This letter provides some additional perspectives on the development of British information science. The authors have been personally involved in the discipline since the early 1970s and have had the privilege of knowing many of the pioneers in information science research and exploitation. The opportunity is taken add some personal perspectives to the paper and add further references to the bibliography.
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