Douglas John Foskett OBE (27 June 1918 – 7 May 2004) was a British librarian and library and information scientist, and author of several special faceted classification systems.
He received his BA from Queen Mary College in 1939 and in 1954 his MA at Birkbeck, University of London.
[2] He started his career in the late 1930s as a librarian in the Ilford Public Libraries in Essex.
From 1948 to 1957 he was Head of Information in the Research Division of the Metal Box Company Limited.
For 5 years he was a member of UNESCO's International Advisory Committee on Libraries, Documentation and Archives.