David Bawden is a British information science scholar. He is a professor in the department of Library and Information Science at City, University of London.[1] He is editor of the Journal of Documentation and has written or coauthored several books.
Education and career
Bawden received a bachelor's degree in organic chemistry from the University of Liverpool and a master's degree and PhD in information science from the University of Sheffield.[1][2] His doctoral thesis, completed in 1978, was titled Substructural analysis techniques for structure–property correlation within computerised chemical information systems.[3] He worked in industry as an information scientist for Pfizer before taking a position at City, University of London in 1990.[2][4] In 2002 he became editor of the Journal of Documentation.[5]
Selected publications
Books
Bawden, David (1990). User-Oriented Evaluation of Information Systems and Services. Aldershot: Gower. ISBN978-0-566-05209-5.
Aitchison, Jean; Bawden, David; Gilchrist, Alan (1997). Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual (3rd ed.). London: ASLIB IMI. ISBN978-0-85142-390-6.[6]
Bawden, David; Robinson, Lyn (2015). Introduction to Information Science. Facet Publishing. ISBN978-1-85604-810-1.[7]
Brophy, Jan; Bawden, David (2005). "Is Google enough? Comparison of an internet search engine with academic library resources". ASLIB Proceedings. 57 (6): 498–512. doi:10.1108/00012530510634235.
Bawden, David (2008). "Origins and concepts of digital literacy". In Lankshear, Colin; Knobel, Michele (eds.). Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices. Peter Lang. pp. 17–32. ISBN978-1-4331-0169-4.
Aversa, Elizabeth (May 2013). "Book review". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 64 (5): 1081–1083. doi:10.1002/asi.22885.