Mary Herner

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

Mary Herner was born in Scotland in 1937 and came to the US in 1953. She was a physics honors graduate and was proficient in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Japanese and studied Latin and ancient Greek.

In 1958 with her husband Saul Herner she founded 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 in 1996 and died in Fairfax, VA, in 1997.

Relevant Employment

Technical assistant science attache, British Embassy, Washington, DC, 1953-58.
Executive Vice-President, Herner & Company.

Publications

She was the author of 15 works published in technical journals.

Offices

Treasurer of ASIS in the late 60s and early 70s.

Source

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science in 1997.