| NAME: | Winifred Sewell |
| DATES: | 1917- |
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| WORKED AT: | Squibb Institue for Medical Research; Columbia University; NLM |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | Sewell worked at: Columbia University (librarian); Wellcome Research Labs, NLM; Later as consultant. She was interested in coordination of chemical and biomedical terminology (especially online retrieval systems), medical information transfer, online searching behaviors of pharmacists; Believes need to maintain close relationship with the needs of scientists and to obtain the publications that concern them; Must maintain this relationship since have to quickly and efficiently classify different materials; Editor Unlisted Drugs; Believes "the better our own relationship with all non-librarians and specialized fields of knowledge, the greater can be our own progress" (Current Biography); Also interested in bibliometrics of molecular biology; Developed MESH for Medlars; Worked for Squibb before NLM. |
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| OFFICES: | SLA Pres. 1960-61; DIA (Drug Information Association) 1970-71. |
| PAPERS AT:
LOCATION #1 |
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| INCLUDES: | Papers in her personal possession; Has papers on SLA, Drug Information Association, ASIS, on consulting work, and continuing research work. |
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| SOURCE: | Conversation with Winifred Sewell, 9/95. |
| PAPERS AT:
LOCATION #2 |
Medical Library Association, 919 North Michigan Ave., Suite 3208, Chicago, IL 60611. |
| PAPERS DATES: | April 1984 |
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| INCLUDES: | Interview with Winifred Sewell by Carol Fenichel; About medical librarianship. |
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| SOURCE: | Dale, D.C. (com.), A Directory of Oral History Tapes of Librarians in the United States and Canada. American Library Association: Chicago, 1986, p. 96. |
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