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19:52, 4 August 2026 User account HlavaM talk contribs was created by JennyB talk contribs and password was sent by email (requested)
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16:15, 18 June 2026 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Paul Otlet (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ '''Paul Otlet''' (1868 – 1944) was a Belgian bibliographer. File:Paul Otlet à son bureau (cropped).jpg Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet was born on August 23, 1868 in Brussels, Belgium. After secondary education in PAris and Brussels, he studied at the Catholic University of Leuven and the Free University of Brussels, he earned a law degree in 1890. Becoming dissatisfied he developed his interest in bibliography. His essay "Un peu de bibliographie" [Somethi...")
15:48, 18 June 2026 JennyB talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:OHData.csv
15:45, 18 June 2026 JennyB talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:OHData.csv
15:40, 18 June 2026 JennyB talk contribs created page Vladimir Slamecka (Added stub) Tag: Visual edit
12:29, 18 May 2026 JennyB talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:OHData.csv (Add Belkin 2)
17:19, 2 March 2026 JennyB talk contribs deleted page List of Oral Histories (content was: "Following is a list of known oral histories, compiled by Tatjana Aparac. Abels, Eileen (make link to wiki page obvious - button?) (Year) (affiliation) (short blurb) * Oral History 1 (by whom; what kind of file) --> link to oral history file * Oral History 2 (by whom) Adams, Scott (1909-1982) Aitchison, Jean (1925-2020) Aitchison, T...", and the only contributor was "JennyB" (talk))
13:25, 23 February 2026 JennyB talk contribs created page Advisory Committee (Added page) Tag: Visual edit
08:54, 20 December 2025 User account Baiget talk contribs was created by JennyB talk contribs and password was sent by email (Creating Entries)
17:36, 17 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Domenec Turuguet i Mayol (Created redirect) Tag: Visual edit
18:02, 16 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Donald Lindberg (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ '''Donald A. B. Lindberg''' (1933-2019) was Director of the US National Library of Medicine. alt=Donald A. B. Lindberg |thumb|Donald A. B. Lindberg Donald Lindberg was known for his work in medical computing. Under his direction, there were many important developments at the National Library of Medicine, including PubMed, An openly-accessible free database which includes primarily the MEDLINE database of references an...")
17:58, 16 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Claude E. Shannon (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ '''Claude E. Shannon''' (1916-2001) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer. alt=Claude E. Shannon|thumb|Claude E. Shannon Claude Shannon's contributed to and influenced circuitry, computing, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and much more. His communication theory built on two insights: (i) That information reflects choices made; and thus reduces uncertainty and (ii) that infor...")
17:53, 16 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Charles Percy Bourne (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ '''Charles Percy Bourne''' (1931-) had professional interests in library analysis, automation and evaluation, natural systems and issues. thumb|Charles Percy Bourne From 1957 to 1966, Bourne was a research engineer at the Computer Systems Lab at the Stanford Research Institute. He was Vice-President, Information General Corporation, 1966-68, then President, Bourne & Associates 1968-71. In 1971 he became a professor at t...")
17:45, 16 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Calvin Northrup Mooers (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ '''Calvin Northrup Mooers''' (1919-1994) was an American information retrieval specialist. alt=Calvin Northrup Mooers|thumb|365x365px|<nowiki>Calvin Northrup Mooers | Credit </nowiki>[https://www.ithistory.org/honor-roll/mr-calvin-northrup-mooers IT History Society] Mooers coined the terms "information retrieval" in 1950 and "descriptors." *He promulgated "Mooers' Law": "An information system will tend ''not'' to be used...")
17:15, 16 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Lodewyk Bendikson (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ '''Lodewyk Bendikson''' (1875-1953) was a US expert on photographic techniques in documentation. alt=Lodewyk Bendikson uses a camera for microphotography|thumb|Lodewyk Bendikson '''Lodewyk Bendikson''' was born in 1875 in Amsterdam. He received his early training at The Hague. Bendikson was influenced by John Shaw Billings, a former Surgeon General of the USA, who was responsible for the consolidation of the New York Publ...")
17:02, 16 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Ann T. Curran (Created page with "TEMPLATE: __NOINDEX__ '''Ann T. Curran''' (1928-1977) was an American librarian. thumb|CAPTION Note: The filename for an image can be determined by clicking “Edit Source” on the main page for the individual. Ann T. Curran studied at Emmanuel College 1945-1949 and earned AB degree in Chemistry. She studied at Simmons College 1955-1961 and completed an MS in Library Science. From 1955 to 1957 sh was librarian at the Raytheon Company Research Divis...")
16:18, 16 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page File:Domènec Turuguet i Mayol.png
16:18, 16 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs uploaded File:Domènec Turuguet i Mayol.png
16:14, 16 December 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Domènec Turuguet i Mayol (added new) Tag: Visual edit
08:30, 15 October 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Debora Shaw (Created page with "Stub - oral history")
13:02, 13 October 2025 JennyB talk contribs changed group membership for Hthach: granted bot, bureaucrat and suppressor; kept interface administrator and administrator unchanged
12:53, 24 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Patrick Wilson (Created page with "TEMPLATE: __NOINDEX__ '''Patrick_Wilson''' (1927–2003) was an American theorist of bibliographic control. alt=Photo of Patrick G. Wilson|thumb|Patrick G. Wilson Patrick Garland Wilson was born on December 29, 1927 and grew up in Santa Cruz, California. He studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley: AB with highest honors, in 1949 and PhD,with a dissertation on On interpretation and understanding in 1960. He also complet...")
