Following his recent retirement from the Information School at the University of Sheffield, this ebook of the Journal of Documentation acts as a festschrift to recognize Nigel Ford's contributions to research in library and information science. He is best known for his work on understanding the effect of selected individual differences, in particular, cognitive style on how people search for information, and on the intersection between how people learn and how they use information to learn. But his life's work has had considerable breadth as well as depth, as he started with a keen interest in artificial intelligence from which he developed his thinking about the impact of new technologies on information behaviour, and in cataloguing and classification, a knowledge that he loved to impart to students.