Michael Keeble Buckland (born 1941) is an

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professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and co-director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.

Career

Buckland was born and grew up in

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. He entered

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work as a trainee at the Bodleian Library of the

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after studying history at that university. After taking his professional qualification in librarianship from the

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in 1965, he joined the staff at the Lancaster University Library in 1965, one year after it was founded. From 1967 to 1972 he was responsible on a day-to-day basis for the University of Lancaster Library Research Unit where a series of studies were undertaken concerning book usage, book availability, and library management games. In the meanwhile he received his PhD from Sheffield University. His doctoral dissertation, titled ''Library Stock Control'', was later published as a book titled ''Book Availability and the Library User'' (Pergamon, 1975). In 1972 he moved to the United States to Purdue University Libraries, where he was assistant director of libraries for Technical Services, before becoming dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at Berkeley, 1976–84. From 1983 to 1987 he served as assistant vice president for library plans and policies for the nine campuses of the

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. He has been a visiting professor in Austria and in Australia. His writings include ''Library Services in Theory and Context'' (Pergamon, 1983; 2nd ed. 1988, ), ''Information and Information Systems'' (Praeger, 1991, ), ''Redesigning Library Services'' (American Library Association, 1992, ), ''

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and his Knowledge machine'' (Libraries Unlimited, 2006, ), and ''Information and Society'' (MIT Press, 2017, ), recipient of the 2018 ASIS&T Best Information Science Book of the Year Award, and ''Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945-1952'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, ). His best-known publication is an article: "Information as thing", ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 42:5 (June 1991): 351-360. Buckland's interests include library services, information retrieval, cultural heritages, and the historical development of information management, including studies of pioneers of documentation, including Suzanne Briet,

, Paul Otlet, Robert Pagès, and Lodewyk Bendikson. He is co-director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and was the principal investigator, with Fredric Gey and Ray Larson, of several funded projects including Search Support for Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies, to make the searching of subject indexes easier and more reliable; Translingual Information Management Using Domain Ontologies, for improved translingual search support, and Seamless Searching of Numeric and Textual Resources, to facilitate searching across different kinds of databases. He was president of the Association for Information Science and Technology in 1998 and received its Award of Merit in 2012. He was inducted into the California Library Hall of Fame in 2021.

References

External links

Michael Buckland's home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Buckland, Michael 1941 births Living people American librarians English librarians English emigrants to the United States Alumni of the University of Oxford University of California, Berkeley School of Information faculty Alumni of the University of Sheffield Information scientists Historians of libraries