Jack Cassius Morris
Life
Jack Cassius Morris (1911-1954)
Relevant Employment
- ORNL Library
Contribution
Morris worked at: Librarian, Univ. SD 1941-43; Patent chemist, Hercules Powder Co. 1943-1946; Chief librarian, ORNL 1947-54. He wrote Corporate Entry Guide for Report Literature at ORNL as well as two important articles on subject analysis. Under his leadership the ORNL library became a model special library. He developed an "outstanding technical reports control system." Morris was responsible for the basic ideas/systems used to catalog the series reports issued by the AEC. He challenged Taube's Uniterm information retrieval system. He believed subject headings used in a unit card system of application were superior to the Uniterm system. He advocated the development of a system combining the best features of unit and marginal punched cards.
Publications
- Corporate entry guide for report literature at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge, TN ORNL Library, 1953.
- "Evolution or involution? Notes critical of the Uniterm system of indexing." Journal of cataloging and classification 10 (July 1954): 11-118.
- "The duality concept in subject analysis." American documentation 5 (August 1954); 117-146.
Awards
Offices
- SLA Oak Ridge Chapter | Pres., 1952-53.
Further reading
- Williams, Robert V. "Morris, Jack Cassius (1911-1954)". Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography." Ed. by Wayne A. Wiegand. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1990, pp 84-87.
- "Jack Cassius Morris." American documentation 6, no 1 (Jan 1955):
- "Randall, Gordon E, "Necrology: Jack Morris." College & research libraries 16 (Jan 1955): 105-106.
Papers
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- Includes: No papers in existence; based on a 1990 conversation with his wife. See Dictionary of Americal Library Biography; Supplement (Libraries Unlimited, 1990, pp. 84-87.
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- Source: DALB Supplement