Florida; Matthew R. Henderson of Boonsboro;Katherine DiLima of Germantown; and LauraHicks and husband Brian of Frederick, and by tengrandchildren and one great grandchild.Those desiring may make memorial contributions

in her name to the Homewood Foundation, P.O. Box250, Williamsport, MD 21795.Our thanks to RobertV.Williams for the following

look at Madeline’s career.

Madeline M. Henderson, 88, of Frederick, died onJuly 17, 2011, at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Shewas a longtime member and pioneer of ASIS&T.She was also a member of the American ChemicalSociety and the American Association forAdvancement of Science.Madeline was predeceased by her husband

Richard who died in 2008. She is survived by herchildren, Anne DeRito and husband Frank of

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Madeline M. Henderson: From Chemical Information Science Pioneer to Architect ofthe New Information Scienceby Robert V. Williams

Madeline M. (Berry) Henderson was an active contributor to and innovator in the field ofdocumentation/information science. Her professional life provides multiple examples of the phrase“present at the creation” during the early development of information science in the period 1950–75.Her first significant contribution was in chemical information science, where she was a close associateand co-worker of JamesW. Perry, one of the foremost developers of the early ideas about informationretrieval and chemical information science. With Perry and others, includingAllen Kent, she coeditedthe first two significant publications on the use of punched cards for information retrieval systems andwas the leader in the first efforts to evaluate chemical notation systems for use in information retrieval.These efforts brought national and international attention as well as numerous citations to her work.Three years after the 1952 establishment of the National Science Foundation’s Office of Scientific

Information, Henderson was evaluating grant proposals for the emerging field of documentation/information science and in the process of crafting two of the most significant publications that bothtracked and influenced the development of the field. She not only was the creator of these twopublications but also did the “legwork” investigating the projects, thus likely becoming the mostknowledgeable person in the field about research and development work during this period. Her workat the National Bureau of Standards on copyright, standards and fostering cooperation among thelibraries of U.S. federal agencies was an important factor in their success, particularly in libraryautomation.

Adapted from Libraries & theCultural Record, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2010©2010 by the University of TexasPress, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX78713-7819