Brian Campbell Vickery

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Brian Campbell Vickery (born September 11, 1918 in Sydney , New South Wales , Australia , † October 17, 2009 in Oxford ) was a British information and classification scientist.

Vickery was Professor and Director of the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London from 1973 to 1983 .

Works

  • Recent Trends in Special Libraries, 1953
  • Classification and Indexing in Science, eds. 1958, 1959, 1975
  • Faceted Classification, 1960
  • The National Lending Library for Science and Technology, 1960
  • On Retrieval System Theory, eds. 1961, 1965
  • Faceted Classification Schemes, 1966
  • Techniques of Information Retrieval, 1970
  • Computer Support for Parliamentary Information Service (with H. East), 1971
  • Information Systems, 1973
  • The Use of Online Search in Teaching, 1978
  • Information System Dynamics (with RG Heseltine), 1982
  • Information Science in Theory and Practice (with A. Vickery), eds. 1987, 1992, 2004 (Brian C. Vickery and Alina Vickery, Information Science in Theory and Practice. 3rd ed. Munich: Saur 2004. xiii, 400 pp., ISBN 3-598-11658-6 .)
  • Intelligent Intermediary System: reference functional model, 1991
  • Online Search Interface Design (with A. Vickery), 1993
  • Scientific Communication in History, 2000
  • A Long Search for Information, 2004
  • Bradford's Law of Scattering. In: Journal of Documentation 4, 1948, pp. 198-203 (see: Bradford's Law )

literature

  • Robinson, L. & Bawden, D. (2011): Brian Vickery and the foundations of information science . Paper presented at the ISKO UK 2011, Facets of Knowledge Organization: a tribute to Professor Brian Vickery, 4 - 5 Jul 2011, University College London, London, UK.
  • Vanda Broughton: IN MEMORIAM Brian Vickery, September 11, 1918 - October 17, 2009 . Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49: 42-46, 2011. doi : 10.1080 / 01639374.2011.531235 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Vickery, Brian Campbell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British information and classification scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , New South Wales , Australia
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 2009
Place of death Oxford