Cloyd Dake Gull

Cloyd Dake Gull (1925-2003) was an American librarian.

Life

Cloyd Dake Gull was born on June 17, 1915, in Lorain, Ohio. Graduating from Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, in 1936, received an AB in Library Science (1937), then an AM (1939) at the University of Michigan.

Gull was periodicals librarian at North Carolina State College library, 1939-1942, then was on active duty in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945. After the war, he joined the staff of the Library of Congress in various positions. In 1952, Gull become a technical analyst with Mortimer Taube's Documentation, Inc. Between 1954 and 1958, he was an Administrative Officer in the Division of Engineering and Industrial Research at the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Gull joined the Computer Department of General Electric in 1958, and became a consulting analyst for information processing in the Information Systems Operation of the Defense Systems Department and worked on proposals for numerous library automation projects.

Gull joined the faculty of the Indiana University Library School, 1964-1967, then joined the National Library of Medicine. He worked as a consultant, established Cloyd Dake Gull and Associates, Inc. He retired in 1983 and died May 1, 2003 Gaithersberg..

Contributions

• Editor, Journal of Cataloging and classification, 1950-1953.
• At the Library of Congress Gull explored the use of punched cards and computers.
• From 1961 to 1963, Gull was a member of the GE team which designed the MEDLARS system for medical literature bibliographic control and searching services under a contract with the National Library of Medicine and the computer-driven photo offset composition system used for the publication of Index Medicus.
• With Gerald Sophar and Karl Heumann, Gull obtained a three year grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the [ASIST|American Documentation Institute's]] first independent secretariat and hire an executive director.

Offices

• American Documentation Institute. President, 1960.
• American Library Association. Counselor, 1962-65.
• Special Libraries Association. Indiana Chapter President.
• U.S. National Committee for the International Federation for Documentation (FID). Chairman, then at-large member of the 1960-1966.

Further reading

• University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center. Cloyd Dake Gull Papers, 1937-1987. Finding aid. [1]
• Who's Who in Library Service. 4th ed. p 264.

Papers

• University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center. Ann Arbor, MI. Cloyd Dake Gull Papers, 1937-1987. [2]d