INTRODUCTORY NOTE
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026056 |
| Date | 01 January 1945 |
| Published date | 01 January 1945 |
| Pages | 1-1 |
| Author | B. Th. |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
INTRODUCTORY
NOTE
T
HE Oxford
English
dictionary
defines a document as
'something written...which furnishes evidence or
information upon any subject', and documentation as the
'preparation or use of documentary evidence and authori-
ties'.
In other words, anything in which knowledge is
recorded is a document, and documentation is any process
which serves to make a document available to the seeker
after knowledge. This process will be the chief concern
of the Journal of
documentation.
Librarianship and the
organization of information services, bibliography and
cataloguing, abstracting and indexing, classification and
filing, photographic and mechanical methods of repro-
duction: all these things and many others are the channels
of documentation which guide knowledge to the inquirer.
All,
as opportunity serves, will receive attention in these
pages.
Nor will this attention be limited by national
boundaries or by the artificial segregation of the sciences
and humanities. Of all these things the present first number
offers some testimony. Yet the times are not propitious for
universal undertakings: only a quiet beginning is now
attempted, to be amplified later if approved. Th. B.
в
The
Journal
of
DOCUMENTATION
Edited
by
THEODORE
BESTERMAN
Volume
I JUNE 1945 Number 1
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