Abstract
At the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, in 1948, representatives of a growing body of scientific information officers sought to stake a claim to a new kind of professionalism. The paper examines the nature of the Conference discussion which presaged the formation of the Institute of Information Scientists in the United Kingdom. Current moves to foster a reconciliation between librarians and information scientists are possibly long overdue, but, as Cicero wrote, ‘to know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child’.
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