Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster

information scientist

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1933

Place of Birth: Durham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Aug-2013

Profession: librarian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Frederick Wilfrid ("Wilf") Lancaster (September 4, 1933 – August 25, 2013) was a British-American information scientist.
He immigrated to the USA in 1959 and worked as information specialist for the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland from 1965–68.
He was a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana from 1972-92 and professor emeritus from 1992-2013.
He continued as an honored scholar after retirement speaking on the evolution of librarianship in the 20th and 21st century.
Lancaster made notable achievements with early online retrieval systems, including evaluation studies of MEDLARS.
He published broadly in Library and Information Science over a period of four decades and continuously emerged as a visionary leader in the field, where research, writing, and teaching earned him the highest honors in the profession.
Lancaster excelled at many fronts: as scholar, educator, mentor, and writer.