founded mid 1950s; Does research under contracts with the government as well as conducting informational surveys and designing information systems for private organizations.

Projects conducted or proposed: 1. design of experimental classification and coding system for AEC documents; 2. study of the degree and character of subject slanting of abstracts in indexing and abstracting publications; 3. development of the Heatwole H-44, a small computer designed specifically for information searching; 4. design of a nonmanipulative correlative index; 5. analysis of the basis for selecting or designing storage and retrieval systems to meet different requirements; 6. project to test the efficiency of Uniterm indexing and nonmanipulative correlative indexing; 7. experimental keyword index to Cardiovascular bibliography; 8. study of abstracting and indexing services for mental health literature; 9. compilation and analysis of Science News Media; 10. evaluation of the Chemical Engineering Thesaurus.

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PAPERS AT:
LOCATION

There are extensive papers relating to the work of the Company, but no decision has been made about their desposit.

PAPERS DATES:

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SOURCE:

Phone conversation with Saul Herner, 9/95.