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	NAME:	Herman Fussler
	DATES:	1914 - 1997(?)
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	WORKED AT:	University of Chicago
	OTHER INFORMATION:	Fussler was Head of the Manhattan Project's library division--laying the foundation for the Atomic Energy Commission's later information activities. He was associate editor of American Documentation. He wrote Photographic Reproduction for Libraries: A Study in Administrative Problems (1941). Fussler conducted early bibliometrics studies of the journal literature of chemistry and physics. He was interested in measuring the role of libraries in scientific communication. He published important articles on this subject in Library Quarterly. He was the director of the University of Chicago Library, 19??-??.
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	PAPERS AT: LOCATION #1	University of Chicago Library, Special Collections.
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	SIZE:	25 archival cartons
	INCLUDES:	Professional papers
	FINDING AID:	Preliminary inventory only. Papers have not been arranged or described as of June 1997.
SOURCE:	Correspondence with Reference Services, Special Collections, University of Chicago, 6/97.