Brian Campbell Vickery

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. doi:10.1080/01639374.2011.531235.

Weblinks

Wikiquote: Brian Campbell Vickery – Zitate (englisch)

• faculty.libsci.sc.edu
• theoccasionalinformationist.com
• www.soic.indiana.edu