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
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

Recipient of Festschrift from Essen University, Essen, Germany, 1995.

Recipient of fellowship from Spanish Ministry of Education for teaching and research at the University of Granada, February-June, 1994.

Fulbright Teaching Fellow in India (Indian Statistical Institute), 1991.

Selected by the University of Illinois as University Scholar for the period 1989–92.

Recipient of the G. K. Hall Award of the American Library Association for best book on library science, 1989.

Recipient of the 1988 Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science, 1988.

Appointed as Visiting Professor in the College of Library and Information Science, Wuhan University, 1988.

Fulbright teaching fellow in Denmark (The Royal School of Librarianship), 1985.

Recipient of the first Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, American Society for Information Science, 1980.

Recipient of the John Brubaker Memorial Award for the best paper of 1980, in Catholic Library World. Presented at the Catholic Library Association Annual Convention.

Recipient of the 1970, 1974, 1978, and 1992 award by the American Society for Information Science for the best book of the year on information science.

Recipient of the 1978 Ralph Shaw Award for outstanding contribution to the literature of library science.

Postdoctoral fellowship, Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Norsk Senter for Informatikk, 1976.

Fulbright teaching fellow in Brasil (Instituto Brasileiro de Informacao em Ciencia e Technologia), 1975.

Elected to PHI KAPPA PHI, University of Illinois chapter, 1971.

Paper “MEDLARS: Report on the Evaluation of its Operating Efficiency” (first published in American Documentation, April 1969) received “Best Paper” award in 1969 from the American Society for Information Science.

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.

Books

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