Philosopher of information

Childhood and early musical achievements, Santa Cruz, CA; UC Berkeley, 1945-1949, student jobs in the main library, influence of Richard Teggart; School of Librarianship, 1952-1953, positions as map librarian, South Asia bibliographer for the Modern India Project; Ph.D. in philosophy at Berkeley, 1960; teaching philosophy at UCLA, 1960-1965; Berkeley's School of Librarianship (later School of Library and Information Studies), since 1965: deanship of Raynard C. Swank, the Institute of Library Research, Wilson's deanship, 1970-1975; changing the school and its curricula in an atmosphere of unrest; writing on bibiographical organization and control, library and information policy, and cognitive authority; serving on Academic Senate committees, chairing the Committee on Courses of Instruction; thoughts on librarianship as intellectual platform, librarianship as a "science," the future of librarianship; honored at Scandinavian conference, 1993.