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	'''Wilfrid Lancaster''' (1933–2013) was British American information scientist.		'''Wilfrid Lancaster''' (1933–2013) was British American information scientist.

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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	'''Frederick Wilfred Lancaster''', widely known as '''"Wilf"''', was born on September 4, 1933 in Stanley, County Durham, England. He qualified as a librarian (as an Associate of the British Library Association) at what is now the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England, and worked as a librarian in England from 1953 to 1959. He moved to the US in 1959 and worked was involved in the design and management of MEDLARS, the [[National Library of Medicine]]'s computerized bibliographic retrieval system for articles in medicine and allied health professionsin Bethesda, Maryland, from 1965 to 1968. He then taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, from 1970 until retirement in 1992 and thereafter professor emeritus until he died on August 25, 2013 in Urbana, Illinois.		'''Frederick Wilfred Lancaster''', widely known as "'''Wilf'''", was born on September 4, 1933 in Stanley, County Durham, England. He qualified as a librarian (as an Associate of the British Library Association) at what is now the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England, and worked as a librarian in England from 1953 to 1959. He moved to the US in 1959 and worked was involved in the design and management of MEDLARS, the [[National Library of Medicine]]'s computerized bibliographic retrieval system for articles in medicine and allied health professionsin Bethesda, Maryland, from 1965 to 1968. He then taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, from 1970 until retirement in 1992 and thereafter professor emeritus until he died on August 25, 2013 in Urbana, Illinois.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==

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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	'''Frederick Wilfred Lancaster''', widely known as '''Wilf''', was born on September 4, 1933 in Stanley, County Durham, England. He qualified as a librarian (as an Associate of the British Library Association) at what is now the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England, and worked as a librarian in England from 1953 to 1959. He moved to the US in 1959 and worked was involved in the design and management of MEDLARS, the [[National Library of Medicine]]'s computerized bibliographic retrieval system for articles in medicine and allied health professionsin Bethesda, Maryland, from 1965 to 1968. He then taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, from 1970 until retirement in 1992 and thereafter professor emeritus until he died on August 25, 2013 in Urbana, Illinois.		'''Frederick Wilfred Lancaster''', widely known as '''"Wilf"''', was born on September 4, 1933 in Stanley, County Durham, England. He qualified as a librarian (as an Associate of the British Library Association) at what is now the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England, and worked as a librarian in England from 1953 to 1959. He moved to the US in 1959 and worked was involved in the design and management of MEDLARS, the [[National Library of Medicine]]'s computerized bibliographic retrieval system for articles in medicine and allied health professionsin Bethesda, Maryland, from 1965 to 1968. He then taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, from 1970 until retirement in 1992 and thereafter professor emeritus until he died on August 25, 2013 in Urbana, Illinois.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==

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	Shreeves, Sarah. "Curriculum Vitae for F. Wilfrid Lancaster." ''Library Trends'' 56, no 4 (Spring 2008): 975-993 provides a detailed bibliography on pp 977-992. [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/9549] The ''Wikipedia'' provides a good list of Lancaster's principal publications. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster]		Shreeves, Sarah. "Curriculum Vitae for F. Wilfrid Lancaster." ''Library Trends'' 56, no 4 (Spring 2008): 975-993 provides a detailed bibliography on pp 977-992. [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/9549] The ''Wikipedia'' provides a good list of Lancaster's principal publications. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster]

	*''The measurement and evaluation of library services''. ~~Washington~~, DC: 1977. 2nd ed.		*"MEDLARS: Report on the evaluation of its operating efficiency." ''American documentation'' 20, no. 2 (1969): 119-142.
	*''Indexing and abstracting in theory and practice''. Library Association, 1998.		*''Information retrieval on-line''. With Emily Gallup. Los Angeles: Melville Pub. Co. 1973.
			*''The measurement and evaluation of library services''. Arlington, Va.: Information Resources Press, 1977. 2nd ed., 1991.
			*'' Information retrieval systems : characteristics, testing, and evaluation.'' New York: Wiley, 1968. Revised as ''Information retrieval today''. With Amy J. Warner. Arlington, VA: Information Resources Press, 1993.
			*"The Evolution of Electronic Publishing." ''Library Trends'' 43, no. 4 (1995): 518-27. [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/7940/bitstreams/27521/object]
			*''Indexing and abstracting in theory and practice''. London: Library Association. 1st ed., 1991; 2nd ed., 1998; 3rd. ed. 2003. [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/3849/bitstreams/13662/object]

	== Awards ==		== Awards ==

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	'''Wilfrid Lancaster (1933–2013) was British American ~~specialist in the evaluation of~~ information ~~services~~.		'''Wilfrid Lancaster''' (1933–2013) was British American information scientist.


