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	NAME:	Laurence Bedford Heilprin
	DATES:	1906-1993
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	WORKED AT:	University of Maryland; Documentation Inc.
	OTHER INFORMATION:	Major contribution according to Farkas-Conn was to set the stage for interest groups within ASIS; Worked under Clapp at the Council on Library Resources; Worked for Documentation Inc. (Taube's company); Prof., Univ. of Maryland; Throughout career explored fundamental aspects of information science; "Stimulated others to do research and attempt to discover the theoretical underpinnings of information science" (Farkas-Conn); Along with Luhn, instrumental in bringing about ARIST; Atherton/Cochrane, Bourne, and Cuadra were the driving force for ARIST--Cochrane has the history.
	AWARDS:	ASIS Award of Merit??--Bourne
	OFFICES:	ADI/ASIS Pres. 1964-65



	PAPERS AT: LOCATION #1	University of Maryland Library Archives, College Park, MD.
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SOURCE:	Farkas-Conn, Appendix B.