Lancaster, Frederick Wilfrid (1933- )
American information scientist. Immigrated to the USA in 1959; Worked as information specialist by the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., 1965-68; professor, U. Ill., Urbana, 1972-92 prof. emeritus, U. Ill., Urbana, 1992-.

F. W. Lancaster is in particular known for his work on online retrieval including evaluation studies of the MEDLARS-system. He has, however, an unusual broad and comprehensive authorship in Library and Information Science (LIS).

Literature:

Baker, S. L. & Lancaster, F. W. (1977/1991). The Measurement and Evaluation of Library Services. 2nd  ed.  Arlington, Va.: Information Resources Press.  (1st ed.1977; 2nd edit. 1991). 

Lancaster, F. W. (1968a). Evaluation of the MEDLARS demand search service. [Washington] U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service.

Lancaster, F. W. (1968b). Information retrieval systems; characteristics, testing, and evaluation. New York, Wiley.
 

Lancaster, F. W. (1978).  Toward Paperless Information Systems. New York : Academic Press.
 

Lancaster, F. W. (1982).  Libraries and Librarians in an Age of Electronics. Arlington, Va.:  Information Resources Press.

Lancaster, F. W. (1985). Thesaurus  construction  and use; a condensed course. Paris: General Information Programme and Unisist, Unesco.   

Lancaster, F. W. (1986). Vocabulary control for information retrieval. 2nd. ed. Arlington, Va.: Information Resources Press.   
 

Lancaster, F. W. (1988/1993).  If You Want to Evaluate Your Library. Champaign: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. (1st ed. 1988, 2rd ed. 1993).
 

Lancaster, F. W. (1991/1998/2003). Indexing and abstracting in theory and practice. London: Library Association.  (1st ed. 1991; 2nd ed. 1998; 3rd. ed. 2003). 

Lancaster, F. W. (Ed.). (1993). Libraries  and  the  future;  essays on the library in the twenty-first century. New York : Haworth Press.  

Lancaster, F. W. & Fayen, E. G. (1973).  Information Retrieval On-Line. Los Angeles: Melville Pub. Co.

Lancaster, F. W. & Smith, L. C. (1983). Compatibility  issues  affecting  information  systems  and  services. Prepared for the General Information Programme and UNISIST. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 

Martyn, J. & Lancaster, F. W. (1981). Investigative   methods  in  library  and  information  science;  an introduction. Arlington, Va.: Information Resources Press.

Generic group: Information science, biography

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 28-10-2006

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