Awards and recognitions

Erich Marlowe

 Michael Buckland was a very determined and successful man. He joined the library staff at the University of Lancaster Library where he pursued his interest. From 1967 to 1972, Buckland took part in a day to day research unit studies at University of Lancaster, where he worked with issues dealing with book usage, and library management. Buckland should be recognized for some of his accomplishments. He earned himself a Ph.D from Sheffield University. From 1976 to 1984, he became a Dean of the School of Library and Information Studies at Berkeley. Buckland should also be recognized for how important some of his jobs were. He was the Assistant Vice President for the Library Plans and Policies for the nine campuses of the University of California. He was President of the American Society for Information Science in 1998, and is a Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative is a networked digital atlas set up by a group of professors. Some of the books he wrote were Library Services in Theory and Context, Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine, and Redesigning Library Services. He has been Principal Investigator on a number of projects with Fredric Gey and Ray Larson to make bibliographical searching both easier and more effective through search support.

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/bio.html http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2007/bios/au_395013486.html 

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may04/buckland/05buckland.html 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Buckland