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	'''Michael Buckland''' (born 1941) is an information scientist and emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. He makes significant contributions to the history of information science and documentation, theoretical foundations of information, library services, and bibliography. In addition to the [[ASIST Award of Merit\|ASIS&T Award of Merit]] (2012), Buckland received the "Best JASIST Paper Overall" Award (2017) for "Information as Thing," published in 1991.		'''Michael Buckland''' (born 1941) is an information scientist and emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. He makes significant contributions to the history of information science and documentation, theoretical foundations of information, library services, and bibliography. In addition to the [[ASIST Award of Merit\|ASIS&T Award of Merit]] (2012), Buckland received the "Best JASIST Paper Overall" Award (2017) for "Information as Thing," published in 1991.

			Photo Available @ https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/

	== Life ==		== Life ==
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	* "Michael Buckland: In Conversation". ''Project Oneness World''. 2022-05-12.[https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/michael-buckland]		* "Michael Buckland: In Conversation". ''Project Oneness World''. 2022-05-12.[https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/michael-buckland]
	* Le Deuff, Olivier (2017). "Michael Buckland, précurseur et préservateur de l'histoire des sciences de l'information". ''Savoirs cdi''. Archived from the original on Aug 1, 2021.		* Le Deuff, Olivier (2017). "Michael Buckland, précurseur et préservateur de l'histoire des sciences de l'information". ''Savoirs cdi''. Archived from the original on Aug 1, 2021.
	* Williams, Robert V. "Temporarily a Librarian: Michael Keeble Buckland Oral History Interview". ''escholarship.org''. 2011-04-07.[https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01x9w0zs]		* Williams, Robert V. "Temporarily a Librarian: Michael Keeble Buckland Oral History Interview". ''escholarship.org''. 2011-04-07.[https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01x9w0zs]
	* "Speaker Biography: Michael Buckland". Museums and the Web. ''archimuse.com''. 2007.[https://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/bios/au_395013486.html]		* "Speaker Biography: Michael Buckland". Museums and the Web. ''archimuse.com''. 2007.[https://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/bios/au_395013486.html]

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	~~=== ''Biography Pending (April 2026)'' ===~~		'''Michael Buckland''' (born 1941) is an information scientist and emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. He makes significant contributions to the history of information science and documentation, theoretical foundations of information, library services, and bibliography. In addition to the [[ASIST Award of Merit\|ASIS&T Award of Merit]] (2012), Buckland received the "Best JASIST Paper Overall" Award (2017) for "Information as Thing," published in 1991.
	'''Michael ~~Keeble~~ Buckland''' (born 1941) is an emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and ~~co-director~~ of the ~~Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative~~.

	== Life ==		== Life ==

			Michael Keeble Buckland was born on November 23, 1941 in Wantage and raised in London, Staffordshire, and Stoke-on-Trent, England. After studying history at the University of Oxford, he began his library career as a trainee at the Bodleian Library. He received his professional qualification in librarianship from the University of Sheffield in 1965 and joined the staff of the University of Lancaster Library the same year, one year after the university was founded. From 1967 to 1972, he was responsible for the University of Lancaster Library Research Unit, where a series of studies were conducted on book usage, book availability, and library management simulations.[https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-05-2024-272]

			In 1972, Buckland received his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield. His doctoral dissertation, ''Library Stock Control'', was later published as ''Book Availability and the Library User'' (Pergamon, 1975).

			== Contributions ==
			In 1972, Buckland moved to the United States to Purdue University Libraries, where he was assistant director of libraries for technical services. In 1976, he joined the former School of Librarianship at UC Berkeley as Dean and served in the role until 1984. During his service, he oversaw the school’s transition to the School of Library and Information Studies. From 1983 to 1987, he served as assistant vice president for library plans and policies for the nine campuses of the University of California. In 1988, he returned to the school as a professor. At Berkeley his courses taught included Indexing and Vocabulary, Concepts of Information Management, Classification and Bibliographical Representation, Design of Library Services, and Access to American Cultural Heritages. From 1991 to 2025, he co-hosted his Information Access Seminar series with [[Clifford Lynch]] every Friday afternoon. He became emeritus professor in 2004 and has been a visiting professor in Austria, Australia and Sweden. Since 2000 he serves as '''co-director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative'''.

			Buckland is one of the most heavily cited authors in library and information science, and his scholarship spans over 50 years. Among his most influential contributions to information science is his reconceptualization of information itself, published in his seminal 1991 paper "Information as Thing". Closely related is his 1997 paper, "What is a Document?", which draws on the work of Suzanne Briet and expands the concept of documents beyond traditional textual materials. His publications, including five books, highlight the influence of pioneers, including [[Suzanne Briet]], [[Emanuel Goldberg]], [[Lodewyk Bendikson]], and [[Robert Pagès]], drawing renewed attention to European documentation traditions.

