Documentation has always been crucial in human society. Today almost all communication are being stored digitally. In order to deal systematically and coherently with old and new media in the world today, you have to deal with the physical as well as the social and cultural context. Alongside this, there is now increasing interest in documentation theory and science, and documentation studies has become a distinctly lively field of research as well as a basis for professional practice in libraries, archives and museums.

This groundbreaking new book introduces and demonstrates the value and relevance of a new approach to the documentation, communication and information field, complementary to the traditional library, information and archival sciences. It offers an introduction to documentation studies; a new discipline within the overall information studies umbrella - and gives a broad and general theory for documentation.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: DOCUMENTATION THEORY

1 Setting the Stage

2 A Complementary Theory of Documentation

3 A Model for a Complementary Documentation Analysis

Part 2: DOCUMENTATION IN PRACTICE

4 Music: A Requiem for Countess von Walsegg, aka Mozart's Requiem

5 Literature: "Indian Camp" - A Short Story by Ernest Hemingway

6 Art: The Girls on the Bridge - One Title - Many works

7 Science: "The Danish Revolution 1500-1800" - A Doctoral dissertation

8 Politics: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963

9 Identity Documentation: Name and number

Part 3: DOCUMENTATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

10: Documentation in a comparative perspective

11: A complementary discipline of documentation, information, and communication

Epilogue

Reference works, dictionaries

Library and information science in general

Library and information management

Conservation and storage

Libraries and information centres

Linguistics in general, dictionaries

Further readings in linguistics

Reference works, dictionaries (charity campaign)

Library and information science in general (charity campaign)

Library and information management (charity campaign)

Conservation and storage (charity campaign)

Libraries and information centres (charity campaign)

Linguistics in general, dictionaries (charity campaign)

Further readings in linguistics (charity campaign)

Introduction to Documentation Studies

This groundbreaking new book introduces and demonstrates the value and relevance of a new approach to the documentation, communication and information field, complementary to the traditional library, information and archival sciences. It offers an introduction to documentation studies.