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Mass communications analysts concentrate on “who sends what information, for what purposes, through what channels, to which people, with what effect”. The information profession is more interested in “who seeks what information, for what purposes, through what channels, from which people and sources, with what success”.

Brian Campbell Vickery

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Brian Campbell Vickery (September 11, 1918 – October 17, 2009) was a British information scientist and classification researcher, and Professor and director at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London from 1973 to 1983.

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Alternative Names: B. C. Vickery • Brian C. Vickery

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# The general structural features of the system considered as a network of units of information linked to each other and to documentary items. This may be called structural analysis.

[Information] science and technology are now so closely linked that analysis and experiment lead quickly on to invention, to the introduction of new channels (and documents).

The job of our profession is to facilitate the provision of knowledge (in all forms) to those who need it (for whatever purpose).

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