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Quotes from Information history – an introduction — Brian Campbell Vickery

1918–2009 United Kingdom

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The job of our profession is to facilitate the provision of knowledge (in all forms) to those who need it (for whatever purpose).

Information history – an introduction (2009)

Mass communications analysts concentrate on “who sends what information, for what purposes, through what channels, to which people, with what effect”. The information profession is more interested in “who seeks what information, for what purposes, through what channels, from which people and sources, with what success”.

Information history – an introduction (2009)

Perhaps the most important lesson that we can learn from information history is that information provision has been and must be closely related to information need, and that the information sources we provide must be closely matched to the tasks being undertaken by the community served.

Information history – an introduction (2009)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brian Campbell Vickery (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.