“Perhaps the most important lesson that we can learn from information history is that information provision has been and must be closely related to information need, and that the information sources we provide must be closely matched to the tasks being undertaken by the community served.”

— Brian Campbell Vickery

Source: Information history – an introduction (2009), p. 246.

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British information theorist 1918–2009

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