12:48, 24 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page File:Patrick G Wilson.jpg
12:48, 24 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs uploaded File:Patrick G Wilson.jpg
12:42, 24 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Robert Pagès (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ Robert Pagès (1919-2007) was a French documentalist and social psychologist. Robert Pagès was born on Aug 25, 1919, in Belmontet (Lot), France. He became an anarchist activist and a student of Georges Canguilhem. Pagès completed his Licence de philosophie in Toulouse in 1940 and later a Diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie. After the Second World War he studied psychology at the Sorbonne. In 1946 Pagès entered the program for professional ed...")
13:17, 12 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Eileen Abels (Created page with "STUB - Create") Tag: Visual edit
16:33, 8 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page List of Oral Histories (changed to list of oral histories instead of just oral histories.) Tag: Visual edit
16:32, 8 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs deleted page Oral histories (content was: "Following is a list of known oral histories, compiled by Tatjana Aparac. Meadows, Arthur Jack (A.J.), 1934 - 2016. MP3 available to download. Ben-Ami Lipetz (1927-2011) Bernard M. Fry (1915-1994) Bonnie C. Carroll (1947-) Carlos A. Cuadra (1925-) Caroline Susan Candy Schwartz (-) Charles Oppenheim (1946-) Charles Hargis...", and the only contributor was "JennyB" (talk))
13:26, 8 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Jaques Tocatlian (Created page with "NOTE: This is a stub. Jacques Tocatlian (1929 - 2019) was an Egyptian-born chemist and pioneering information scientist whose career spanned industry, academia, and international organizations. After early work as a research and literature chemist, he became a leader at UNESCO, where he advanced global efforts in scientific information sharing and standardization through programs like UNISIST. His career reflected a lifelong commitment to bridging cultures and disciplin...") Tag: Visual edit
13:21, 8 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Douglas J. Foskett (Created page with "NOTE: This is a stub. Douglas John Foskett (1918 - 2004) was a British librarian and information scientist recognized for his contributions to classification theory and library organization. After service in World War II, he led information services in industry and later shaped academic librarianship at the Institute of Education and the University of London, where he developed the London Education Classification. A founder of the Classification Research Group, he advan...") Tag: Visual edit
13:14, 8 September 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Arthur Jack Meadows (Added) Tag: Visual edit
13:08, 18 August 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template:Featured/Henriette Avram (Created page with "Life Henriette Davidson Avram was born on October 7, 1919 in Manhattan, New York city. She majored in pre-medicine at Hunter College for two years during the 1930s. In 1952 she joined the National Security Agency as a systems analyst and an early computer programmer. She also took advanced mathematics classes at George Washington University. She later worked as a systems analyst and programmer at the American Research Bureau and then at Datatrol. At Datatrol, her attempt...")
20:32, 15 August 2025 JennyB talk contribs changed group membership for Hthach: granted interface administrator; kept administrator unchanged
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10:24, 11 August 2025 User account Hthach talk contribs was created by JennyB talk contribs and password was sent by email
14:49, 20 June 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Template (Created page with "The Biographical Directory of Documentation and Information Science follows the Wikipedia Manual of Style with emphases as noted. Look at existing articles for examples. Components in the following order. Plain text can be sent to the editors who can create an article and add formatting mark-up. Note that the Biographical Directory is primarily an educational device. 1. Short description, including: Name, dates, nationality, salient characteristic. 40 or so characters (...")
09:02, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Cyril W. Cleverdon (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Cyril Cleverdon... == Life == Cranfield Experiments == Publications == == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 1970 == Further Reading ==")
09:00, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Jerrold Orne (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Jerrold Orne... == Life == Chaired Z39 Committee, precursor to National Information Standards Organization, Director University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries and professor of Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. == Publications == == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 1971 == Further Reading ==")
08:59, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Phyllis Richmond (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Phyllis Richmond... == Life == == Publications == ‘‘Hierarchical Definition;’’ == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 2023 == Further Reading == "The Art and Science of Classification: Phyllis Allen Richmond, 1921–1997."")
08:56, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Martha E. Williams (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Martha E. Williams... == Life == == Publications == “Education and Training for Online Use of Data Bases.” == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 1984 == Further Reading ==")
08:54, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Robert L. Chartrand (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Robert Chartrand... == Life == == Publications == "Computer Technology and the Congress." == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 1985 == Further Reading ==")
08:52, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Jean Tague-Sutcliffe (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Jean Tague-Sutcliffe... == Life == Western Ontario == Publications == Measuring Information: An Information Services Perspective. == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 1996 == Further Reading ==")
08:51, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Dagobert Soergel (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Dagobert Soergel... == Life == == Publications == Best Information Science Book of the Year (1987) - Organizing Information: Principles of Data Base and Retrieval Systems. == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 1997 == Further Reading ==")
08:49, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Henry Small (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Henry Small... == Life == Institute for Scientific Information == Publications == Bibliometrics of Basic Research."Macrolevel changes in the structure of co-citation clusters." == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 2023 == Further Reading ==")
08:48, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page José-Marie Griffiths (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' José-Marie Griffiths... == Life == V.P., board directors, King Research, Inc. == Publications == == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 1999 == Further Reading ==")
08:46, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Karen Spärck Jones (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Karen Spärk Jones... == Life == == Publications == "A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval." == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 2002 == Further Reading ==")
08:45, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Nicholas J. Belkin (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Nicholas Belkin... == Life == == Publications == Interaction in Information Systems: A Review of Research from Document Retrieval to Knowledge-Based Systems. == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 2003 == Further Reading ==")
08:44, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Howard D. White (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Howard D. White... == Life == == Publications == “Combining Bibliometrics Information Retrieval and Relevance Theory." == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 2004 == Further Reading ==")
08:43, 28 May 2025 JennyB talk contribs created page Marcia Bates (Created page with "''Note: this page is a stub.'' Marcia Bates... == Life == == Publications == Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences == Awards == ASIST Award of Merit, 2005 == Further Reading ==")