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	'''S. C. Bradford''' (1878–1948) was an influential British librarian.		'''S. C. Bradford''' (1878–1948) was an influential British librarian.

			== Life ==
			'''Samuel Clement Bradford''' was born on January 10, 1878 in London. He joined the staff of the South Kensington Museum in 1899, being in the library from 1901 onwards. He worked at this time in what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum. During 1911-14 he was in charge of the chemistry collections in addition to his work in the library. During the First World War he was lent first to the National Physical Laboratory and then to the Chemical Warfare Department. He became chief librarian of the Science Library in 1925, with the rank of keeper from 1930 to 1925–1937. He died on November 13, 1948.

	~~'''Samuel Clement~~ Bradford~~''' was born on January 10, 1878 in London.948) was an influential British librarian.~~		== Contributions ==
	~~Keeper~~ of the Science Museum ~~Library~~, ~~1925–1937~~.		Bradford aggressively increased the size and importance of the Science Museum library, seeking to make it national resource.

	~~== Contributions ==~~		He strongly supported the development of documentation, promoted the use of the Universal Decimal Classification, co-founded the [[British Society for International Bibliography]] with [[Alan Pollard]] as a "daughter society" of the FID and edited its ''Proceedings''.
	*Bradford greatly increased the ~~size and importance~~ of the ~~Science Museum library.~~
	*Founded the [[British Society for International ~~bibliography~~]] with [[Alan Pollard]] as a "daughter society" of the FID and edited its ''Proceedings''.		He discovered "Bradford's Law of Scattering," a statistical pattern in the dispersion of articles on a given topic across journal titles. This is one of the three traditional bibliometric patterns along with obsolescence and [[Alfred James Lotka\|Lotka's Law]].
	*Discovered "Bradford's Law of Scattering," a statistical pattern in the dispersion of articles on a given topic across journal titles. This is one of the three traditional bibliometric patterns along with obsolescence and [[Alfred James Lotka\|Lotka's Law]].

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
	*"A short account of the Science Library and the Science Museum, South Kensington." ''Aslib ~~proceedings~~'' 1 (1924): 27-29. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006951327]		*"A short account of the Science Library and the Science Museum, South Kensington." ''Aslib Proceedings'' 1 (1924): 27-29. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006951327]
	*"Sources of information on specific subjects." Reprinted ''Journal of Information ~~science~~'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 176–180.		*"Sources of information on specific subjects." Reprinted in the ''Journal of Information Science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 176–180.
	*''Documentation.'' London, C. Lockwood, 1948. 2nd ed., with an introduction by [[Jesse Hauk Shera\|Jesse H. Shera]] and [[Margaret Egan]]. London, C. Lockwood, 1953.		*''Documentation.'' London, C. Lockwood, 1948. 2nd ed., with an introduction by [[Jesse Hauk Shera\|Jesse H. Shera]] and [[Margaret Egan]]. London, C. Lockwood, 1953.

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	*Brookes, B. C. "'Sources of information on specific subjects' by S. C. Bradford." ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 173–175.		*Brookes, B. C. "'Sources of information on specific subjects' by S. C. Bradford." ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 173–175.
	*Brookes, B. C. "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science." ''Nature'' 224, no. 5223 (1969): 953–956.		*Brookes, B. C. "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science." ''Nature'' 224, no. 5223 (1969): 953–956.
			*Wilkinson, E.A. "The ambiguity of Bradford’s law." ''Journal of Documentation'' 28 (1972): 122-130.
			*Meadows, Jack. "S.C. Bradford and documentation: a review article." ''Journal of Librarianship and Information Science'' 34, no 3 (September 2002): 171-174. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/096100060203400305]

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	'''S. C. Bradford''' ( 1878–1948) was an influential British librarian.		'''S. C. Bradford''' (1878–1948) was an influential British librarian.


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	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	*Bradford greatly increased the size and importance of the Science Museum library.		*Bradford greatly increased the size and importance of the Science Museum library.
	*Founded the [[British Society for International bibliography]] with [[Alan Pollard]].		*Founded the [[British Society for International bibliography]] with [[Alan Pollard]] as a "daughter society" of the FID and edited its ''Proceedings''.
			*Discovered "Bradford's Law of Scattering," a statistical pattern in the dispersion of articles on a given topic across journal titles. This is one of the three traditional bibliometric patterns along with obsolescence and [[Alfred James Lotka\|Lotka's Law]].

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
	*"A short account of the Science Library and the Science Museum, South Kensington." ''Aslib proceedings'' 1 (1924): 27-29. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006951327]		*"A short account of the Science Library and the Science Museum, South Kensington." ''Aslib proceedings'' 1 (1924): 27-29. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006951327]
	*"Sources of information on specific subjects." Reprinted ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 176–180.		*"Sources of information on specific subjects." Reprinted ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 176–180.
	*''Documentation.'' London, C. Lockwood, 1948. 2nd ed., with an introduction by [[Jesse Hauk Shera\|Jesse H. Shera]] and [[Margaret E. Egan]]. London, C. Lockwood, 1953.		*''Documentation.'' London, C. Lockwood, 1948. 2nd ed., with an introduction by [[Jesse Hauk Shera\|Jesse H. Shera]] and [[Margaret Egan]]. London, C. Lockwood, 1953.

