"Scientists are more profitably occupied at the bench that in the library"
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Douglas John Foskett
Douglas John (D.J.) Foskett (June 27, 1918 ā May 7, 2004) was a British librarian and library and information scientists, and author of several special āfacetedā classification systems.
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