Biographies: Famous Personality

This section covers the famous person's contributions to the Library Science field.

1. H.E. Bliss (1870-1955)

• Bliss was a great American librarian who devised the famous 'Bibliographic Classification' in 1935

2. S.C Bradford (1878-1948)

1. Bradford was known for his contribution to the field of documentation. 
2. He was a trained chemist, born in London who later turned into a library scientist. 
3. A good supporter of UDC. 
4. The book Documentation written by him in 1948 was an original contribution to that field. 
5. He propounded the Bradford Law of Scatter regarding the appearance of articles on one subject in different periodicals.

3. J.D Brown (1862-1914)

1. An eminent British librarian who led the public library movement of Britain in the last part of the 19th Century. 
2. He was the first librarian that introduce the open access system in the public libraries of Great Britain. 
3. He founded the journal 'Library World' in 1898 which is still serving the profession. 
4. The Manual of Library Economy (1903) and his 'Subject Classification' scheme (1906) are his everlasting contributions to the field of library science.

4. Seymour Lubetzky (1825-1908)

1. Lubetzky was one of the greatest theoreticians of library cataloguing. 
2. Born in Russia, he went to the USA in 1927 to study at the University of California. 
3. At the request of ALA, he prepared a report analysing the ALA Catalogue Code in 1949 which was later published as Cataloguing Rules and Principles" (1953). 
4. This book was acclaimed as one of the classics of library literature that questioned the traditional practice of cataloguing  and paved the way for future cataloguing code (ie. AACR).

5. Jack Mills (1918 – 9 July 2010)

1. Jack Mills is a renowned library scientist from the UK who is also a great teacher of library science. 
2. He is the founder member and chairman of the World's first Classification Research Group (CRG) in London. 
3. At Present he is engaged in revising and editing the 2nd ed. of Bibliographic (BC 2) of Bliss.
4. He worked in the study, teaching, development and promotion of library classification and information retrieval, principally as a major figure in the British school of facet analysis which builds on the traditions of Henry E. Bliss and S.R. Ranganathan.

6. Paul Otlet (1868-1944)

1. A great name in the world of documentalists. 
2. One of the greatest pioneers of international organisation and Documentation belonging to Belgium. 
3. His ambitious Mundaneum project attempted to create a universal repository of all the world's recorded knowledge.
4. He worked for the establishment of FID in the form of the International Institute of Bibliography. 
5. One of the initiators of UDC convened the International Congress of Bibliography and Documentation in 1908. 
6. His Book "Traits de Documentation" was published 1934.

7. Panizzi, Anthony (1797-1879)

1. An Italian patriot who fled his country and took asylum in England in 1821. 
2. For some time he worked as a Professor of Italian at the University College of London. 
3. Later he joined the British Museum as keeper of printed books and rose to the position of its chief librarian in 1856. 
4. He developed the British Museum into a national library of England through the enforcement of the Legal Deposit Act and was also responsible for the design of the famous round-shaped reading room of the British Museum. 
5. The 91 cataloguing rules framed by him are an everlasting contribution to the profession

8. Fremont Rider (1885-1962)

1. He devised Rider's International Classification for the arrangement of books on the shelves of general libraries, a purely enumerative scheme of classification in 1961. 
2. A writer, editor and publisher of many books on library science. 
3. He worked as a University librarian and for some time was an associate of Melvil Dewey. 
4. He was known for his Book "Melvil Dewey: A Biography" 1944 (ALA)

9. W.C. Berwick Sayers (1881-1960)

1. He was a great librarian and an eminent teacher of library classification. 
2. Most of the prominent librarians and leaders in the library profession, in the first half of the 20th century all over the world, were his students only. 
3. Worked as chief librarian of the Croydon Public libraries for many years. 
4. His 'Manual of Classification' is a classic to be treasured by the profession forever.

10. Mortimer Taube (1910-1965)

1. Taube was an American information scientist, innovator, scholar and businessman, all in one. 
2. In 1952 he founded the Documentation Incorporation, the first information corporation in the world. 
3. This corporation undertook many innovative studies and pioneered in the field of information facilities management. 
4. He was specially known for his work on co-ordinate indexing using "Uniterms" which later formed the basis for computerized search strategy. 
5. His books include Studies in Co-ordinate indexing, Computers and Commonsense and The Myth of Thinking Machines.

References:

1. https://www.drlibsc.com/2016/01/pioneers-of-library-and-information.html

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Mills_(classification_researcher)