F. Wilfrid Lancaster

F. Wilfrid Lancaster is professor emeritus in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, where he has taught courses relating to information transfer, bibliometrics, bibliographic organization, and the evaluation of library and information services. He continues to serve as editor of Library Trends. He was appointed University Scholar for the period 1989-92. Lancaster is the author of eleven-six of which have received national awards-and has received three Fulbright fellowships for research and teaching abroad. From the American society for Information Science he has received both the Award of Merit and the Outstanding Information Science Teacher award. Lancaster has been involved in a wide range of consulting activities, including service for Unesco and other agencies of the United Nations. He is coauthor of the 1997 book Technology and Management in Library and Information Services and is also working on a book dealing with potential applications of artificial intelligence and expert system technologies within libraries.