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Douglas Foskett was an outstanding librarian, well known in Britain and overseas. He was one of the thinkers of the library profession, and although devoted to books as such he was also among the first to recognise the potential of automated systems.

Douglas John Foskett

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Douglas John (D.J.) Foskett (June 27, 1918 – May 7, 2004) was a British librarian and library and information scientists, and author of several special ‘faceted’ classification systems.

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The work of the information officer [should be] regarded as the natural dynamic extension of that of the librarian.

Douglas developed a strong interest in the relations between education and classification. He explored the writings of L.S Vygotsky, L. von Bertalanffy (for systems theory), and J.K. Feibleman and wrote a number of articles on classification and integrative levels.

Classification is thought of by many librarians as either a fearful complication of a very simply act, or an outmoded, almost prehistoric, method of doing a very complex mathematical task.

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