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"

"The work of the information officer [should be] regarded as the natural dynamic extension of that of the librarian."

"After a great deal of (quite valuable) discussion, the British accepted that ‘facet analysis’ must be the basis of a classification scheme able to meet the modern requirements."

"Since books are not their primary source materials, as they are for research in the humanities, most scientists prefer to spend their time on experiments and not on reading."

"consists in an analysis of a subject in its entirety into a certain number of facets or categories of things; within each category, the subject headings enumerated all possess the same relationship vis-&-vis the subject in its entirety."

"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."