Schultz, Claire K.

Information retrieval systems expert and information science professor.

Claire K. Schultz was a leading figure in the development of automated information retrieval systems in the mid-to-late twentieth century. She became acquainted with automated information retrieval as librarian for Merck, Sharp and Dome between 1949 and 1957. Later she worked on natural language applications under John W. Mauchly at Sperry Rand's UNIVAC Division. She was involved with the automation of the Armed Services Technical Information Agency (ASTIA) and the development of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLARS/MEDLINE system in the early 1960s.

In addition, Schultz developed the information science curriculum at Drexel Institute of Technology and the Medical College of Pennsylvania, served as president of the American Documentation Institute (now the American Society for Information Science), and has written widely on information science topics including her Thesaurus of Information Science Terminology. Schultz retired in 1980 from her positions as professor of information science and director of libraries at the Medical College of Pennsylvania.