	'''Frederick Wilfred ("Wilf~~") Lancaster~~''' (born September 4, 1933 ~~– August 25~~, ~~2013~~)~~[2] was~~ a ~~British-American information scientist~~. He ~~immigrated~~ to the US in 1959 and worked ~~as information specialist for~~ the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1965 to 1968. He ~~was a professor~~ at the University of Illinois, Urbana, from ~~1972 to~~ 1992 and professor emeritus ~~from 1992~~ until he died in ~~2013~~.		== Life ==
			'''Frederick Wilfred Lancaster''', widely known as '''Wilf''', was born on September 4, 1933 in Stanley, County Durham, England. He qualified as a librarian (as an Associate of the British Library Association) at what is now the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England, and worked as a librarian in England from 1953 to 1959. He moved to the US in 1959 and worked was involved in the design and management of MEDLARS, the [[National Library of Medicine]]'s computerized bibliographic retrieval system for articles in medicine and allied health professionsin Bethesda, Maryland, from 1965 to 1968. He then taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, from 1970 until retirement in 1992 and thereafter professor emeritus until he died on August 25, 2013 in Urbana, Illinois.

			== Contributions ==
			Lancaster's principal contributions were his development of practical techniques for the evaluation of the performance of information retrieval systems and numerous useful and heavily cited writings, e.g., his ''The Measurement and Evaluation of Library Services'' (1977; 2nd ed. 1991).

			Lancaster edited the journal ''Library Trends'' from 1986 to 2006.

			== Publications==
			Shreeves, Sarah. "Curriculum Vitae for F. Wilfrid Lancaster." ''Library Trends'' 56, no 4 (Spring 2008): 975-993 provides a detailed bibliography on pp 977-992. [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/9549] The ''Wikipedia'' provides a good list of Lancaster's principal publications. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster]

			*''The measurement and evaluation of library services''. Washington, DC: 1977. 2nd ed.
			*''Indexing and abstracting in theory and practice''. Library Association, 1998.

			== Awards ==
			*[[ASIST\|American Society of Information Science]]. Outstanding teacher award, 1980; Award of Merit, 1988.

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
	*"The Evaluation and Transformation of Information Systems: Essays Honoring the Legacy of F. W. Lancaster." [Special issue ~~edited by Lorraine J. Haricombe and Keith Russell~~]. ''Library Trends'' 56, No. 4 (Spring 2008)~~, pp~~. ~~731–739~~.		*"The Evaluation and Transformation of Information Systems: Essays Honoring the Legacy of F. W. Lancaster." [Special issue]. ''Library Trends'' 56, No. 4 (Spring 2008). [https://hdl.handle.net/2142/9483]
	*"Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster]		*"Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster]
			*''Frederick Lancaster Obituary''. Renner-Wikoff Chapel & Crematory. [https://www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Frederick-Lancaster]

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	~~Wilf~~ Lancaster (1933–2013) was British American specialist in the evaluation of information services.		'''Wilfrid Lancaster (1933–2013) was British American specialist in the evaluation of information services.

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Wilf Lancaster (1933–2013) was British American specialist in the evaluation of information services.

'''Frederick Wilfred ("Wilf") Lancaster''' (born September 4, 1933 – August 25, 2013)[2] was a British-American information scientist. He immigrated to the US in 1959 and worked as information specialist for the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1965 to 1968. He was a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, from 1972 to 1992 and professor emeritus from 1992 until he died in 2013.

== Further reading ==
*"The Evaluation and Transformation of Information Systems: Essays Honoring the Legacy of F. W. Lancaster." [Special issue edited by Lorraine J. Haricombe and Keith Russell]. ''Library Trends'' 56, No. 4 (Spring 2008), pp. 731–739.
*"Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster]