Brian Vickery and the foundations of information science

<p>The paper examines B.C. Vickery&rsquo;s contributions to the continuing debate on the nature<br> of the information sciences as academic disciplines and domains of professional practice,<br> focusing on ten main topics: what is information science; information science as a field of<br> study; the core of information science; information science and other disciplines; cognate<br> information disciplines; information science: theory and practice; education for informa-<br> tion science; the importance of the user; the place of knowledge organisation; and informa-<br> tion science, looking backward and forward.</p>