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Robert Collison (1914–1989) was an English librarian and scholar.

Full name: Robert Lewis Wright Collison Also known as: Robert L. Collison

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"Professor of Library Science and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1968–73"^[1]

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Bakewell, K. Robert Lewis Wright Collison 1914-1989.Obituary (Lang.: eng). - In: Indexer.Vol.16.No.4.1989.p.277-278.

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Fact Factories: Wikipedia and the power to represent by Heather Ford Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of DPhil in Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences in the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Unpublished thesis. August 2015.

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b34fdd6c-ec15-4bcd-acba-66a777739b4d/download_file?file_format=application%2Fpdf&safe_filename=thesishford_thesis.pdf&type_of_work=Thesis

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Bumpus [née Collison], Judith Harriet (1939–2010) by Piers Plowright

   https://doi-org.sl.nsw.gov.au/10.1093/ref:odnb/102556
   Published online: 09 January 2014

Bumpus [née Collison], Judith Harriet (1939–2010), radio producer and art historian, was born on 3 November 1939 at Savernake Hospital, Savernake, Wiltshire, the daughter of Robert Lewis Wright Collison (1914–1989), librarian and scholar, and his wife, Mary Patricia Daws, née Marshall (1911–2000), teacher and historian. She had an older brother, David (1936–1991).

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Robert Collison, Encyclopedias: Their History Throughout the Ages (1964) in bibiography at end of "Encyclopedias" (article) in: The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science J. L. Heilbron OUP, 2003

https://www-oxfordreference-com.sl.nsw.gov.au/display/10.1093/acref/9780195112290.001.0001/acref-9780195112290-e-0227

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59629516

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Bibliography

Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout the Ages, London: Hafner, 1964; 2nd ed., New York, 1966, titled Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout the Ages: A Bibliographical Guide with Extensive Historical Notes to the General Encyclopaedias Issued Throughout the World from 350 B.C. to the Present Day

References

^ Robert L. Collison, britannica.com. Retrieved 20 December 2023.

[1] Robert L. Collison, britannica.com. Retrieved 20 December 2023.

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