School of
Information Management & Systems
Previously School of Library & Information Studies
Michael Buckland, Professor.
History of Information Management:
Biographies
See also the Biographical list at History
of Information Management page.
- The
Pioneers of Information Science in North America Project.
- Suzanne Briet,
1894-1989: Librarian,
theorist, historian.
Paper about Briet;
Biographical note.
Translation of Briet's
What is
Documentation?.
- Vannevar Bush:
Antecedents and historical context of
Vannevar Bush's Memex.
- J. Periam Danton, 1908-2002, Dean.
- Herbert Haviland Field, 1968-1918, founder of the
Concilium Bibliographicum.
- Robert Gitler
and the founding of the Japan Library School,
at Keio University, Tokyo, 1951.
- Emanuel Goldberg, 1881-1970:
Electronics for document retrieval in 1931.
Portrait
Lebensbild.
- Obituary of
Fredric
J. Mosher, 1914-1999,
Berkeley expert on the history of the book.
- Wilhelm Ostwald, 1853-1932, and The Bridge
(Munich, 1911-1913): World brain, hypertext, A4.
- Paul Otlet, 1868-1944: Co-founder of FID,
pioneer of hypertext, workstations, etc.
Portrait.
See also papers by W. Boyd Rayward, Isabel Rieusset-Lemarié,
and Ron Day
reprinted in
Historical Studies in Information Science
- Virginia Pratt (1923-2006), Library School Librarian, remembered:
CU
News of Jan 11, 2007.
- Memorial in honor of
Raynard C. Swank, former Dean.
Go to History of Information Management
page or
Michael Buckland's
Home page