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Page 51 - Service, shall (1) provide, or arrange for the provision of, indexing, abstracting, translating, and other services leading to a more effective dissemination of scientific information, and (2) undertake programs to develop new or improved methods, including mechanized systems, for making scientific information available.
Page 18 - Council") consisting of the Librarian of Congress, the director of the National Library of Medicine, the director of the Department of Agriculture library, and the head of the Science Information Service, each of whom shall be ex officio members, and fifteen members appointed by the Director of the National Science Foundation.
Page 535 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Page 767 - We believe the specialized information center should be primarily a technical institute rather than a technical library. It must be led by professional working scientists and engineers who maintain the closest contact with their technical professions and who, by being near the data, can make new syntheses that are denied those who do not have all the data at their fingertips.
Page 732 - Chairman of the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on a National Research Data Processing and Information Retrieval Center (Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, 88th Cong., 1st sess., Hearings on HR 1946) are indicative of congressional concern over this problem.
Page 832 - Drive Arlington, Virginia 22202 1 Dr. George H. Heilmeier Office of Director of Defense Research and Engineering The Pentagon Washington, DC 20315 1 Director, National Security Ag.
Page 871 - It must be recognized that the growth of science is something very much more active, much vaster in its problems, than any other sort of growth happening in the world today. For one thing, it has been going on for a longer time and more steadily than most other things. More important, it is growing much more rapidly than anything else. All other things in population, economics, nonscientific culture, are growing so as to double in roughly every human generation or say thirty to fifty years.
Page 832 - ... invention of one of its products before it realized someone else had developed the same product. One Air Force project for storing and retrieving research reports rediscovered 3,000 reports worth $36 million. In fact, the situation of retrieving information has reached such an abyssmal state of affairs that industries find it more economical to duplicate research projects costing less than $100,000 rather than spend the time and effort in finding out if in fact the desired information is available...
Page 526 - A set of retrieval terms does not constitute a language, nor is the argument which follows a misguided attempt at a new or original analysis of the language problem in any of its many guises, but it is helpful to enlarge the scope of the discussion in order to say something about meaning and language in relation to the distance concept. First, meaning as defined by logicians is analyzed in terms of sentences (and still almost invariably in terms of declarative sentences) and within a given language...
Page 10 - ... individual responsibilities. "The Foundation's plan for discharging its Federal coordinating responsibility has involved, as a minimum, the cooperative development of a Government system that could provide any US scientist or scientific organization promptly and reliably with: (1) information on the nature and status of federally supported research in progress; (2) announcements, abstracts, and indexes of reports issued on such research; (3) access to copies of these reports; and (4) a single...