Patrick Wilson Bibliography

Source: Based on an undated Vita of Patrick Wilson prepared in the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley probably in 2003.

Bibliographies

• A checklist of the writings of M. N. Roy. Berkeley: South Asian Studies, Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1957. Revised.
• Government and politics of India and Pakistan, 1885-1955: A bibliography of works in western languages. Berkeley: South Asian Studies, Institute for East Asiatic Studies, University of California, 1956.
• South Asia: A selected bibliography on India, Pakistan,Ceylon. New York: American Institute of Pacific relations.
• Science in South Asia, past and present: A preliminary checklist of writings on science in India, Pakistan and Ceylon. New York: Foreign Area Materials Center, University of the State of New York, 1966.

Books

• Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control. University of California publications: Librarianship, 6. Berkeley, 1968. Reprint: California Library Reprint Series Edition, 1978. Chapter 5: "Subjects and the sense of position," reprinted on pp 306-325 in Theory of Subject Analysis: A Source Book. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1985.
• Public Knowledge, Private Ignorance: Toward a Library and Information Policy. Westport, CY: Greenwood Press, 1977. ISBN 0837194857.
• Second-hand Knowledge: An Inquiry into Cognitive Authority. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. ISBN 0313237638. Chapter 6 “Information retrieval and cognitive authority” reprinted in Knowledge management tools, Rudy L. Ruggles III. ed. Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. ISBN 9780750698498

Collections

• For Information Specialists: Interpretations of Reference and Bibliographic work. Howard D. White, Marcia Bates, Patrick Wilson. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1992.
• Information Science: From the Development of the Discipline to Social Interaction. Johan Olaisen, Erland Munch-Petersen, eds. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1966.

Articles

• "Austin on Knowing," Inquiry (Oslo) 3 (1960): 49-60.
• "Quine on Translation," Inquiry (Oslo) 8 (1965): 198-211.
• "The Need to Justify," Monist 50 (1966): 267-80.
• "Situational Relevance," Information Storage and Retrieval 9 (1973): 457-71.
• "Some Fundamental Concepts of Information Retrieval," Drexel Library Quarterly 14 (1978):.10-24.
• "On the Use of the Records of Research," Library Quarterly 49 (1979): 127-45. With Mona Farid.
• "Utility-theoretic Indexing," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 30 (1979): 169-70.
• "The End of Specificity," Library Resources and Technical Services 23 (1979): 116-22.
• "Limits to the Growth of Knowledge," Library Quarterly 50 (1980): 4-21.
• "The Catalog as an Access Mechanism: Background and Concepts," Library Resources and Technical Services 27 (1983): 4-17. Reprinted in Foundations of Cataloging: A Source Book. Littleton CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1985, pp 253-268.
• "Bibliographical R&D," in The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages, ed. by Fritz Machlup and Una Mansfield. New York: Wiley, 1983, pp. 389-97. ISBN|0-471-88717-X
• "Pragmatic Bibliography," in Back to the Books: Bibliographic Instruction and the Theory of Information Sources: Papers Presented at the 101st Annual Conference of the American Library Association, ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Section, ed. Ross Atkinson. [Chicago, Ill.]: Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 1983, pp. 5-14. ISBN 9780838965870.
• "The Face Value Rule in Reference Work," RQ 25 (1986): 468-75.
• "The Second Objective," in The Conceptual Foundations of Descriptive Cataloging, ed.by Elaine Svenonius. San Diego: Academic Press, 1989, pp 5-16. (Also published in Japanese).
• Interpreting the Second Objective of the Catalog," Library Quarterly 59 (1989): 339-53.
• "Form Divisions and Genre," Library Resources and Technical Services 34 (1990): 36-43. With Nick Robinson.
• "Copyright, Derivative Rights, and the First Amendment," Library Trends 39 (1990): 92-110.
• "Bibliographical Instruction and Cognitive Authority," Library Trends 39 (1991): 259-70.
• "Searching: Strategies and Evaluation," in: For Information Specialists, by Howard D. White, Marcia J. Bates, and Patrick Wilson. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1992, pp. 153-181.
• "The Value of Currency," Library Trends 41 (1993): 632-43.
• "Communication Efficiency in Research and Development," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44 (1993): 376-82.
• "Unused Relevant Information in Research and Development," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 46 (1995): 45-51.
• "Some Consequences of Information Overload and rapid Conceptual Change," in Information Science: From the Development of the Discipline to Social Interaction. Johan Olaisen, Erland Munch-Petersen, eds, 21-34. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1966.
• "The Future of Research In our Field," in Information Science: From the Development of the Discipline to Social Interaction. Johan Olaisen, Erland Munch-Petersen, eds, 319-24. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1966.
• "Interdisciplinary Research and Information Overload," Library Trends 45 (1996): 192-203.
• "Patrick Wilson: A Bibliographer among the Catalogers," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 25 (1998): 305-16.

Book Reviews

Book reviews through 1986.

• New Perspectives for Reference Services in Academic Libraries, by R. G. McInnis. Library Quarterly 50 (April 1980): 263-64.
• Information, Organization, and Power, by Dale E. Zand. Journal of Academic Librarianship 7 (November 1981): 295.
• The Information of the Image, by Allan D. Pratt. Library Research 4 (Summer 1982):203.
• Reading Research and Librarianship: A History and Analysis, by Stephen Laretzky. Journal of Academic Librarianship 8 (January 1983): 361.
• Knowledge and the Flow of Information, by Fred I.Dretske. Information Processing and Management 19 (1983): 61-62.
• The Subject in the Dictionary Catalog from Cutter to the Present, by Francis Miksa. Library Quarterly 54 (January 1984): 109-110.
• Knowledge Structure and Use: Implications for Synthesis and Interpretation, ed. by Spencer A. Ward and Linda J. Reed. Information Management and Processing 21 (1985): 370.
• Integrity in the College Curriculum: Curriculum: A Report to the Academic Community, by the Project on Redefining the Meaning and Purpose of Baccalaureate Degree. Library Quarterly 56 (April 1986): 173-75.