great librarians

[robertson at tesla.njit.edu]

>I would suggest Melvyl Dewey, S.R. Ranganathan ("The Five Laws of Library
>Science"), Gerald Jahoda (reference), John Beckeley (1st Librarian of
>Congress), and Derek J. de Solla Price (a science librarian and lib sci
>researcher), as well as Carnegie.  I'll forward any more suggestions from my
>files at home as well.
>
>_ J. R. Jackson                                                             _

    Some quick thoughts off the top of my head . . .

    I would suggest Gerald Salton (developed the SMART
search engine), Eugene Garfield (founded the Institute for
Scientific Information (Science Citation Index, Current
Contents, etc.)), and Thomas Jefferson (donated his personal
library as the basis for the Library of Congress . . . complete
with his own homemade classification system)).

          --Jim Robertson, Technical Reference Librarian
            New Jersey Institute of Technology
            robertson at tesla.njit.edu