A library and information scientist, also known as a library scholar, is a researcher or academic who specializes in the field of
library and information science
Library and information science(s) or studies (LIS) is an interdisciplinary field of study that deals generally with organization, access, collection, and protection/regulation of information, whether in physical (e.g. art, legal proceedings, e ...
and often participates in scholarly writing about and related to library and information science. A library and information scientist is neither limited to any one subfield of library and information science nor any one particular type of library. These scientists come from all information-related sectors.
Bibliometric mappings
Bibliometric methods have been used to create maps of library and information science, thus identifying the most important researchers as well as their relative connections (or distances) and identifying emerging trends related to LIS publications within the field.
White and McCain (1998) made a map of information science and Åström (2002), Chen, Ibekwe-SanJuan, and Hou (2010), Janssens, Leta, Glanzel, and De Moor (2006), and Zhao and Strotmann (2008) constructed some later maps of library and information science.
Jabeen, Yun, Rafiq, and Jabeen (2015)
[Jabeen, M., Yun, L., Rafiq, M., Jabeen, M. (2015). Research productivity of library scholars. New Library World, 116(7/8), 433-454.] mapped the growth and trends of LIS publications.
Notable library and information scientists
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Sanford Berman
Sanford Berman (born October 6, 1933) is a librarian (specifically, a cataloger). He is known for radicalism, promoting alternative viewpoints in librarianship, and acting as a proactive information conduit to other librarians around the world. ...
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John Shaw Billings
John Shaw Billings (April 12, 1838 – March 11, 1913) was an American librarian, building designer, and surgeon. However, he is best known as the modernizer of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of the Army. His work with Andrew Carn ...
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Suzanne Briet
Renée-Marie-Hélène-Suzanne Briet (; ; 1 February 1894 - 1989), known as "Madame Documentation," was a librarian, author, historian, poet, and visionary best known for her treatise ''Qu'est-ce que la documentation?'' (''What is Documentation?'') ...
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James Duff Brown
James Duff Brown (1862–1914) was a British librarian, information theorist, music biographer and educationalist. Most of his life was spent in London.
Biography
He was born in Edinburgh, but after beginning his library career in Glasgow, he ...
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Michael Buckland Michael Keeble Buckland (born 1941) is an emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and co-director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.
Buckland was born and grew up in England. He entered library work as a trainee at th ...
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Lois Mai Chan
Lois Mai Chan (Chinese: 麥麟屏, July 30, 1934 – August 20, 2014) was an American librarian, author, and professor at the University of Kentucky School of Library and Information Science until 2011. Her publications on cataloging, library ...
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Ingetraut Dahlberg
Ingetraut Dahlberg (20 February 1927 – 24 October 2017) was a German information scientist and philosopher who developed the universal Information Coding Classification covering some 6,500 subject fields. Her career spanned various roles in ...
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Melville Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an influential American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, a founder of the Lake Placid Club, and a chief li ...
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Douglas John Foskett
Douglas John Foskett OBE (27 June 1918 – 7 May 2004) was a British librarian and library and information scientist, and author of several special faceted classification systems.
Foskett was born in London on 27 June 1918. He received his BA f ...
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Eugene Garfield
Eugene Eli Garfield (September 16, 1925 – February 26, 2017) was an American linguist and businessman, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics. He helped to create ''Current Contents'', ''Science Citation Index'' (SCI), ''Journ ...
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Michael Gorman
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Allen Kent
Allen Kent (October 24, 1921 – May 1, 2014) was an information scientist.
Early life
He was born in New York City.
ASIS&T obitu ...
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Frederick Kilgour
Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914 – July 31, 2006) was an American librarian and educator known as the founding director of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), an international computer library network and database. He was its presi ...
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David A. Kronick
David A. Kronick (October 5, 1917 – February 12, 2006) was a librarian who researched the history of scholarly communication. He was once called a "bibliographic archaeologist".[Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster
Frederick Wilfrid ("Wilf") Lancaster (September 4, 1933 – August 25, 2013) was a British-American information scientist. He immigrated to the USA in 1959 and worked as information specialist for the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryl ...]
