期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2012
卷号：39
期号：1
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：Last October, at the annual planning session of ASIS&T Special Interest Group/History and Foundations of Information Science (SIG/HFIS), I volunteered to undertake a visit to University of Michigan to assess the contents and condition of the elusive and legendary American Society for Information Science records, (1939-1990). This collection is maintained by the Special Collections Library located on the seventh floor of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan. As an experienced archival researcher, a member of the ASIS&T 75th Anniversary Task Force, and chair of SIG/HFIS, I was eager to begin. A phone query to the Special Collections reference desk led to an online version of a detailed finding aid and the online request system for ordering the materials I would visit in February 2012. The 16 selected boxes promised to be rich in photographs and materials about the early development of special interest groups in 1966 on the cusp of the metamorphosis of the American Documentation Institute into the American Society for Information Science on January 1, 1968.
