[Sighfis-l] Claire Kelly Schultz, 1924-2015

[Richard Hill]

Claire Kelly Schultz, 1924-2015: In Memoriam 

 

Claire Kelly Schultz, former president of the American Documentation
Institute (ADI), predecessor of ASIST, died in her home town of Line
Lexington, PA on May 28 at the age of 90. The cause of death was Alzheimers
disease. She was president of ADI in 1962 and received the Award of Merit in
1982. She was active in many different aspects of the life of ADI and was
perhaps the first member to take a keen interest in the history of ADI and
information science. 

 

She was a 1944 graduate of Juniata College and attended the Woman's Medical
College of Pennsylvania  from 1945-46. She received the MS degree from
Drexel Institute in 1946. After a brief time working for the Wistar
Institute as a research associate she worked as the librarian at Merck,
Sharp and Dohme Labs, from 1949 to 1957, where she began some of her early
explorations of machine literature searching using Remington Rand's
electronic sorters. This work brought her to the attention of John W.
Mauchley, developer of the Univac computer, who hired her to work for him on
information retrieval problems from 1958 to 1961. She was a research
scientist for the Institute for Advancement of Medical Communications in
Philadelphia from 1961 to 1970. From about 1972 to her retirement she was
the Director of Libraries at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, a
free-lance consultant and part-time teacher of documentation at Drexel
University, where she developed one of the first courses in the U.S. on
documentation.  

 

She authored a number of articles on special libraries, documentation,
information retrieval, indexing, and thesaurus construction. A short
biographical statement and links to photographs may be found at:
https://www.asist.org/pioneers/claire-kelly-schultz/

 

A complete bio-bibliography of her works may be found in her oral history at
the Chemical Heritage Foundation:
http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/oral-histories/details/schu
ltz-claire-k.aspx  Her papers are on deposit at the Babbage Institute of the
University of Minnesota. 

 

Robert V. Williams

Univ. of South Carolina

School of Library and Information Science

 

Richard B. Hill

Executive Director

ASIS&T

8555 16th Street, Suite 850

Silver Spring, MD  20910

v. (301) 495-0900

f. (301) 495-0810

 

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