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This paper describes a fully integrated technical service, as represented by the author's Department, and treats briefly some of the methods for finding and using technical information which are employed. As the integrated technical service is a component of the research‐design‐production complex and relies primarily upon the services of engineers and scientists, its concepts of data recovery—and its methods in general—are heavily influenced by the technologist's inherent knowledge of his subject and the relevant sources of information. It is concluded that much may be gained from the integration of technologists into the whole process of information dissemination and that integrated technical services may be of assistance in many fields beyond those in which they have already proved effective.