information scientistn.
/ˌɪnfəˌmeɪʃn ˈsʌɪəntɪst/, U.S. /ˌɪnfərˌmeɪʃ(ə)n ˈsaɪən(t)əst/ A person trained in providing an information service, esp. in respect of scientific or technical information; a specialist or expert in information science.
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information officer1889
information scientist1953
1953 J. E. L. Farradane in Research 6 328/1 The information scientist may now be defined as a research scientist who specializes in collecting, collating, organizing and disseminating published or unpublished, recorded or unrecorded (verbally communicated) facts of a scientific and technical nature.
1958 Nature 4 Jan. 20/1 A meeting will be held on January 23..to discuss terms of inauguration of an Institute of Information Scientists.
1990 Sci. Amer. Apr. 20/2 The visit convinced him that East German information scientists should contribute to the international effort to map and sequence the human genome.
2007 Harper's Mag. May 54/1 The reference librarians, reconciled to their new roles as customer-service technicians in the guise of advanced-degreed ‘information scientists’,..field questions about how to use these Internet resources.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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