CREATION OF THE PROTEIN DATA BANK. Edgar Meyer, Biographics Laboratory, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Tx 77843-2128 USA.

A library has three principal characteristics: Location, holdings, and users. The years 1968-1971 encompass the stages of conception, gestation, and delivery of the PDB. While the PDB is fundamentally scientific in content, the thesis will be supported that technological factors were primary determinants which influenced these principal characteristics. The events and decisions leading up to the creation and utilization of the PDB will be presented from the vantage point of past, present, and future technologies.