Douglas John Foskett

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Douglas John (D.J.) Foskett (born June 27, 1918 - May 7, 2004) was a British librarian and library and information scientists, and author of several special ‘faceted’ classification systems.[1]

Born and raised in London, Foskett received his BA from Queen Mary College, London in 1939 and later on in 1954 his MA at Birkbeck, University of London.[2] He started his career late 1930s as librarian in the Ilford Public Libraries in Essex. During World War II he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and later in the Intelligence Corps. From 1948 to 1957 he was librarian at the Metal Box Company Limited company, and from 1957 to 1978 at the Library of the Institute of Education in London. The last five years before retirement he was Director at the Central Library Services of the University of London.[3]

In the early 1950s Foskett was among the founding members of the Classification Research Group. He was active member of British Library Association, member of Unesco's International Advisory Committee on Libraries, Documentation and Archives for five years, and Visiting Professor in MIT, in Ghana, Ibadan, Brazil and Iceland.[3]

Publications

Books, a selection:

  • 1952. Assistance to readers in lending libraries
  • 1958. Library Classification and the Field of Knowledge
  • 1965. How to Find Out: Educational Research
  • 1967, Information service in libraries
  • 1974. Classification and indexing in the social sciences
  • 1977. Notes on Compiling Bibliographies: For the Guidance of Students
  • 1980. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. With A. Kent
  • 1983. Reader in Comparative Librarianship
  • 1984. Pathways for communication: books and libraries in the information age

References

  1. ↑ Eric de Grolier (1962) A study of general categories applicable to classification and coding in documentation. p.67
  2. ↑ Foskett, Douglas (1918-2004) at aim25.ac.uk.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Wedeworth (1993) World Encyclopedia of library and information services. p. 299

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