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Dec 06, 1910 Jersey City, New Jersey, United States Died on 03 Sep 1965 (aged 54)
American librarian
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About Mortimer Taube
- Mortimer Taube (December 6, 1910 – September 3, 1965) was an American librarian.
- He is on the list of the 100 most important leaders in Library and Information Science of the 20th century.
- He was important to the Library Science field because he invented Coordinate Indexing, which uses “uniterms” in the context of cataloging.
- It is the forerunner to computer based searches.
- In the early 1950s he started his own company, Documentation, Inc.
- with Gerald J.
- Sophar.
- Previously he worked at such institutions as the Library of Congress, the Department of Defense, and the Atomic Energy Commission.
- American Libraries calls him “an innovator and inventor, as well as scholar and savvy businessman.” Current Biography called him the “Dewey of mid-twentieth Librarianship.” Mortimer Taube was a very active man with varying interests such as tennis, philosophy, sailing, music, and collecting paintings.
