“The scientific study of the communication of information in society – “information science” in the sense of an academic discipline…”

—  Brian Campbell Vickery

Source: Information Science in Theory and Practice (1987), p. 11; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).

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British information theorist 1918–2009

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