Ia McIlwaine

McIlwaine was a pupil at Bath High School before reading Classics at Bedford College, London. In 1958 she gained a Graduate Diploma in Librarianship from University College London. She subsequently worked as an Assistant Librarian with Westminster City Libraries before returning to UCL as a Lecturer in the School of Library and Archive Studies.[1]

She was promoted to Senior Lecturer at UCL in 1985 and then to Reader in Classification and Indexing in 1995 before, in 1997, attaining a Chair of Library & Information Studies.[1]

In 1988 McIlwaine published her PhD these as a two-volume book titled Herculaneum: A Guide to Printed Sources, which ran to over 1,000 pages of content.[2][1]

In 1998 she was a recipient of the Library Association Centenary Medal.[1]

She was Editor-in-Chief of the Universal Decimal Classification, on which she published four titles in 1998, and Chair of the IFLA Committee of Classification and Indexing and FID/Classification and Knowledge Organization and Research Committee. She was also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.[2]

• 1988. McIlwaine, I. C. Herculaneum: A Guide to Printed Sources. Bibliópolis.
• 1997. McIlwaine, I. C. "The Universal Decimal Classification: Some factors concerning its origins, development, and influence", Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48, 331–339.
• 2007. McIlwaine, I. C. Universal Decimal Classification: a guide to its use. Revised ed. The Hague: UDC Consortium.
• 2009. McIlwaine, I. C. "Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)", in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (3rd Edition), pp5432–5439.