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UCL Department Of Information Studies
The Department of Information Studies is a department of the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The School of Librarianship of the University of London was created in 1919 as a school of University College London.Vickery, B. C. "London. University College London, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies" in ''Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science''. Edited by Allen Kent, Harold Lancour and Jay E. Daily. CRC Press. Volume 16. Page288and 289. The school was the first school of librarianship that was full-time. The school was shut in 1939 and opened again in 1945. It later changed its name to School of Library, Archive and Information Studies and then to Department of Information Studies. The Department of Information Studies centenary was celebrated in the academic year 2019/2020. The school formerly awarded a Diploma in Librarianship. From 1970 onwards, this Diploma was known as a Diploma in Library and Information Studies. From 1947, the school also awarded a D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCL Faculty Of Arts And Humanities
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (popularly known as UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities) is one of the University College London#Faculties and departments, 11 constituent faculties of University College London (UCL). The current Executive Dean is Stella Bruzzi, Professor Stella Bruzzi, FBA. Ranked 5th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2022), the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at UCL is recognised globally for both its teaching and research excellence. History In October 2013 it was announced that the Translation Studies Unit of Imperial College London would move to UCL, becoming part of the UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society. Departments The Faculty currently comprises the following departments: *UCL Arts and Sciences, UCL Department of Arts and Sciences *UCL Department of English Language and Literature *UCL Department of European and International Social and Political Sciences *UCL Department of Greek & Latin (Classics) *UCL Department of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Campbell Vickery
Brian Campbell Vickery (New South Wales, Australia, 11 September 1918 – 17 October 2009) was a British information scientist and classification researcher, and Professor and director at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London from 1973 to 1983. Biography Vickery was born in New South Wales in Australia, where his father Adam McCay was working as journalist, and his uncle James Whiteside McCay was an Australian general and later politician. Vickery went to schools in Australia, Cairo in Egypt, and Canterbury in England. He received his MA in Chemistry from Oxford University in 1941. He started his career as plant chemist in the explosives factory of the Royal Ordnance in Bridgwater, Somerset in 1941. In 1945 he married Manuletta McMenamin. 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 Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Jenkinson
Sir Charles Hilary Jenkinson (1 November 1882 – 5 March 1961)Johnson and Brodie 2008. was a British archivist and Archival science, archival theorist, regarded as the figure most responsible for bringing continental European concepts of archival theory to the English-speaking world. Early life, education and military service Born in Streatham, London, Jenkinson was the son of William Wilberforce Jenkinson, a land agent, and Alice Leigh Bedale. He was educated at Dulwich College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with first class honours in Classics in 1904. During the First World War, he joined the Royal Garrison Artillery, and served in France and Belgium from 1916 to 1918. Career In 1906, Jenkinson joined the staff of the Public Record Office and worked on the arrangement and classification of the records of the medieval Exchequer. In 1912, he was put in charge of the search room, which he then reorganised in response to criticisms made in the first report of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John MacAlister
Sir John Young Walker MacAlister (10 May 1856 – 1 December 1925) was a Scottish journalist, editor, librarian, and promoter of medical postgraduate education. He was the Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1901 to 1925 and one of the promoters of the Society's formation. Education and career John Y. W. MacAlister was educated at the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys and at the University of Edinburgh. He studied medicine for three years at the University of Edinburgh, but ill-health prevented him from completing his medical education. He was a sub-librarian for the Liverpool Library from 1877 to 1880 and a librarian for the Leeds Library from 1880 to 1887. He worked as a journalist for the ''Leeds Mercury'' and the ''Yorkshire Post''. In 1889 he became the founder, owner and editor of the journal ''The Library''. From 1887 to 1889 he was the Honorary Secretary for the Library Association and in 1889 obtained a Royal Charter for the Association. During WW I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Stevenson
Iain Stevenson (1950/1951-died March 2017) was emeritus professor of publishing at University College London. He founded the environmental publishers, Belhaven Press. Career Stevenson's first career was in commercial publishing where he worked for Longman, Macmillan, Wiley, and the Stationery Office. He later moved into academia and in 1981 obtained his PhD from the University of London for a thesis titled "Viticulture and society in the Herault (France) during the Phylloxera Crisis, 1862-1907". He was professor of publishing studies at City University, London and later professor and emeritus professor of publishing at University College London. He founded the environmental publishers Belhaven Press. In 2010, the British Library published his history of British publishing, ''Book Makers: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century''. Death In March 2017, Stevenson was hit by a car in Bishops Stortford Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, Dutch Reformed Church. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey (after Princeton University), and one of the nine U.S. colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution.Stoeckel, Althea"Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution", ''Conspectus of History'' (1976) 1(3):45–56. In 1825, Queen's College was renamed Rutgers College in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers, whose substantial gift to the school had stabilized its finances during a period of uncertainty. For most of its existence, Rutgers was a Private university, private liberal arts college but it has evolved int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Of Communication And Information (Rutgers University)
