Science, technology, and the Library of Congress

JUN 01, 1965

Dwight E. Gray

The walrus’ catalog of “many things” as reported by Lewis Carroll comprised a form of footwear, a mode of transportation, a resin‐turpentine mixture, a thick‐leaved member of the mustard family, a rank of male royalty, an aspect of oceanic temperature, and a possible anatomical aberration of swine. Although the “many things” dealt with by the Science and Technology Division of the Library of Congress are mostly different from those enunciated by Carroll’s walrus, they are fully as varied and vastly more numerous. They have included, for example, aerospace and the Antarctic, permafrost and plastics, diodes and Diesel engines, magnetism and marine borers, lasers and Loran, photointerpretation and physiology, bioregeneration and blood flow, isotopes and infrared, catamarans and cloud seeding, and many others.

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References

1. Dwight E. Gray, “Library of Congress Science Division”, Physics Today, January 1951, p. 28.
2. A descriptive brochure on the Technical Literature Searching Service can be obtained from either the Science and Technology Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540, or the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Va. 22151.
3. A list, “Publications of the Science and Technology Division”, can be obtained from the Division on request.
4. The Directory is available from the Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office ($2.25). A brochure on this program is available from the Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540;
see also J. F. Stearns, “National Referral Center’s First Year”, Special Libraries, 551, 20–23, (1964).