Moderator:

• Arnold Thackray, President, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia

Presentations:

• Michael Buckland, President, American Society for Information Science, and Professor, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley presenting Overview of the History of Science Information Systems.
• Thomas P. Hughes, Professor Emeritus, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia presenting Federal Funding of an Information Revolution.

Presentations:

• Bruce W. Lewenstein, Associate Profressor, Department of Communication and Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York presenting Facts to Fax: Cold Fusion and the History of Science Information.
• Timothy Lenoir, Professor and Co-Chair, History of Science Department, Stanford University, California presenting From 3-D Structure to Rational Drug Design: Shaping Biomedicine as an Information Science.
• Robert W. Seidel, Director, Babbage Institute, Center for the History of Computing, Minneapolis presenting Secret Scientific Communities: Classification and Scientific Communication in the DOE and DOD.

Session I: Science and Scientific Information Systems (Kings Garden South)

Moderator:

• Boyd Rayward, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Urbana

Presentations:

• Bernd Frohman, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario presenting The Role of the Scientific Paper in Science Information Systems.
• Geoffrey Bowker, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Scienc, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana presenting The Game of the Name: Nomenclatural Instability in the History of Botanical Informatics.
• Bernadette G. Callery, Librarian, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh presenting Common Names: An Introduction to the History of Cooperative Access to Databased Natural History Information.

Session II: Chemical Information Science Systems (Kings Garden North)

Moderator:

• Mary Ellen Bowden, Senior Research Historian, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia

Presentations:

• Helen Schofield, Chemistry Librarian and Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, England presenting The Evolution of the Secondary Literature in Chemistry.
• Kenneth Ostrum, Senior Scientist, Marketing, Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio presenting Chemical Abstracts Service: Ninety Years of Innovation in Chemical Information.
• Florence H. Kvalnes, Senior Information Scientist, Corporate Information Science, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware presenting The History of Handling Technical Information in DuPont.

Session III: Building Information Retrieval Systems for Science (Kings Garden South)

Moderator:

• Trudi Bellardo Hahn, User Education Manager, User Education Services, University Libraries, University of Maryland, College Park

Presentations:

• James M. Cretsos, Information Specialist, retired, Cincinnati, Ohio presenting Development of an Information Retrieval System based on Superimposed Coding.
• Jacqueline Trolley, Director, Corporate Communications, and Jill O'Neill, Writer, Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia presenting The Development of Secondary Services.
• Paul Wouters, lecturer and researcher, Department of Science and Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands presenting The Creation of the SCI.

Session IV: Information Retrieval in Science: The Professional Aspects (Kings Garden North)

Moderator:

• Robert V. Williams, Professor, College of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Presentations:

• Thomas Hapke, Subject Librarian for Chemical Engineering, University Library, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany presenting Wilhelm Ostwald, the Bridge, and Connections to other Bibliographic Activities at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.
• Jana Varlejs, Associate Professor, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey presenting Ralph Shaw: Librarian among Documentalists.
• Mark D. Bowles, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio presenting Science in Crisis: The Conflict over Information Retrieval, 1945-1963.

Moderator:

• Arnold Thackray, President, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia

Presentation:

• Eugene Garfield, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Institute for Scientific Information, and President and Editor-in-Chief, The Scientist, Philadelphia presenting On the Shoulders of Giants.