Michael Buckland

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Michael Buckland is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Sheffield, Lancaster University, University of Oxford

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Michael Buckland's Degrees

Bachelors History University of Oxford
Masters History University of Oxford
Masters Library Science University of California, Berkeley
PhD Library Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Keeble Buckland is an emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and co-director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. Buckland was born and grew up in England. He entered library work as a trainee at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford after studying history at that university. After taking his professional qualification in librarianship from the University of Sheffield 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 .

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Information as thing (1991) (1165)
The Relationship between Recall and Precision (1994) (725)
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (2006) (413)
Information and information systems (1991) (336)
What Is a "Document"? (1997) (299)
What kind of science can information science be? (2012) (116)
Book availability and the library user (1975) (100)
Library services in theory and context (1983) (94)
Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto (1992) (85)
Documentation, Information Science, and Library Science in the USA (1996) (85)
What is a digital document (1998) (82)
History of Information Science (1995) (73)
Mapping Entry Vocabulary to Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies (1999) (68)
Five Grand Challenges for Library Research (2003) (58)
Vocabulary as a Central Concept in Library and Information Science (1999) (58)
Emanuel Goldberg, electronic document retrieval, and Vannevar Bush's Memex (1992) (58)
The Landscape of Information Science: The American Society for Information Science at 62 (1999) (56)
Time period directories: a metadata infrastructure for placing events in temporal and geographic context (2006) (40)
On the Construction of Selection Systems. (1994) (40)
An Operations Research Study of a Variable Loan and Duplication Policy at the University of Lancaster (1972) (37)
Historical studies in information science (1998) (36)
Document Theory: An Introduction. (2015) (35)
Information retrieval of more than text (1991) (34)
Information and Society (2017) (33)
Obsolescence in subject description (2012) (32)
Geographic search : Catalogs, gazetteers, and maps (2007) (32)
Entry Vocabulary - a Technology to Enhance Digital Search (2001) (30)
Combining Place, Time, and Topic: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (2004) (29)
Documentality Beyond Documents (2014) (29)
Data management as bibliography (2011) (28)
ARE OBSOLESCENCE AND SCATTERING RELATED (1972) (26)
In-Library Book Usage in Relation to Circulation (1979) (25)
Education for Librarianship in the Next Century (1986) (25)
Encyclopedia of Library History (1995) (24)
: International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet (1991) (23)
What will collection developers do (1995) (21)
Emanuel Goldberg and his knowledge machine : information, invention, and political forces (2006) (20)
The Roles of Collections and the Scope of Collection Development (1989) (18)
The centenary of “Madame Documentation”: Suzanne Briet, 1894–1989 (1995) (18)
Document, documentation, and the Document Academy: introduction (2008) (18)
OASIS: a front-end for prototyping catalog enhancements (1992) (18)
Advanced Search Technologies for Unfamiliar Metadata (1999) (18)
Methodological problems in assessing the overlap between bibliographical files and library holdings (1975) (17)
:Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship (2009) (16)
Expertise , Task Complexity , and the Role of Intelligent Information Systems (1990) (16)
Reference library service in the digital environment (2008) (16)
On the Nature of Records Management Theory (2009) (15)
Concepts of Library Goodness. (1982) (15)
Selecting Libraries, Selecting Documents, Selecting Data (1997) (14)
The Digital Difference in Reference Collections (2007) (13)
Information handling, organizational structure, and power (1989) (13)
Combining electronic mail with online retrieval in a library context (1987) (13)