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Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Kathleen de la Peña McCook is a library scholar, librarian, and activist. Much of her work centers around social justice, human rights, First Amendment issues, and the freedom of information.
McCook has been active in a number of professional org ...
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Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov, or A. I. Mikhailov (6 December 1905, Russian Empire – 6 February 1988, Moscow) was a Russian/Soviet Engineer and Information Scientist. He was one of the most influential thinkers related to the field of Information ...
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Herbert Marvin Ohlman
Herbert Marvin Ohlman (1927–2002) is the inventor of permutation indexing, or Permuterm and is one of the pioneers of Information Science and Technology. He has been recognized and included in thPioneers of Information Science in North Ame ...
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Hope A. Olson
Hope A. Olson is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee School of Information Studies, School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She was previously a professor at the University of Alberta.
Fr ...
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Paul Otlet
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (; ; 23 August 1868 – 10 December 1944) was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and peace activist; predicting the arrival of the internet before World War II, he is among those considered to be the father of infor ...
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S. R. Ranganathan
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan ( 9 August 1892 – 27 September 1972) was a librarian and mathematician from India. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major fa ...
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Gerald Salton
Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton (8 March 1927 in Nuremberg – 28 August 1995) was a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time, an ...
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Claire Kelly Schultz
Claire Kelly Schultz (November 17, 1924 - May 28, 2015) was a leading figure in the early development of automated information retrieval systems and information science.
A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus con ...
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Jesse Shera
Jesse Hauk Shera (December 8, 1903 – March 8, 1982) was an American librarian and information scientist who pioneered the use of information technology in libraries and played a role in the expansion of its use in other areas throughout the ...
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Elaine Svenonius
Elaine Svenonius is an American librarian and library scholar, known for her research on bibliographic control, particularly cataloging, classification, and indexing. She is best known for bringing a philosophical knowledge organization approach ...
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Robert Saxton Taylor Robert Saxton Taylor (June 15, 1918 – January 1, 2009) was an influential library scholar and information scientist who served as Dean of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies from 1972 to 1981. His research and publications focus ...
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Barbara Tillett
Barbara Ann Barnett Tillett (born 1946) is a librarian and library scholar known for her work on authority control and bibliographic data modeling.
Library of Congress
Tillett began working at the Library of Congress in 1994. As director of the ...
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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 ...
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Herbert S. White
Herbert Spencer White (born July 5, 1927) is an Austrian-born American librarian. He is Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the School of Library and information science, Library and Information Science at Indiana University, a ...
See also
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Bibliometrician
A bibliometrician is a researcher or a specialist in bibliometrics. It is near-synonymous with an informetrican (who studies informetrics), a scientometrican (who study scientometrics) and a webometrician, who study webometrics.
Notable bibliometr ...
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Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science.
Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
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Documentalist A documentalist is a professional, trained in documentation science and specializing in assisting researchers in their search for scientific and technical documentation. With the development of bibliographical databases such as MEDLINE, documentali ...
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Information scientist
The term information scientist developed in the latter part of the twentieth century to describe an individual, usually with a relevant subject degree (such as one in Information and Computer Science - CIS) or high level of subject knowledge, prov ...
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Librarians
A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library providing access to information, and sometimes social or technical programming, or instruction on information literacy to users.
The role of the librarian has changed much over time, ...
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Library science
Library science (often termed library studies, bibliothecography, and library economy) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and ...
References
Further reading
* Cuadra, C. A. (1964). Identifying key contributions to information science. American Documentation, 15(4), 289–295.
* Feather, J. & Sturges, P. (eds). (1996). International Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. London & New York: Routledge.
* Persson, O. (1995). Forskning inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap i bibliometrisk belysning. IN: Biblioteken, kulturen och den sociala intelligensen. Aktuell forskning inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap. Ed.: Lars Höglund. Göteborg: Valfrid. (pp. 47–56).
* Persson, O. & Åström, F. (2005). Most cited universities and authors in Library & Information Science 1990–2004. Bibliometric Notes, 7(2). http://www.umu.se/inforsk/BibliometricNotes/BN2-2005/BN2-2005.htm
External links
Index of Information Science pioneers American Society for Information Science & Technology (1998)
Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems (1998)
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