Historiographs, Librarianship and the History of Science

The study of the history of science has recently taken on new importance as an academic discipline. It’s easy to see why. With the pace and complexity of scientific developments accelerating, the need for improved guidelines for scientific research becomes more obvious each day. As critical as today’s dilemmas of pesticides, pollution, and nuclear weapons are, applications of current scientific research could produce far more serious problems in the future. For example, the work of molecular biologists could produce a happier, healthier world population or, as suggested by some, it could produce