Library Materials: Paper, Microform, Database (1988) (12)
Translingual vocabulary mappings for multilingual information access (2002) (12)
Relatedness, relevance and responsiveness in retrieval systems (1983) (12)
Expertise, task complexity, and artificial intelligence : a conceptual framework (1991) (12)
HISTORIES, HERITAGES, AND THE PAST: THE CASE OF EMANUEL GOLDBERG (2003) (12)
On types of search and the allocation of library resources (1979) (12)
Temporally Dynamic Maps: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Experience (2006) (12)
Little-used duplicates, cooperative collection development, and storage (1991) (12)
Filing, Filtering, and the First Few Found (1993) (12)
Bibliography, Library Records, and the Redefinition of the Library Catalog. (1988) (12)
Rejoinder to “Information as thing” (1991) (11)
Advances in Discovery: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Experience (2006) (11)
Domain-Based Indexes : Indexing for Communities of Users (2001) (10)
Expertise, task complexity, and artificial intelligence: A conceptual framework (1991) (10)
Foundations of Academic Librarianship (1989) (10)
Weeding Library Collections (1976) (10)
Information and Information Systems: New Directions in Information Management (1991) (9)
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (2005) (9)
Search across Different Media: Numeric Data Sets and Text Files (2006) (9)
On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century (2008) (9)
Naming in the Library: Marks, Meaning, and Machines (2012) (8)
Library technology in the next 20 years (2017) (8)
Design for an Adaptive Library Catalog. (1992) (8)
INFORMATION SCHOOLS: A MONK, LIBRARY SCIENCE, AND THE INFORMATION AGE (2005) (8)
Before the Antelope: Robert Pagès on Documents (2017) (7)
Systems Analysis of a University Library; Final Report on a Research Project. (1970) (6)
Some implications for library management of scattering and obsolescence (1970) (6)
The Philosophy of Information (2013) (6)
Partnerships in Navigation: An Information Retrieval Research Agenda. (1995) (6)
TIMELINESAs we may recall: four forgotten pioneers (2009) (6)
iSchools and l-schools: Converging or diverging communities? (2012) (6)
Pluri, multi-, trans- meta- and interdisciplinary nature of LIS. Does it really matter? (2014) (6)
Geographies of information (2009) (5)
Emmanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, and Vannevar Bush's Memex (1992) (5)
The retrieval problem in photography (1932). Emanuel Goldberg (1881–1970) (1992) (5)
Description and search: metadata as infrastructure (2007) (5)
Metadata as infrastructure: What, where, when and who (2006) (5)
Boyd Rayward, Documentation, and Information Science (2013) (5)
Editorial control over linked data (2011) (5)
Ten years progress in quantitative research on libraries. (1978) (4)
Decentralized coordination of controlled vocabularies (2014) (4)
A Brief Biography of Suzanne Rene Briet (2005) (4)
An Analytical Approach to Duplication and Availability. University of Lancaster Library Occasional Papers, No. 2. (1968) (4)
The Physical, Mental and Social Dimensions of Documents (2016) (4)
The Kinamo movie camera, Emanuel Goldberg and Joris Ivens (2008) (4)
4W vocabulary mapping across diverse reference genres (2008) (4)
Knowledge organization and the technology of intellectual work (2014) (4)
An Experimental Facility for Imaging of Medium Scale Underwater Explosions (2003) (4)
OASIS: Prototyping Graphical Interfaces to Networked Information. (1993) (4)
Emanuel Goldberg and his knowledge machine (2006) (4)
Integrating collaborative bibliography and research (2012) (3)
Support for the Learner: What, Where, When, and Who Final Report (2007) (3)
DESCRIPTION AND SEARCH: METADATA AS INFRASTRUCTURE :: Brapci 2.0 (2018) (3)
Union Records and Dossiers: Extended Bibliographic Information Objects. (1994) (3)
Making a library catalog adaptive (1992) (3)
An analytical study of library book duplication and availability (1969) (3)
Entry Vocabulary, Intermediaries, and Retrieval Performance. (2001) (3)
Interrogating Spatial Analogies Relating to Knowledge Organization: Paul Otlet and Others (2013) (3)
National and International Implications of the Linked Systems Protocol for Online Bibliographic Systems (1988) (3)
Re-positioning information science (2010) (2)
