Ted Hines
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Theodore Christian Hines (September 9, 1926-June 25, 1983) born in Washington D.C., was a pioneer in the use of microcomputers and microcomputer programs in libraries. He attended undergraduate school at George Washington University and received his Masters of Library Science (MLS) in 1958 and a PhD in 1960 both from Rutgers University. He began his career as a children’s librarian, and later became a professor of Library Science at Rutgers University, followed by Columbia University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Ted Hines advocated the Unit Theory of Operating which basically states, if bibliographic information is input to a computer program in the correct manner then it can be extracted for any use, i.e. thesauri, indexes, catalogs. With his wife Lois Winkle he designed a sample program called the Children’s Media Databank. The program was first constructed on a mainframe computer, and then transferred to a microcomputer for patron use. This program allowed a patron to search for children’s books by subject and reading level. A sample search query might be a 3rd grader with a 6th grade reading level on the subject of clouds.
The Theodore C. Hines Award was established in 1993 by the American Society of Indexers.
