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Claire Kelly Schultz
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| Born | November 17, 1924 |
| Died | May 28, 2015 (aged 90) Line Lexington, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Juniata College, Drexel Institute |
| Spouse(s) | Wallace L. Schultz |
| Awards | ASIS Award of merit, 1980 |
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| Fields | Information science |
| Institutions | Merck, Sharp and Dohme; Institute for Advancement of Medical Communications |
Claire Kelly Schultz (November 17, 1924 - May 28, 2015) was a leading figure in the early development of automated information retrieval systems and information science.
A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus construction and machine-aided indexing, innovating techniques for punch card information retrieval. While working as a librarian at the Merck, Sharp and Dohme chemical company she "developed a machine-sorted card system that employed Boolean retrieval logic. Her first use of punched cards in 1949 used the Mooers Zator system." This has been seen as a "transitional role of such punched-card systems toward later use of computers for information retrieval".
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