The late Emeritus Professor Ken Bakewell

摘要

Professor Ken (Kenneth Graham Bartlett or "KGB") Bakewell died on 31 March 2011 after a period of ill health. He began his librarianship career as an assistant in Dudley Public Library. In 1952 he moved to Derbyshire County Library as Senior Assistant before returning to Dudley as a Branch Librarian and then on to Bexley Public Library as Chief Cataloguer. From that time he became a firm cataloguing, classification and indexing aficionado. In the late 1950s he changed direction from public to special libraries, becoming, successively, Chief Cataloguer at English Electric, Librarian of the British Plaster Board and Librarian of the British Institute of Management. His interest in indexing was stimulated by the fact that he had to index Management Abstracts as part of his duties at BBVI. He had an abhorrence of any non-fiction book that did not have an index or, indeed, any book with a poor index. Ken moved to Liverpool in 1964 to work in Ladsirlac (Liverpool and District Scientific, Industrial and Research Library Advisory Council), where he became Technical Documentation Officer.