Brian Campbell Vickery

"I am whole-heartedly in favour of the profession learning more about the history of . We have a tendency to focus on the newest forms of information provision … neglecting the continued existence and …"

"An information retrieval system is therefore defined here as any device which aids access to documents specified by subject, and the operations associated with it. The documents can be books, journals…"

"Throughout life, all people are engaged in activities – practical or mental – trying to solve problems, activities that themselves give rise to problems. To solve these problems, people need knowledge…"

"A retrieval system can be studied at three levels:"

"Information science is concerned with every aspect of the chain of information transfer activities, but the heart of its interest is information search."

"All the elements of the process of “becoming informed”... are of interest to investigators other than “information scientists”… The totality of activity related to information today is necessarily a m…"

"The classification of subject matter may be carried out for all sort of special purposes - to arrange books on shelves, to group inventions in patents, to classify the raw materials, intermediates and…"

"Classification in documentation is a tool for selection. It is essentially a 'finding system' for subject items... It is an artificial language, designed as a tool to aid in the selection of informati…"