[Sigcr-l] Jack Mills 1919-2010

[Aida Slavic]

ISKO UK is sorry to announce the death of Jack Mills, on 9 July 2010, at 
his home in London, at the age of 91.

Jack had a long and distinguished career as a professional librarian, 
academic, teacher and researcher, and, for the last 40 years, as Editor 
of the Bliss Bibliographic Classification, Second Edition (BC2).

In recent years his work had been marked by the award of an Honorary 
Fellowship of CILIP, and the Tony Keny Strix award for services to 
information retrieval. He was also honoured by the (then) American 
Society for Information Science as one of a handful of British 
information professionals nominated as 'Pioneers of Information Science' <.

His death was unexpected and peaceful, sitting in his garden at home, 
and, as usual, he had been working on BC2 during the day. A fuller 
tribute will appear on the ISKO UK website 
<http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/isp/mills2.htm> and in the Knowledge 
Organization journal.

---
Aida Slavic, Hon. Secretary ISKO UK
http://www.iskouk.org/
info at iskouk.org





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