Patrick Wilson, 1927-2003.

*New* Patrick Wilson, 1927-2003. Albanian translation by NPI Lookup, Mar 2024.
帕特里克·威尔逊（ Patrick Wilson, 1927-2003). Chinese translation by Matthew Ma of Ecigator, Nov 2022.
패트릭 윌슨( Patrick G Wilson) 1927-2003. Korean translation by PlayerAuctions. Dec 2022.
*New* Патрик Уилсон, 1927–2003 гг., Russian translation by Babur Muradov, June 2023.
*New* Patrick G. Wilson, 1927-2003. Spanish translation by Traducciones Barcelona, Oct 2023.

    Patrick G. Wilson grew up in Santa Cruz, California. He studied philosophy and librarianship at the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a bibliographer while completing his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on interpretation and understanding. After teaching philosophy at UCLA he returned in 1965 to the School of Librarianship at Berkeley, where he taught until his retirement in 1991. He served as Dean from 1970-1975 and 1989-1991.
    Wilson was mainly concerned with bibliographical control and with questions of information policy. He specialized in examining difficult questions. He wrote and thought with exceptional rigor and clarity, and some skepticism. His influence was small at first, except among his doctoral students, but it increased slowly and steadily. In 2002, the American Society of Information Science and Technology gave him the Award of Merit, its highest honor. His first book Two kinds of power: An essay on bibliographical control (1968) has come to be regarded as a classic. He was a gifted pianist.

Major publications
Two kinds of power: An essay on bibliographical control. (1968).
Public knowledge, private ignorance: Toward a library and information policy. (1977).
Second-hand knowledge: An inquiry into cognitive authority. (1983).
With H. D. White and M. J. Bates: For information specialists : interpretations of reference and bibliographic work. (1992).

Biographical
For a thorough analysis :of Wilson's academic work see Howard D. White. 2019. “Patrick Wilson”. Knowledge Organization> 46, no. 4: 279-307. Also available in ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization, eds. Birger Hjørland and Claudio Gnoli, www.isko.org/cyclo/wilson .
Oral history, Berkeley Bancroft Library. Online.
Berkeley Academic Senate obituary.