Alastair Gibson Smith (1948[1] – 20 November 2019)[2] was a New Zealand academic in the field of library and information science. He retired in 2014 after spending most of his career at Victoria University of Wellington.[3]
Smith obtained a BSc in physics from the University of Auckland, a Diploma in Teaching from Christchurch Teachers' College, a diploma from the New Zealand Library School and an MA from Victoria University of Wellington.[4] He worked at the National Library of New Zealand, BRANZ and Victoria University of Wellington, where he rose to Senior Lecturer.[3] He was appointed the inaugural general secretary of the Bicycle Association of New Zealand in 1979.[2] He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of cancer, in 2001.[2]
Smith died in Wellington Hospital on 20 November 2019.[5][6]
Smith served on the editorial boards of Cybermetrics,[7] the Journal of Web Librarianship,[8] and Information Science Research[9][10] and authored the following significant publications (greater than 100 citations according to Google Scholar):
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