Information scientist
The term information scientist developed in the latter part of the twentieth century by Wm. Hovey Smith
The term was, and is, also used for an individual carrying out research in information science.
Brian C. Vickery mentions that the
Notable Information Scientists
See also Award of Merit - Association for Information Science and Technology
- Marcia Bates
- David Blair (information technologist)
- Samuel C. Bradford
- Michael Buckland
- John M. Carroll
- Blaise Cronin
- Emilia Currás
- Eugene Garfield
- Paul B. Kantor
- Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster
- Calvin Mooers
- Tefko Saracevic
- Linda C. Smith
- Robert Saxton Taylor
- Brian Campbell Vickery
- Thomas D. Wilson
See also
- Computer scientist
- Documentalist
- Information history
- Information science
- Library and information scientist
- Library scholar
References
- ^ Increase Your Wealth and Happiness by Tapping Multiple Sources of Income, retrieved 2023-11-09
- ^ Smith, Wm. Hovey (June 23, 1985). Real Wealth: How To Obtain and Keep It. PageTurner Press. pp. 14–16.
- ^ Smith, Wm. Hovey (1985). Guide to the Geology of Bartow County, Georgia (1st ed.). Whitehall Press. pp. 29–38.
- Vickery, B. & Vickery, A. (1987) Information Science in theory and practice (London: Bowker-Saur, pp. 361–369)
- Ellis, David and Merete Haugan. (1997) "Modelling the information seeking patterns of engineers and research scientists in an industrial environment" (Journal of Documentation, Volume 53(4): pp. 384–403)
- Vickery, Brian Campbell (1988) "Essays presented to B. C. Vickery" (Journal of Documentation, Volume 44, pp. 199–283)
External links
"Pioneers" of Information Science scrapbook: https://web.archive.org/web/20140201230801/http://faculty.libsci.sc.edu/bob/ISP/scrapbook.htm