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==

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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
			*"A short account of the Science Library and the Science Museum, South Kensington." ''Aslib proceedings'' 1 (1924): 27-29. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006951327]
	*"Sources of information on specific subjects." Reprinted ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 176–180.		*"Sources of information on specific subjects." Reprinted ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 176–180.
			*''Documentation.'' London, C. Lockwood, 1948. 2nd ed., with an introduction by [[Jesse Hauk Shera\|Jesse H. Shera]] and [[Margaret E. Egan]]. London, C. Lockwood, 1953.

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
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	*Brookes, B. C. "'Sources of information on specific subjects' by S. C. Bradford." ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 173–175.		*Brookes, B. C. "'Sources of information on specific subjects' by S. C. Bradford." ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 173–175.
	*Brookes, B. C. "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science." ''Nature'' 224, no. 5223 (1969): 953–956.		*Brookes, B. C. "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science." ''Nature'' 224, no. 5223 (1969): 953–956.
	*Martin, L. C. "Prof. Alan F. C. Pollard." ''Nature'' 162, no. 4122 (Oct. 30, 1948): 686–687. [https://doi.org/10.1038/162686a0] Alan Faraday Campbell Pollard.
			TEMPORARY NOTES
			*Martin, L. C. "Prof. Alan F. C. Pollard." ''Nature'' 162, no. 4122 (Oct. 30, 1948): 686–687. [https://doi.org/10.1038/162686a0]
			Alan Faraday Campbell Pollard.
			*Pollard, A. F. C. "The World List of Scientific Periodicals." ''Aslib proceedings'' 1 (1924) 78--79 [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006951327]
			British Society for International Bibliography
			[https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap146]
			[https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa110002571/records-of-the-british-society-for-international-bibliography]

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	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	*Bradford greatly increased the size and importance of the Science Museum library.		*Bradford greatly increased the size and importance of the Science Museum library.
	*Founded the British Society for International bibliography.		*Founded the [[British Society for International bibliography]] with [[Alan Pollard]].

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
	*"Sources of information on specific subjects."		*"Sources of information on specific subjects." Reprinted ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 176–180.
	Reprinted ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 176–180.

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
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	*Brookes, B. C. "'Sources of information on specific subjects' by S. C. Bradford." ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 173–175.		*Brookes, B. C. "'Sources of information on specific subjects' by S. C. Bradford." ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 173–175.
	*Brookes, B. C. "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science." ''Nature'' 224, no. 5223 (1969): 953–956.		*Brookes, B. C. "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science." ''Nature'' 224, no. 5223 (1969): 953–956.
			*Martin, L. C. "Prof. Alan F. C. Pollard." ''Nature'' 162, no. 4122 (Oct. 30, 1948): 686–687. [https://doi.org/10.1038/162686a0] Alan Faraday Campbell Pollard.

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	'''S. C. Bradford''' ( 1878–1948) was an influential British librarian.		'''S. C. Bradford''' ( 1878–1948) was an influential British librarian.


			'''Samuel Clement Bradford''' was born on January 10, 1878 in London.948) was an influential British librarian.
			Keeper of the Science Museum Library, 1925–1937.

			== Contributions ==
			*Bradford greatly increased the size and importance of the Science Museum library.
			*Founded the British Society for International bibliography.

			== Publications ==
			*"Sources of information on specific subjects."
			Reprinted ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 176–180.

			== Further reading ==
			*Pledge, H. T. "Dr. S. C. Bradford." ''Nature'' 162, no. 4128 (Dec 11, 1948): 917–918.
			*"Recollections of a colleague whose memory may be at fault", ''Journal of Documentation'', 33, no. 3 (1977): 173-179.
			*Brookes, B. C. "'Sources of information on specific subjects' by S. C. Bradford." ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 173–175.
			*Brookes, B. C. "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science." ''Nature'' 224, no. 5223 (1969): 953–956.

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	*Brookes, B. C. "'Sources of information on specific subjects' by S. C. Bradford." ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 173–175.		*Brookes, B. C. "'Sources of information on specific subjects' by S. C. Bradford." ''Journal of Information science'' 10, no. 4 (April 1, 1985): 173–175.
	*Brookes, B. C. "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science." ''Nature'' 224, no. 5223 (1969): 953–956.		*Brookes, B. C. "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science." ''Nature'' 224, no. 5223 (1969): 953–956.

	~~TEMPORARY NOTES~~
	*Martin, L. C. "Prof. Alan F. C. Pollard." ''Nature'' 162, no. 4122 (Oct. 30, 1948): 686–687. [https://doi.org/10.1038/162686a0]
	~~Alan Faraday Campbell Pollard.~~
	*Pollard, A. F. C. "The World List of Scientific Periodicals." ''Aslib proceedings'' 1 (1924) 78--79 [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006951327]
	~~British Society for International Bibliography~~
	~~[https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap146]~~
	~~[https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa110002571/records-of-the-british-society-for-international-bibliography]~~