INFORMATION OPERATIONS AT ESSO RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY

At Esso Research and Engineering Co., scientific and technical information has been brought to bear on company operations since 1919, first as a major special library, from 1957 to 1967 as a centralized information division, and since late 1967 as a combination of area-based information analysis groups and site-based information service sections. This new arrangement is in accord with the company's “corporate service field unit” management approach, which makes the various information functions directly responsive to the information needs of the functional areas which they serve. It does not reflect a lessened information effort. Within this new context, highlights are presented of the company's unique activities in information analysis, computer-based systems for library journal routing, and company reports distribution, indexing and searching, abstracting services, engineering-information applications, and wide use of microforms. © 1969, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.