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unusual facts about Geoffrey C. Bowker


Geoffrey C. Bowker

With Helen Nissenbaum, he founded the NSF funded Values in Design network to bring together scholars examining these issues across broader sites of study and across disciplines.


Geoffrey Fox

Geoffrey C. Fox (born 1944), professor of informatics and computing at Indiana University

Lance Liebman

On May 16, 1999 he was named the fifth director of the American Law Institute succeeding Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr..

Library Journal

In its early issues, Charles Cutter, creator of the Cutter Expansive Classification system, developed his ideas; R. R. Bowker discussed cataloging principles; and managing editor Melvil Dewey made recommendations for early library circulation systems.

Publishers Weekly

Through much of the 20th century, Publishers Weekly was guided and developed by Frederic Gershom Melcher (1879–1963), who was editor and co-editor of Publishers' Weekly and chairman of the magazine's publisher, R.R. Bowker, over four decades.

R.R. Bowker

Bowker is the United States provider of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs), a code for identifying commercial books devised by Gordon Foster in 1967.

Richard Rogers Bowker

Richard Rogers Bowker (September 4, 1848 – November 12, 1933) was a journalist, editor of Publishers Weekly and Harper's Magazine, and founder of the R.R. Bowker Company.


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