Pauline Atherton Cochrane: Weaving value from the past

This article explores the contributions of Pauline Atherton Cochrane (1929-). Actively engaged in research and teaching in the field of library and information science (LIS) for more than fifty years, Cochrane remains one of the most highly cited authors in LIS. She offered particularly deep analysis of the fundamental problems of evaluation and testing of early document retrieval systems and subject analysis tools.