			Recognized as a leading figure in Neo-Documentation, Buckland is a frequent presenter at the Document Academy (where in [http://doi.org/10.35492/docam/12/2/25 2025] he presented on this very project, the Biographical Dictionary of Documentation and Information). His work has been funded by the [https://ecai.org/mellon2010/ A.W. Mellon] and [https://ecai.org/KnowledgeUnix/ Coleman Fung] foundations, the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to advance Information Science research.

			* Principal Investigator (with Christos Faloutos, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Tim Tangherlini, & Lewis Lancaster), "EAGER: [https://ecai.org/nsf2010/ Network Pattern Recognition Project]," funded by the NSF (award IIS-0970179), 2010 - 2011
			* Principal Investigator (with Fredric Gey and Daniel Melia), "Context and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies," funded by the NEH and IMLS (award PK-50027-07), Oct 2007 - Dec 2010.
			* Principal Investigator (with Fredric Gey and Ray R. Larson), "Support for the Learner: What, Where, When, and Who," funded by the IMLS (award LG-02-04-0041-04), Oct 2004 - Sept 2006.
			* Principal Investigator (with Fredric Gey and Ray R. Larson), "Going Places in the Catalog: Improved Geographic Access," funded by the IMLS (award LG-02-02-0035-02), Oct 2002 - Sept 2004
			* Principal Investigator, "Search Support for [https://metadata.berkeley.edu/GrantSupported/unfamiliar.html Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies]," funded by DARPA (award N66001-97-C-8541), 1997-2001
			* Principal Investigator, "[https://metadata.berkeley.edu/GrantSupported/seamless.html Seamless Searching] of Numeric and Textual Resources," funded by the IMLS (award 178), 1999-2002

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==

	''Library Services in Theory and Context'' (Pergamon, 1983; 2nd ed. 1988, <nowiki>ISBN 0-08-035754-7</nowiki>),		''Library Services in Theory and Context'' (Pergamon, 1983; 2nd ed. 1988, <nowiki>ISBN 0-08-035754-7</nowiki>)

			''Information and Information Systems'' (Praeger, 1991, <nowiki>ISBN 0-275-93851-4</nowiki>)

	''Information ~~and Information Systems~~'' (~~Praeger,~~ 1991~~, <nowiki>ISBN 0~~-~~275-93851-4</nowiki>),~~		"Information as thing", ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 42, no. 5 (June 1991): 351-360.

	''Redesigning Library Services'' (American Library Association, 1992, <nowiki>ISBN 0-8389-0590-0</nowiki>),		''Redesigning Library Services'' (American Library Association, 1992, <nowiki>ISBN 0-8389-0590-0</nowiki>)

	''~~Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge machine~~'' (~~Libraries Unlimited, 2006, <nowiki>ISBN 0-313-31332~~-~~6</nowiki>), and~~		"What is a “document”?," ''Journal of the American'' ''Society for Information Science'' 48, no. 9 (1997): 804-809.

	''~~Information~~ and ~~Society~~'' (~~MIT Press~~, ~~2017~~, <nowiki>ISBN ~~978-~~0-~~262~~-~~53338~~-6</nowiki>),		''Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge machine'' (Libraries Unlimited, 2006, <nowiki>ISBN 0-313-31332-6</nowiki>)

	~~''Ideology and Libraries: California~~, ~~Diplomacy~~, and ~~Occupied Japan, 1945-1952~~'' (~~Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, <nowiki>ISBN 978~~-1-~~5381~~-~~4314-8</nowiki>)~~. \		Lund, Niels Windfeld & Buckland, Michael (2008). "Document, documentation, and the Document Academy: Introduction". ''Archival Science'' 8 (3): 161–164. doi:10.1007/s10502-009-9076-3.

