“Varied views were put forward as to the content and priorities of information science, though there was general agreement that its central topics should be information organisation, dissemination and retrieval.”

—  Brian Campbell Vickery

Source: A Long Search for Information (2004), p. 25.

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British information theorist 1918–2009

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