Brian Campbell Vickery (* 11. September 1918 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australien; † 17. Oktober 2009 in Oxford) war ein britischer Informations- und Klassifikations-Wissenschaftler.
Vickery war von 1973 bis 1983 Professor und Direktor an der School of Library, Archive and Information Studies am University College London.
Werke 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 (mit H. East), 1971 Information Systems, 1973 The Use of Online Search in Teaching, 1978 Information System Dynamics (mit R. G. Heseltine), 1982 Information Science in Theory and Practice (mit A. Vickery), eds. 1987, 1992, 2004 (Brian C. Vickery und Alina Vickery, Information Science in Theory and Practice. 3rd ed. München: Saur 2004. xiii, 400 S., ISBN 3-598-11658-6.) Intelligent Intermediary System: reference functional model, 1991 Online Search Interface Design (mit 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, S. 198–203 (siehe: Bradfords Gesetz)
Literatur Robinson, L. & Bawden, D. (2011): Brian Vickery and the foundations of information science. Paper presented at the ISKO UK 2011, Facets of Knowledge Organisation : 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. .
Weblinks
faculty.libsci.sc.edu theoccasionalinformationist.com www.soic.indiana.edu
Kategorie:Informationswissenschaftler Kategorie:Hochschullehrer (University College London) Kategorie:Brite Kategorie:Geboren 1918 Kategorie:Gestorben 2009 Kategorie:Mann