Brian Campbell Vickery was a British information scientist

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 or high level of subject knowledge, providing focused information to scientific and technical research staff in industry, a role quite distinct from...

and classification researcher. In 1967 he married Alina Vickery (née Gralewska).

Biography

Vickery studied chemistry at the University of Oxford. From 1973 to 1983 was he Professor and director at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London.

• Brian Campbell Vickery, née McCay
• born 11 September 1918, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• schools in Australia, Cairo (Egypt) and Canterbury (England)
• 1941, MA in Chemistry, Oxford University
• 1941-1945, Chemist at Royal Ordnance Factory, Bridgwater, Somerset, England
• 1945 married (1) Manuletta McMenamin. Children: Sue 1946, Mike 1950
• 1945-1946, Assistant Editor, Industrial Chemist, London, England
• 1946-1960, Librarian, Akers Research Laboratories, Imperial Chemical Industries, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England
• 1960-1964, Principal Scientific Officer, UK National Lending Library for Science and Technology, Boston Spa, Yorkshire, England
• 1964-1966, Librarian, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, England
• 1967 married (2) Alina Gralewska
• 1966-1973, Research Director, Aslib, London, England
• 1973-1983, Professor and Director, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London
• 1983-, Professor Emeritus, University of London; part-time consultant

Works

• 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 (with H.East), 1971
• Information Systems, 1973
• The Use of Online Search in Teaching, 1978
• Information System Dynamics (with R.G.Heseltine), 1982
• Information Science in Theory and Practice (with A.Vickery), eds. 1987, 1992, 2004
• Intelligent Intermediary System: reference functional model, 1991
• Online Search Interface Design (with A.Vickery), 1993
• Scientific Communication in History, 2000
• A Long Search for Information, 2004

Recent developments in electronic access to the data of science, available at http://www.chemheritage.org/events/asist2002/30-vickery.pdf
Faceted classification for the Web, Axiomathes, vol.18, nr 2, pp.145-60, 2008, available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/106590
Guest editorial: Meeting the challenge, Journal of information science, vol.34, nr 4, pp.397-401, 2008.

External links

• http://iskouk.blogspot.com/2010/01/professor-brian-vickery-1918-2009.html Professor Brian Vickery 1918 - 2009
• http://web.archive.org/web/20100125050115/http://www.lucis.me.uk/ Web personal ]
• http://www.slis.indiana.edu/news/story.php?story_id=2132