Literature/2009/Buckland


 * As We May Recall
 * http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1620693.1620712

Editor's Note
Occasionally in studying HCI history, I have stumbled upon large topics that I was unaware existed. Perhaps the most surprising has been the development of advanced information technologies, which preceded computers. In some ways, the constraints imposed by those technologies forced deeper thinking about information itself. In this column, Berkeley Professor Emeritus Michael Buckland describes the work of four dedicated creative pioneers.---Jonathan Grudin

Author
Michael Buckland worked as a librarian in England and has also been a library educator and academic administrator in Britain and the U.S. He is interested in the redesign of library services in a digital, network environment and in the history of bibliography and documentation. Recent work includes the biography Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine (Libraries Unlimited, 2006). He is currently emeritus professor, School of Information and co-director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, University of California, Berkeley. He served as president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology in 1998. For more information visit, http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland

Summary
All four of the individuals spotlighted in this article contributed to the tools, methods, and theory we take for granted today, yet all four remain relatively forgotten. Please, take a minute to recall these pioneers.

Chronology

 * "FID was dissolved in 2002."
 * International Federation for Documentation (FID)
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * "FID was dissolved in 2002."
 * International Federation for Documentation (FID)
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * "FID was dissolved in 2002."
 * International Federation for Documentation (FID)
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * International Federation for Documentation (FID)
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf
 * http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v2p640y1974-76.pdf