	"~~Information as thing~~", ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 42:5 (~~June 1991~~): ~~351~~-~~360.~~		"What kind of science can information science be?," ''Journal of the American'' ''Society for Information Science and Technology'' 63, no. 1 (2012): 1-7, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21656

			''Information and Society'' (MIT Press, 2017, <nowiki>ISBN 978-0-262-53338-6</nowiki>)

			''Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945-1952'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, <nowiki>ISBN 978-1-5381-4314-8</nowiki>)

	== Awards ==		== Awards ==
	ASIST Award of Merit, 2012
			* Emeritus of the Year Award, UC Berkeley, [https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2024/michael-buckland-awarded-uc-berkeleys-2024-emeritus-year-award 2024]
			* Tim Gorichanaz, Ronald E. Day, & Kiersten F. Latham (Eds.) (2024) ''Festschrift for Michael Buckland in'' ''Journal of Documentation'' 80 (3), https://www.emerald.com/jd/issue/80/3
			* California Library Hall of Fame, California Library Association, [https://www.cla-net.org/page/HOF2021MB 2021]
			* Best Information Science Book Award, [https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2018/bucklands-information-and-society-wins-book-year-award 2018] for ''Information and Society''
			* Best JASIST Paper of the Decades (1990s & Overall), [https://www.asist.org/2017/11/07/best-jasist-paper-of-the-decades/ 2017] for "Information as Thing"
			* Best JASIST Paper of the Decades (2010s), [https://www.asist.org/2017/11/07/best-jasist-paper-of-the-decades/ 2017] for "What Kind of Science Can Information Science Be?"
			* Distinguished Lectureship Award, New Jersey ASIST Chapter, [https://www.asist.org/2015/06/01/2015-distinguished-lecturer-award-dr-michael-buckland/ 2015]
			* Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, ALA LITA and OCLC, [https://www.ala.org/news/2014/04/michael-buckland-wins-kilgour-award 2014]
			* [[ASIST Award of Merit]], 2012
			* President of [[ASIST\|ASIS]], 1998
			* Fulbright Research Scholar to Graz University of Technology in Austria, 1989

	== Further Reading ==		== Further Reading ==
	Le Deuff, Olivier (2017). "Michael Buckland, précurseur et préservateur de l'histoire des sciences de l'information". ''Savoirs cdi''. Archived from the original on Aug 1, 2021.
			* "Michael Buckland". ''Wikipedia''. 2026.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckland]
			* "Michael Buckland Home Page". ''ischool.berkeley.edu''. 2025.[https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/]
			* "Information Access Seminar \| UC Berkeley School of Information". ''ischool.berkeley.edu''. 2025.[https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/ias]
			* "Michael Buckland \| UC Berkeley School of Information". ''ischool.berkeley.edu''. 2025.[https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/michael-buckland]
			* Hartel, Jenna. "Information as Thing by Michael Buckland—What Makes This Paper Great?". ''Information Matters''. 2024-07-25.[https://informationmatters.org/2024/07/information-as-thing-by-michael-buckland-what-makes-this-paper-great/,%20https://informationmatters.org/2024/07/information-as-thing-by-michael-buckland-what-makes-this-paper-great/]
			* "Michael Buckland: In Conversation". ''Project Oneness World''. 2022-05-12.[https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/michael-buckland]
			* Le Deuff, Olivier (2017). "Michael Buckland, précurseur et préservateur de l'histoire des sciences de l'information". ''Savoirs cdi''. Archived from the original on Aug 1, 2021.
			* Williams, Robert V. "Temporarily a Librarian: Michael Keeble Buckland Oral History Interview". ''escholarship.org''. 2011-04-07.[https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01x9w0zs]
			* "Speaker Biography: Michael Buckland". Museums and the Web. ''archimuse.com''. 2007.[https://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/bios/au_395013486.html]

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	Michael Buckland...		'''Michael Keeble Buckland''' (born 1941) is an emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and co-director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.

	== Life ==		== Life ==
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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==

	Information and Society.		''Library Services in Theory and Context'' (Pergamon, 1983; 2nd ed. 1988, <nowiki>ISBN 0-08-035754-7</nowiki>),

			''Information and Information Systems'' (Praeger, 1991, <nowiki>ISBN 0-275-93851-4</nowiki>),

			''Redesigning Library Services'' (American Library Association, 1992, <nowiki>ISBN 0-8389-0590-0</nowiki>),

			''Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge machine'' (Libraries Unlimited, 2006, <nowiki>ISBN 0-313-31332-6</nowiki>), and

			''Information and Society'' (MIT Press, 2017, <nowiki>ISBN 978-0-262-53338-6</nowiki>),

			''Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945-1952'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, <nowiki>ISBN 978-1-5381-4314-8</nowiki>). \

			"Information as thing", ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 42:5 (June 1991): 351-360.

	== Awards ==		== Awards ==
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	== Further Reading ==		== Further Reading ==
			Le Deuff, Olivier (2017). "Michael Buckland, précurseur et préservateur de l'histoire des sciences de l'information". ''Savoirs cdi''. Archived from the original on Aug 1, 2021.

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