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“Systems transfer or transform materials, energy or information - and usually all three. An information system is one whose prime function is to transfer or transform information: the telephone system is an obvious example. This book concentrates on certain types of information system: those concerned with the transfer of information between specialists, mainly with reference to their work, and mainly based on documents. The focus is thus on specialised documentary information systems.”

Brian Campbell Vickery

Preface; First paragraph
Information Systems (1973)

“For the profession as a whole, it is necessary that our hard-won understanding of our discipline be handed on to the next generation in a formal way.”

Brian Campbell Vickery

Source: A Long Search for Information (2004), p. 30.

“The representation of knowledge in symbolic form is a matter that has pre-occupied the world of documentation since its origin. The problem is now relevant in many situations other than documents and indexes. The structure of records and files in databases: data structures in computer programming; the syntactic and semantic structure of natural language; knowledge representation in artificial intelligence; models of human memory: in all these fields it is necessary to decide how knowledge may be represented so that the representations may be manipulated.”

Brian Campbell Vickery

As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
Concepts of documentation (1978)

“It is with this whole cycle [between generation and use of information] that information science is now concerned.”

Brian Campbell Vickery

Source: Information Science in Theory and Practice (1987), p. 9; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).