The Management Review and Analysis Program: A Symposium. (1976) (2)
Some European Contributions to Information Science (2017) (2)
Democratic theory in library information science (2008) (2)
Agenda for Online Catalog Designers (1992) (2)
Preoblikovanje knjižničnih službi i usluga : program (2000) (2)
Open Notebook Humanities: Promise and Problems (2013) (2)
Education for information management : directions for the future : record of a conference cosponsored by the Information Institute, International Academy at Santa Barbara, and the Association of American Library Schools, May 6-8, 1982 (1983) (2)
THE QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF REGIONAL UNION CATALOGUES (1967) (2)
Classification, Links, and Contexts: Making Sense and Using Logic. (2015) (2)
Le centenaire de Madame Documentation Suzanne Briet, 1894-1989 (1995) (2)
Using Linked Library Data in Working Research Notes (2013) (2)
Events as a structuring device in biographical mark‐up and metadata (2010) (2)
Studies in multimedia : state-of-the-art solutions in multimedia and hypertext : proceedings of the 1991 Mid-Year Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, San Jose, California, April, 1991 (1992) (2)
From Fief to Clan: Boisot’s Information Space Model as a Documentary Theory for Cultural and Institutional Analysis (2016) (2)
Context, relevance, and labor (2022) (1)
Revisiting the foundations of information discovery and access systems (2008) (1)
Copy theory (2021) (1)
Pluri , Multi-, TransMeta-and Interdisciplinary nature of LIS . Does it really matter ? (2014) (1)
Context and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies (2011) (1)
Information quality: Definitions and dimensions; proceedings of a NORDINFO seminar, Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen, 1989 (1991) (1)
The Reference Collection in the Digital Library (2007) (1)
Special section: Narratives, facts and events in the foundations of information science (2010) (1)
Notes on the gupta-ravindran optimal storage model (1975) (1)
Tomato tomahto: European perspectives on information science (2016) (1)
Management information systems in libraries and information services; proceedings of a conference held at the University of Salford, July 1986: C. Harris (Ed.). Taylor Graham, London (1987) 164 pp. £18.00. ISBN 0-947568-18-2 (1988) (1)
Sources of Information for Operational Research Studies (1967) (1)
Suzanne Renée Briet 1894-1989: Checklist of Writings (2005) (1)
Library Systems Engineering: An Introduction. (1972) (1)
Information Science in Transition (2010) (1)
Editors’ Notes: An Example of Changed Mediation (2013) (1)
Redesigning Library Services : A Manifesto Foreword (2015) (1)
British University Libraries (1991) (1)
ASIS&T annual meeting award winners: Award of merit acceptance speech (2013) (1)
Technology and Management in Library and Information Services, by F. W. Lancaster and Beth Sandore (1998) (1)
Reflections on Suzanne Briet (2017) (1)
KNOWLEDGE MAP OF INFORMATION SCIENCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE FIELD :: Brapci 2.0 (2018) (0)
The principles of librarianship: Donald J. Urquhart, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1981, 100 pp., $10.00 (pb), ISBN: 0-8108-1470-6. (1983) (0)
Finding and providing context online (2008) (0)
Commentary : Reflections on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility In Library , Information , and Documentation (2002) (0)
Joseph Periam Danton (1908-2002) (2003) (0)
British University Libraries. Toby Burrows (1991) (0)
Memory Practices in the Sciences, Geoffrey C. Bowker. The MIT Press (2005), xi, 261 pp., $34.95, ISBN: 0-262-02589-2 (2007) (0)
Redesigning library services. A message from Michael Buckland (1999) (0)
Introduction to Robert Pagès’ “Documentary Transformations and Cultural Context” (2021) (0)
Pioneering women of the information age (2009) (0)
The other as a research agenda for information science (2012) (0)
Browsing with a metadata infrastructure for events, periods, and time (2008) (0)
Proceedings from the Document Academy (2016) (0)
Institutional Contexts of Education for Information (2019) (0)
What, Where, When, and Who: A Renaissance for the Reference Collection (2005) (0)
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Memory Practices in the Sciences, The MIT Press (2005) ISBN 0-262-02589-2 xi, 261 pp (2007) (0)
The Hoosier Way to Synergism. (1976) (0)
