Douglas John Foskett

1918–2004 · director of the central library at the University of London

Topics: learning

• Information retrieval consists of four main stages: Identifying the exact subject of the search; Locating this subject in a guide which refers the searcher to one or more documents; Locating the documents; Locating the required information in the documents.

  — Douglas John Foskett

• The retrieval process begins when a lack of information shows itself in a human mind and the decision is taken to find out if this information has been discovered and published

  — Douglas John Foskett

• The purpose of a classification scheme is to arrange information, in documents on shelves or on cards in indexes, in a sequence that will be helpful to the user.

  — Douglas John Foskett