[Asis-l] ASIST 75th birthday: a correction

[WILLIAMS, ROBERT]

Folks: I need to correct the date of the ASIST 75th birthday: it was actually March 13.

The reason (other than my carelessness) is that in Irene Farkas-Conn's history of ADI (From Documentation to Information Science ..., Greenwood Press, 1990) she mentions two dates: page 8 says: "On Saturday, March 13, 1937, nearly sixty delegates... gathered at the National Academy of Sciences...to discuss the organization of a documentation institute." On p. 66 she writes: The organization meeting of the American Documentation Institute took place...March 17, 1937."

Clearly, the second date is an error (probably a typo). However, to check out this apparent error I went to a 1937 calendar on the Web and discovered that March 13 was a Saturday and March 17 was a Wednesday. However, that was a month ago and when I sent the note I did not double check again and compounded the error in the book with my own error. I think the best word to describe my feelings when Jan Hatzoks corrected me is: embarrassing!

However, the correction gives me another chance to say: please help the 75th Anniversary Task Force celebrate the birthday and the  75th year by thinking of ways you can celebrate with all of us.

Bob Williams

Robert V. Williams, Distinguished Prof., Emeritus
School of Library and Information Science
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Ph: 803-777-2324
E-mail: bobwill at sc.edu
Home Web page: http://faculty.libsci.sc.edu/bob/frontpg.htm

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