Becker & Hayes Co.
Becker & Hayes was a US information science consulting and publishing firm 1969-1995.
Late 1960s/early 1970s? Hayes rejoined previous hit Joseph Becker at Becker & Hayes, Incorporated in 1993 as Vice-President until Mr. Becker's death in 1995 (when Becker & Hayes, Incorporated was dissolved).
Two years after founded, became a subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons; Did consulting on library and computer networks, software development, and a publishing program; Hayes left the operation in 1974 to become Dean of the UCLA School of Library and Information Science; Becker continued to do consulting work with such firms as IBM, AT&T, Xerox, and A.D. Little as well as various libraries.
== Further reading.
- Hayes, R. M. (1996). "In memoriam: Joseph Becker, April 15, 1923-July 23, 1995." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47, no. 6 (1996): 412-414.
- Robert Mayo Hayes Papers (Collection 1513). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID UCLA Catalog Record ID: 1720410
Papers
As of 9/95, the Company papers were still in the possession of the Becker family; Plans are underway to deposit them with the UCLA archives/special collections department.