| NAME: | Seymour Irving Taine |
| DATES: | 1919- |
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| WORKED AT: | NLM; NSF; NASA |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | Taine was editor-in-chief for Index Medicus 1960-64. He was interested in indexing and technical services. He worked at: Technician, US Army Medical (Sgt.) 1943-46; Librarian, University of CA at Berkeley, Biology Library 1947-49; Cataloger, Army Medical Library 1949; Editor Current List of Medical Literature, Armed Forces Medical Library 1950-56; NLM: Chief index division 1956-60; Chief bibliographic services division 1960-64; Consultant, World Health Organization summer 1964; Program director, NSF 1964-65; Chief technical services branch, science and technical information division, NASA 1965-?; Project director, NLM Index Mechanization Project; Project director, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System. |
| AWARDS: | 1962 First Eliot Award (Med Lit) |
| OFFICES: | National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Societies Board of Directors 1960-64; FID US National Committee 1962-64. |
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PAPERS AT: LOCATION #1 |
Library of the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. |
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| INCLUDES: | An interview with Taine discussing topics which involve or affect medical librarianship;. Supposed to be interviewed in 1980/81. |
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| SOURCE: | Brodman, Estelle, "Possible Uses of MLA's Oral History Taped Interviews," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. January 1981, 69(1), 34-35. |
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