ORGANIZATION: Herner & Company
ACTIVE DATES: mid 1950s -
ADDRESS: Herner & Company, 1110 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 2220, (703)558-8200
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PERSONS INVOLVED: Saul Herner; Mary Herner.
MAJOR PROJECTS: Heatwole H-44; Nonmanipulative correlative index.
OTHER INFORMATION: Founded mid 1950s; Does research under contracts with the government as well as conducting informational surveys and designing information systems for private organizations.

Projects conducted or proposed: 1. design of experimental classification and coding system for AEC documents; 2. study of the degree and character of subject slanting of abstracts in indexing and abstracting publications; 3. development of the Heatwole H-44, a small computer designed specifically for information searching; 4. design of a nonmanipulative correlative index; 5. analysis of the basis for selecting or designing storage and retrieval systems to meet different requirements; 6. project to test the efficiency of Uniterm indexing and nonmanipulative correlative indexing; 7. experimental keyword index to Cardiovascular bibliography; 8. study of abstracting and indexing services for mental health literature; 9. compilation and analysis of Science News Media; 10. evaluation of the Chemical Engineering Thesaurus.

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SOURCE: Phone conversation with Saul Herner, 9/95.


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