Seymour Irving Taine

Life

1919-2010

Relevant Employment

• NLM
• NSF
• NASA

Contributions

Taine was editor-in-chief for Index Medicus 1960-64. He was interested in indexing and technical services. He worked at: Technician, US Army Medical (Sgt.) 1943-46; Librarian, University of CA at Berkeley, Biology Library 1947-49; Cataloger, Army Medical Library 1949; Editor Current List of Medical Literature, Armed Forces Medical Library 1950-56; NLM: Chief index division 1956-60; Chief bibliographic services division 1960-64; Consultant, World Health Organization summer 1964; Program director, NSF 1964-65; Chief technical services branch, science and technical information division, NASA 1965-?; Project director, NLM Index Mechanization Project; Project director, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System.

See a brief biographical sketch at the National Library of Medicine site: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/seymour_taine_dies.html .

Awards

• 1962 First Eliot Award (Med Lit)

Offices

• National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Societies Board of Directors, 1960-64
• FID US National Committee, 1962-64

Papers

Location #1: Library of the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago

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  • Oral history interview, by Carol Fenichel, 1982, as part of the Medical Library Association's oral history project.
  • Contains good biographical information, an index to the interview, and how to access it.
  • Located at: http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/taine_s.html
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