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Cloyd Dake Gull

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DATES:
1915-2003

WORKED AT:
LC; NLM ; Gull and Associates

OTHER INFORMATION:
Gull worked at the Library of Congress as: Deputy Chief/Acting Chief of the Catalog Maintenance Division; Editor-in-Chief of the Science and Tech. Project. At LC, he was associated with theoretical and practical use of punched-card equipment. He was a consultant for GE Information Systems Operations 1958-63. He also worked at: Prof., Library School, Indiana Univ., 1964-67; Officer for NLM Task Force on Automation 1967-68; Pres., Gull & Associates Inc. 1969-?. Gull was involved with federal government and special libraries. He participated in MEDLARS development. See a brief obituary in The Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, June/July, 2003.

OFFICES:
ADI/ASIS Pres. 1960; Counselor at ALA 1962-65; SLA Indiana Chapter Pres. 1966-67.

PAPERS AT:
LOCATION #1
Personal possession at the time of his death; not known what happened to his papers

PAPERS DATES:
1930s to date

SOURCE:
Phone conversation with Gull, 7/96.

PAPERS AT:
LOCATION #2
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University Library, University of Michigan; search under: Gull, Cloyd Dake.

SIZE:
1 box

INCLUDES:
Primarily consists of reprints of articles by him and about Information Science

FINDING AID:
None.

SOURCE:
ASIS