Professor Forbes Gibb

fl. 2001
Information scientist and book collector

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Forbes Gibb is currently Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. His academic research interests lie in the fields of information strategy, knowledge management, e-books and language-based information retrieval systems. His non-academic interests lean heavily to the world of detective fiction and, in particular, the character of Sherlock Holmes. He was first captivated by the works of Conan Doyle in the early 1960s and has built a library of over 2,500 items, several hundred of which he is pleased to have donated to form the nucleus of a research collection for other Doyle enthusiasts.

The Forbes Gibb Collection complements Conan Doyle material already in the Library, including his first publications while still a student, his MD thesis, and the manuscript of his lecture on Thomas Carlyle presented to the University in 1981 by his daughter Dame Jean Conan Doyle.