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 (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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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.
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.
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.
Richard Rogers Bowker (1848–1933), journalist and founder of the R.R. Bowker Company