What does the term “documentation” mean

Abstract

The publication is the main fragment of the report of the Swiss librarian and bibliographer Marcel Gaudet (fr. Marcel Gaudet; 1877, Switzerland – 1949, ibid.) at the Congress of the International Federation for Documentation (FID) 1939, translated by Lubov B. Khavkina, a classic of Russian and Soviet Librarianship. The Piece has a double interest: as rolling pins of your time when the Phenomenon of Documentation, as well as appeared in practice, documentation Centres, only comprehended and discussed, the activity Centers have been criticized, the relationship with the library functions was unclear; and as evidence of close attention to this issue Lubov B. Khavkina, too, only still developing its attitude to the innovation that appeared in the Western World.