Report of the ADI Auxiliary Publications Program.

This article focuses on report of the American Documentation Institute's (ADI) Auxiliary Publications Program. One of the least known yet potentially most useful services in Documentation is that provided during the past 25 years by the American Documentation Institute through its Auxiliary Publications Depository. This program was started in 1937 by Watson Davis of Science Service in an attempt to demonstrate the usefulness of microfilm in storage and dissemination of scientific and technological literature or data. The ADI service provides an opportunity for the editor of any reputable or disreputable scientific, technical or other periodical, journal or serial to achieve the rare data, charts, diagrams, maps, bibliographies, etc.