Brian Campbell Vickery (New South Wales, Australia, 11 September 1918 – 17 October 2009) was a British information scientist and classification researcher, and Professor and director at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London from 1973 to 1983.
He started his career as plant chemist in the explosives factory of the Royal Ordnance in Bridgwater, Somerset in 1941.
[6] After the war he was assistant editor of the Industrial Chemist review in London, England, for one year.
In 1946 he started his career as librarian at the Akers Research Laboratories of the Imperial Chemical Industries in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England, where he worked until 1960.
After 1983, as professor emeritus of the University of London, he remained active as part-time consultant and kept writing.