Download or read book Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems written by Mary Ellen Bowden and published by Information Today. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems was held October 23-25, 1998, in Pittsburgh, pa., prior to the ASIS annual meeting. The conference papers explored the history and heritage of the nature, development, and influence of all types of science information systems world-wide. It was co-sponsored by ASIS, the ASIS SIG History and Foundations of Information Science (IG/HFIS), and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, This was the first conference to explore this topic, and this volume will be of great interest to both historians and current practitioners.