Documentation Abstracts, Inc., records

1966-1969

MC 5, 2 cubic feet

Documentation Abstracts was an abstracting and indexing service started in 1966 by ADI (the American Documentation Institute, later the American Society for Information Science) and ACS/DCL (the American Chemical Society's Division on Chemical Literature).  They began publishing a journal of abstracts on information science literature in 1966.  Documentation Abstracts was later referred to as Information Science Abstracts starting in 1969 and Information Science and Technology Abstracts from 2001 to the present.  The collection consists of the records kept by Richard Snyder, director of the Science and Technology Library at the Drexel Institute, during his period of involvement with Documentation Abstracts, first as the Special Libraries Association's representative to the corporation and later as treasurer and acting business manager, from its founding in 1966 through 1969.

This collection is unprocessed.  A preliminary inventory list is available in the archives; contact the archivist at archives@drexel.edu for more information.