Library and information scientist
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A library and information scientist is a researcher or academic who specializes in the field of Library and information science
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Library and information science
Library and information science is a merging of the two fields library science and information science...
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Examples
- John Shaw BillingsJohn Shaw BillingsJohn Shaw Billings was an American librarian and surgeon best known as the modernizer of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of the Army and as the first director of the New York Public Library.-Biography:...
- Suzanne BrietSuzanne BrietRenée-Marie-Hélène-Suzanne Briet , known as "Madame Documentation," was a librarian, author, historian, poet, and visionary best known for her treatise Qu'est-ce que la documentation? , a foundational text in the modern study of information science...
- Michael BucklandMichael BucklandMichael Keeble Buckland is an Emeritus Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative....
- Melville Dewey
- Henri La FontaineHenri La FontaineHenri La Fontaine , was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913.-Biography:...
- Eugene GarfieldEugene GarfieldEugene "Gene" Garfield is an American scientist, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics. He received a PhD in Structural Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961. Dr. Garfield was the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information , which was located in...
- Frederick Kilgour
- Frederick Wilfrid LancasterFrederick Wilfrid LancasterFrederick Wilfrid Lancaster is a British-American information scientist. He immigrated to the USA in 1959; Worked as information specialist by the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., 1965–68; professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1972-92 Professor emeritus, U. Ill., Urbana, 1992-.F. W...
- Gottfried LeibnizGottfried LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician. He wrote in different languages, primarily in Latin , French and German ....
- Alexander Ivanovich MikhailovAlexander Ivanovich MikhailovAlexander Ivanovich Mikhailov, or A. I. Mikhailov was a Russian/Soviet Engineer and Information Scientist...
- S. R. RanganathanS. R. RanganathanShiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was a mathematician and librarian from India. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major analytico-synthetic classification system, the colon classification...
- Wilhelm OstwaldWilhelm OstwaldFriedrich Wilhelm Ostwald was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities...
- Paul OtletPaul OtletPaul Marie Ghislain Otlet was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called "documentation". Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, one of the most prominent...
- Gerald Salton
- Jesse SheraJesse SheraJesse Hauk Shera 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 1950s, 60s, and 70s....
See also
- Bibliometrican
- Computer scientistComputer scientistA computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
- DocumentalistDocumentalistDocumentalist is a kind of librarian, trained in documentation science and specializing in assisting researchers in their search for scientific and technical documentation...
- Information scientistInformation scientistThe 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...
- Librarians
- Library scholarLibrary scholarA library scholar is a researcher or academic who specializes in the history or development of libraries or their internal processes, such as cataloging and knowledge organization .-Examples:* James Duff Brown* Melvil Dewey* Michael Gorman...
- Library scienceLibrary scienceLibrary science is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the...