- Curriculum Vitae for F. Wilfrid Lancaster
(Editors’ note: The editors have made slight changes to Professor Lancaster’s official curriculum vitae, with his permission. Sections such as those on academic background, employment, and publications are unedited. Sections such as those on consulting and presentations have been condensed into summary statements.)
Academic Background
Fellow (by thesis) of the Library Association of Great Britain, 1969
Record of Employment
8/92– | Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
9/72–8/92 | Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Editor, Library Trends, 1986–2006 |
1970–72 | Associate Professor, and Director of Program in Biomedical Librarianship (70–73), Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
1969–70 | Director of Information Retrieval Services, Westat Research, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland |
1965–68 | Information Systems Specialist, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland |
1964–65 | Resident Consultant and Head, Systems Evaluation Group, Herner and Company, Washington, DC |
1962 | Senior Research Assistant, ASLIB, London, England |
1960–62 | Technical Librarian, The Babcock and Wilcox Co., Barberton, Ohio [End Page 975] |
1959–60 | Senior Librarian, Science and Technology, Akron Public Library, Akron, Ohio |
1957–59 | Assistant Information Officer, Tube Investments, Ltd., Birmingham, England |
1953–57 | Senior Assistant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Public Libraries, England |
Honors and Awards
Memberships in Professional Organizations
American Library Association
American Society for Information Science
Library Association (London)
Consultant Services
Provided consultant services to more than thirty agencies and libraries in the United States and abroad, including: the National Library of Medicine (NLM); UNESCO; the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the American Film Institute; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke; the Arab League Documentation Centre in Egypt; the National Libraries of Australia and Venezuela; and the Bureau National d’Information Scientifique et Technique in Paris.
Invited Participation in Conferences and Lectures
Participated in more than one hundred national and international conferences and lecture series which resulted in extensive travel throughout the United States and to a long list of countries, including: Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Canada; China; Colombia; Costa Rica; Denmark; Egypt; England; Finland; France; Germany; Guatemala; Hong Kong; India; Israel; Italy; Mexico; Namibia; the Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Singapore; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sweden; Syria; Taiwan; Tunisia; Turkey; and the West Indies.
Universities at which Courses or Guest Lectures were Presented
Made presentations at more than seventy universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, Brazil, Israel, South Africa, Spain, China, India, Sweden, Denmark, Namibia, France, Norway, the Netherlands, and Singapore.