The School of Communication and Information (SC&I) is a professional school within the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The school was created in 1982 as a result of a merger between the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, the School of Communication Studies, and the Livingston Department of Urban Journalism. The school has about 2,500 students at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, and about 60 full-time faculty. The graduate program in information has been ranked number 7 in the nation, with the specialization in school library media ranked 2nd and several other specializations in the top ten, by ''U.S. News & World Report''. History Althoug ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas J
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its derivatives are especially popular in maritime regions, as St. Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers. Origins The name is derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος (''Nikolaos''), understood to mean 'victory of the people', being a compound of νίκη ''nikē'' 'victory' and λαός ''laos'' 'people'.. An ancient paretymology of the latter is that originates from λᾶς ''las'' ( contracted form of λᾶας ''laas'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock', as in Greek mythology, Deucalion and Pyrrha recreated the people after they had vanished in a catastrophic deluge, by throwing stones behind their shoulders while they kept marching on. The name became popular through Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, the inspirat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Robertson (computer Scientist)
Stephen Robertson is a British computer scientist. He is known for his work on probabilistic information retrieval together with Karen Spärck Jones and the Okapi BM25 weighting model. Okapi BM25 is very successful in experimental search evaluations and found its way in many information retrieval systems and products, including open source search systems like Lucene, Lemur, Xapian, and Terrier. BM25 is used as one of the most important signals in large web search engines, certainly in Microsoft Bing, and probably in other web search engines too. BM25 is also used in various other Microsoft products such as Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server. After completing his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cambridge University, he took an MS at City University, and then worked for ASLIB. He earned his PhD at University College London in 1976 under the renowned statistician and scholar B. C. Brookes. He then returned to City University working there from 1978 until 1998 in the Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Dalby
Andrew Dalby, (born 1947 in Liverpool) is an English linguist, translator and historian who has written articles and several books on a wide range of topics including food history, language, and Classical texts. Education and early career Dalby studied Latin, French and Greek at the Bristol Grammar School and University of Cambridge. Here he also studied Romance languages and linguistics, earning a bachelor's degree in 1970. Dalby worked for fifteen years at Cambridge University Library, eventually specialising in Southern Asia. He gained familiarity with some other languages because of his work there, where he had to work with foreign serials and afterwards with South Asia and Southeast Asian materials. He also wrote articles on multilingual topics linked with the library and its collections. In 1982 and 1983, he collaborated with Sao Saimong in cataloguing the Scott Collection of manuscripts and documents from Burma (especially the Shan States) and Indochina. Dalby later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David McKitterick
David John McKitterick, (born 9 January 1948) is an English librarian and academic, who was Librarian and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Early life and education McKitterick was born on 9 January 1948 to the Revd Canon J. H. B. McKitterick and Marjory McKitterick (née Quarterman). He was educated at King's College School, an independent school in Wimbledon, London. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1969: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) in 1973. He studied library science at University College London, completing a diploma (DipLib) in 1971. Career He worked at the Cambridge University Library from 1969 to 1970 and from 1971 to 1986. He was a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1978 to 1986. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: he served as its librarian from 1986 to 2015 and its Vice-Master from 2012 to 2016. He held the Lyell Readership in Bibliograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ovenden
Richard Ovenden (; born 25 March 1964) is a British librarian and author. He currently serves as Bodley's Librarian in the University of Oxford, having been appointed in 2014. Ovenden also serves as the Director of the Bodleian Library's Centre for the Study of the Book and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College. Ovenden is a trustee of the Chawton House Library and vice-chair of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. In 2009, he was elected chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition, replacing Dame Lynne Brindley in a post he held until 2013. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, having been elected in 2008. Early life Ovenden was educated at Deal Parochial and Sir Roger Manwood's School, Kent and at St Chad's College, Durham University, graduating in 1985. Career He has worked at Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland and at the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
