Brian Campbell Vickery
Brian Campbell Vickery (
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London from 1973 to 1983.[1]
Biography
Vickery was born in
After the war he was assistant editor of the Industrial Chemist review in London, England, for one year. In 1946 he started his career as librarian at the Akers Research Laboratories of the Imperial Chemical Industries in
Aslib in London
, and finally from 1973 to 1983 he was professor and director, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London. After 1983, as professor emeritus of the University of London, he remained active as part-time consultant and kept writing.
Works
Vickery wrote a series of books about library science and related subjects[7][8] A selection:
- 1953. Recent Trends in Special Libraries, 1953
- 1958. Classification and Indexing in Science, eds. 1958, 1959, 1975
- 1960. Faceted Classification, 1960
- 1960. The National Lending Library for Science and Technology, 1960
- 1961. On Retrieval System Theory, eds. 1961, 1965
- 1966. Faceted Classification Schemes, 1966
- 1970. Techniques of Information Retrieval, 1970
- 1971. Computer Support for Parliamentary Information Service (with H.East), 1971
- 1973. Information Systems, 1973
- 1978. The Use of Online Search in Teaching, 1978
- 1982. Information System Dynamics (with R.G.Heseltine), 1982
- 1987. Information Science in Theory and Practice (with A.Vickery), eds. 1987, 1992, 2004
- 1991. Intelligent Intermediary System: reference functional model, 1991
- 1993. Online Search Interface Design (with A.Vickery), 1993
- 2000. Scientific Communication in History, 2000
- 2004. A Long Search for Information, 2004
See also
References
- ^ Cronin, Blaise (2010). In Memoriam. Brian Vickery: An Appreciation. Journal of the American Society for information Science and Technology, 61(4), 850–851.
- ^ Brian Vickery (2008)""Adam Cairns McCay 1874-1947"". Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
- ^ B.C. Vickery (2004) A Long Search for Information. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. p.1
- ^ Brian Vickery (2005)""Coming of age in the 1930s"". Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
- ^ Brian Vickery (2005)""What did you do in the war, daddy?"". Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
- ^ Who's who in Frontier Science and Technology (1984) Vol 1. p. 736
- ^ Bibliography of Vickery's publications up to 1987 in: Essays presented to B.C.Vickery, Journal of documentation, vol.44, pp.199-283, 1988.
- ^ Supplement to Bibliography of Vickery's publications. In: A long search for information, Occasional Paper 213, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.
External links
Wikiquote has quotations related to Brian Campbell Vickery.
- "Web personal". Archived from the original on 25 January 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
- Professor Brian Vickery 1918 - 2009 at iskouk.blogspot, 2010
- Remembering a Colleague: Brian Vickery, 2010
