Brief Description:

Papers of Scott Adams (1909-82), president of American Documentation Institute (1954-55) and Medical Library Association (1967-68), secretary, chairman and member of professional councils, committees, conferences and groups concerned with acquisitions, indexing, medical librarianship, foreign library resources, and international information policies, services, and transfer.

Adams graduated from Yale (1930) and Columbia Library School (1940) and was a librarian at Columbia (1940-42), Providence Public Library (1943-45) Army Medical Library (1945-50), National Institutes of Health (1950-59), and National Library of Medicine (1960-70) and Director of the University of Louisville Center for International Education (1973-75). He served as consultant, program specialist and reporter for international conferences about scientific information programs.

Record Series Number: 97/1/32

Created by: Adams, Scott (1909-1982)

Volume: 15.5 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 01/20/1987.

Arrangement: Arranged by subject title and chronologically by date thereunder

Biographical Note for Adams, Scott (1909-1982) : Scott Adams was born in Agawam, Massachusetts in 1909. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale in 1930. Before his library education, Adams worked as a teacher of English and Latin, as an ordinary seaman, and in book distribution to libraries. In 1940 Adams received an MLS from Columbia School of Library Service, and went on to serve as the head of acquisitions at Teachers College Library in New York 1940-1942, and head of acquisitions and cataloging at the Providence Public Library in Rhode Island 1943-1945. In 1945 Adams began his medical librarianship career in Washington, D.C. as chief of acquisitions at the Army Medical Library. Adams was librarian of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he developed the concept of the "bibliographic aide" and directed a Russian scientific translation program. 1959-1960 Adams served as program director of the Foreign Science Information Program at the National Science Foundation. In 1960, he became the deputy director at the National Library of Medicine. Adams was very involved with a wide variety of professional organizations throughout his career, including president of the Medical Library Association 1967-68, and was a proponent of international biomedical communication. Adams also published widely and received the Marcia Noyes prize in 1969. Adams died in 1982.

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