Records of Western Pennsylvania Buhl Network, 1976-1988.
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Buhl Foundation
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The Buhl Foundation was established in 1927 as stipulated in Henry Buhl, Jr.'s will, for" religious, charitable, educational and public uses." It has provided grants for universities, hospitals and public programs including the University of Pittsburgh, Buhl Planetarium, Chatham Village and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. From the description of Records 1869-1980 1927-1980. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 34428614 ...
University of Pittsburgh. United Faculty
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Throughout its history the University of Pittsburgh has received occasional support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the early 1960s it suffered an unprecedented fiscal crisis and sought a solution that linked it to the Commonwealth. On August 23, 1966, House Bill No. 2 of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania was signed and the University officially became state-related. From the description of State-related status of the University of Pittsburgh files, 1936-1983. (Universit...
Western Pennsylvania Buhl Network
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The Western Pennsylvania Buhl Network (WEBNET) was conceived by Allen Kent, Office of Communication Programs, University of Pittsburgh. WEBNET's purpose was to develop resource sharing among libraries in the Pittsburgh area. In 1974 the Buhl Foundation awarded a grant that ran until 1980 to set up both a technical and public services module. In 1980 a second grant from the Buhl Foundation was awarded for the development of a circulation module which was completed in 1983. WEBNET was awarded a th...
Kent, Allen.
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Allen Kent (1921- ), one of the nation's pioneers in information retrieval, established, in 1963, a center dealing with teaching, technology and research related to knowledge availability systems at the University of Pittsburgh. Kent graduated from City College of New York with a B.S. in chemistry in 1942. From 1955 to 1963 Kent was the Associate Director and an Associate Professor of the Documentation and Communications Research Center at Western Reserve University of Ohio. ...
