Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster

Frederick Wilfrid ("Wilf")[1] Lancaster (September 4, 1933 - August 25, 2013)[2] was a British-American information scientist. He immigrated to the USA in 1959 and worked as information specialist for the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland from 1965–68. He was a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana from 1972-92 and professor emeritus from 1992-2013. He continued as an honored scholar after retirement speaking on the evolution of librarianship in the 20th and 21st century.[3] Lancaster made notable achievements with early online retrieval systems, including evaluation studies of MEDLARS. He published broadly in Library and Information Science over a period of four decades and continuously emerged as a visionary leader in the field, where research, writing, and teaching earned him the highest honors in the profession. Lancaster excelled at many fronts: as scholar, educator, mentor, and writer.

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  1. Hayes, Robert M (Spring 2008). "A tribute to F. Wilfrid Lancaster". Library Trends. Retrieved 3 November 2011. Clearly, Wilf Lancaster is a superb teacher
  2. "Professor Emeritus F. W. Lancaster passes away". www.lis.illinois.edu. 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
  3. Speaker at An International Conference for Yunnan Provincial Library’s 100th Anniversary November 16-17, 2009, Kunming, China "The Changing Face of a Profession: Librarianship as a Career from 1949-2009." by FW Lancaster, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois. November 16-17, 2009 at the 100th anniversary of Yunnan Provincial Library. Kunming, China. Conference title: “Multilevel, Multicultural & Multiethnic Information Society.” in absentia.

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