As a matter of fact, there was never a time when the importance of the effective handling of the literature of science was more fully recognized. There was a time when such work was considered to be a step down from work in the laboratory, but this is certainly not true now. The role of the scientific documentologist is as essential to scientific progress as is laboratory experimentation. The documentologist's work is as exacting and as interesting for it presents problems every day. The need for such work is being recognized increasingly on all sides, as by industry.
Human progress is made by cooperation.
The Russians, I might add, are not in the same situation. Describe Institute of Scientific Institutions. E. J. Crane I am often asked how I became interested in documentation, particularly mechanized documentation. The continued preservation of our status as time binders depends upon our ability to continue preserving that link. Over the centuries the form of our documents has evolved from clay tablets to papyri on up through the modern printed page and already is more accessible.