| 词条 | Douglas John Foskett |
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Born in London on 27 June 1918. He received his BA from Queen Mary College in 1939 and in 1954 his MA at Birkbeck, University of London.[2] He started his career in the late 1930s as a librarian in the Ilford Public Libraries in Essex. During World War II he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and later in the Intelligence Corps. From 1948 to 1957 he was Head of Information in the Research Division of the Metal Box Company Limited. In 1957 to 1978 he was at the Library of the Institute of Education in London, where he devised and implemented the specialist London Education Classification scheme to organize the library's collections.[3] The last five years before retirement he was Director at the Central Library Services of the University of London.[4] In the early 1950s Foskett was among the founding members of the Classification Research Group. He was active member of British Library Association. For 5 years he was a member of Unesco's International Advisory Committee on Libraries, Documentation and Archives. Also visiting Professor in MIT, in Ghana, Ibadan, Brazil and Iceland.[4] His brother, Tony (1926-2014), was also a librarian and teacher of information science.[5] PublicationsBooks, a selection:
References1. ^Eric de Grolier (1962) A study of general categories applicable to classification and coding in documentation. p.67 2. ^Foskett, Douglas (1918-2004) at aim25.ac.uk. 3. ^{{cite book |last1 = Foskett |first1 = D.J.|last2 = Foskett|first2 = Joy|title = The London Education Classification : a thesaurus/classification of British educational terms|publisher = University of London Institute of Education Library |year = 1974 |location = London }} 4. ^1 Robert Wedeworth (1993) World Encyclopedia of library and information services. p. 299 5. ^{{cite journal|first=Des|last=Tellis|title=Antony Foskett|journal=CILIP Update|date=November 2014|page=46}} External links{{wikiquote}}
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