Introduction to Documentation Studies

Introduction to Documentation Studies2025 ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies. It outlines the historical background of, and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to documentation issues and processes: not only in the context of academic study, but also in the practice of documentation in different parts of society. What do a composer, a writer, a painter, a historian, a political

It covers educational activism

expectations have increased that we may yet comprehend

years and sometimes their entire childhood

of the professional environments in which they operate

Paul Chatterton engages

Including analyses of Bond as a lifestyle icon

Léo Malet's Nestor Burma and many more

Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow ‘rat-a-tap

Featuring interviews with culture makers

where men – and a very few women – sent spoken messages home to be shown to families and sweethearts in local cinemas

Class-tested by the author throughout its development: the book has down-to-earth explanations

Drawing on the very latest in the medical humanities