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and a machine reader to search for specific items or documents by terms or keywords. Documentation, Inc. also brought forth the IBM 9900 Special Index
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wanted to evaluate and publish the scientific and engineering records showing the advancements made during the war." Their goal was also to make the material more readily available to the public and to open up business with countries abroad. He was Deputy Chief of the
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Consultants for the study of indexes to medical literature: Dr. Lewis H. Weed, Chairman, Dr. John F. Fulton, Dr. Sanford V. Larkey, Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, Dr. William S. Middleton, Dr. Ebbe C. Hoff, Dr. Eugene W. Scott, Dr. Mortimer Taube, Mr. Ralph R. Shaw, Miss Janet Doe, Dr. Morris
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Mortimer Taube also worked heavily with documentation, the literature pertaining to the new scientific innovation. He was a consultant and
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methods simply could not handle the inflow. New technology was needed to meet this high demand and
Mortimer Taube delivered. He dabbled in many projects during and after the war. In 1944 he joined the
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in the years 1952–1953. In 1952, Taube co-founded
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in 1935. The following year, 1936, he received a certificate in librarianship from
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storage and retrieval. It made "logical relationships among terms." Even though
Documentation Inc. started as a small company, it soon grew to well over 700 members.
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Smith, Elizabeth S., "On the
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161:(December 6, 1910 – September 3, 1965) was an American librarian. He is recognized as one the 100 most important leaders in American
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in his later years and was writing a book on the subject before he died. While his technology work influenced modern computer
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Taube married Bernice, and they had three children: a son named Donald, and two daughters, Deborah and Susan.
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of mid-twentieth Librarianship." Mortimer Taube was a very active man with varying interests such as
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