[Asis-l] Winifred Sewell passes away

[Richard Hill]

Word has been received that Winifred Sewell died last week.  Below is bio 
information and the URL for her entry on the Information Science Pioneers 
website.

Dick Hill
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Winifred Sewell
DATES: 1917- 2002
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.

URL: http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/ISP/sewell.htm


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