Finding explanations online: Easy queries AND trustworthy answers (2009) (0)
Open access to working notes in the humanities (2015) (0)
La table des matières: Roman (The Table of Contents: Novel) (2008) (0)
Do We Really Need Libraries? An Assessment of Approaches to the Evaluation and the Performance of Libraries. John Blagden (1982) (0)
Review for Information Processing and Management; Christine L. Borgman, (2000). From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-02473-X, $42.00 (2001) (0)
Saving working notes for future use (2014) (0)
Poster Sessions at ASIST 2001: A Welcome Resource (2005) (0)
Book Review: Information Science: Still an Emerging Discipline by J. G. Williams and T. Carbo (1998) (0)
Repositioning Information Science. (2010) (0)
Foundations of Information Science (2021) (0)
Some Implications for Library Management of Scattering and Obsolesence. University of Lancaster Library Occasional Papers, No. 1. (1968) (0)
The Centenary of "Madame Documentation": Suzanne Briet, 1894-1989 (1995) (0)
ASIST AM 2020. SIG HFIS panel proposal April 27, 2020 (2020) (0)
Infrastructure for the representation of events and their contexts (2007) (0)
Print, Automated, Electronic: University Libraries in the Next Decade (1992) (0)
Integrating Tools for Synthesis into Digital Libraries (2009) (0)
Temporally Dynamic Maps (2006) (0)
Collaboration: Bad Words and Strong Documents (2006) (0)
STORAGE AND SEARCH (2021) (0)
America's information wars (2019) (0)
Precise Zoological Information: The Concilium Bibliographicum, 1895–1940 (2016) (0)
Prototyping Enhanced Online Search Capability (2007) (0)
Marking Up Cultural Materials for Time and Geography (2007) (0)
Regulation and Stock Control in Libraries. J. A. Urquhart, N. C. Urquhart (1978) (0)
Library Education--Meeting the Needs of the Future. (1979) (0)
Circulation control: off-line, on-line, or hybrid (1972) (0)
Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents - Edited by Lisa Gitelman (2015) (0)
The reception of suzanne briet in the United States (2013) (0)
Open Identification and Linking of the Four Ws (2008) (0)
Library orthodoxies: A decade of change: B. Cronin. Taylor Graham, London and Los Angeles (1991). iii + 248 pp., $46.00, ISBN 0-947568-46-8. (1992) (0)
Rapid access to reference resources (2010) (0)
The Kinamo movie camera (2008) (0)
Making a Library Catalog (1992) (0)
Herbert Haviland Field (1868–1921): Bibliographer of Zoology (2016) (0)
Weeding Library Collections. Stanley J. Slote (1976) (0)
A ‘Lost’ Biography of Eugenius IV (1965) (0)
In Memoriam: Yale Mitchell Braunstein, 1945-2012 (2013) (0)
Geography, Time, and the Representation of Cultural Change: Experience from a Large Collaboration: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiatitive (2007) (0)
The Relationship Between Human Librarians and Library Systems (2017) (0)
Narratives, facts, and events in the foundations of information science (2009) (0)
SIG/ED and SIG/III—international aspects of information systems (1992) (0)
Managing the Economics of Owning, Leasing and Contracting Out Information Services: A. Woodworth and J.F. Williams. Ashgate, Aldershot, U.K., and Brookfield, VT (1993). xiii + 204 pp., $49.95, ISBN 1-85742-018-7 (1995) (0)
Encyclopedia of Library History. Wayne A. Wiegand , Donald G. Davis, Jr. (1995) (0)
Domain-Based Indexes (2001) (0)
Conceptions of information as evidence. Sponsored by SIG HFIS (2005) (0)
Submitted for publication. Draft of Nov 4, 2006. Description and Search: Metadata as Infrastructure (2006) (0)
The revival of the concept of documents in the theoretical foundation of information science. Sponsored by SIG HFIST (2005) (0)
Resilient Information Science (2022) (0)
Glittering in the dark: Memory, culture, and critique in light of the history of information (2018) (0)
History and Heritage Update (2021) (0)
Information Services in University Libraries. F. H. Ayres, J. Hall (1975) (0)
Rejoinder to Information as thing (1991) (0)
Advanced search technologies for unfamiliar metadata (demonstration abstract) (1999) (0)
From Bibliography to Documentography (2018) (0)
Rejoinder to Dean Koenig's letter (1992) (0)
Review - Christine L. Borgman, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World, The MIT Press, 2000 (2001) (0)
Historiography of information science (2007) (0)
Volume Information (1999) (0)

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