Department of Information Science

David Bawden

Professor of Information Science

Photo of Prof David Bawden Prof David Bawden
Professor of Information Science
Room: A309A
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

dbawden@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 8390
fax: +44 20 7040 8584

Please see my blog, the Occasional Informationist, for my latest thoughts and for more about me

I have been with the Department of Information Science at City University London since 1990. Originally an organic chemist, I have MSc and PhD degrees in Information Science from Sheffield University. After completing my PhD, on chemical structure handling for structure property correlation, I worked in research information services in the pharmaceutical industry particularly on chemical information retrieval, analysis of molecular similarity and diversity, structure-activity relationships, and the value of information systems for creativity and innovation.

I am co-director of City's Centre for Information Science, which acts as a focus for teaching, research and scholarship in core areas of information science. I am involved with the management of the Postgraduate MSc Information Studies Scheme. I currently lead modules in the foundations of the library/information sciences, knowledge organisation, information management and policy, ad information in subject domains.

I am editor of Journal of Documentation, the leading European journal of library/information science, and am on the editorial boards of Portal: Libraries and the Academy, and ATLA: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals.

My main professional interests (teaching, research, consultancy, etc.) fall into three main areas: foundations of LIS, including philosphical and conceptual issues, library / information history, and curriculum development for LIS teaching and training; knowledged organisation, especially taxonomies and thesauri; and domain analysis, including information resources and information behaviour in specific subject areas.

Internationally, I am a member of the Board of EUCLID, the European Association for Library and Information Education and Research, and led the Information Seeking and Retrieval group of EUCLID's EU-funded project to develop a Europe-wide library/information curriculum. I have been a consultant/evaluator for the Open Society Institute Information program, taught for five years in a summer school for library/information specialists at the Central European University, and work with the library science departments at the universities of Ljubljana, Vilnius and Zagreb, and Charles University Prague, in collaborative projects and exchanges.

Please follow this link for a selection of some of my publications, including some self-archived papers.

This is a link to my blog The Occasional Informationist. I also tweet intermittently @david_bawden [please note the underscore].

This is a listing of some of my book collection on LibraryThing.