This paper provides a concise history and assessment of Iranian information science in the past two decades. Traces progress from early indexing projects to interactive data base searching. Assesses the importance of early course work, an early sophisticated technical information center, and the Iranian Documentation Centre's extensive activities. High lights from the implementation in a developing country of the American information science concept.
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