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Documentation

Here are entered works on the processes by which documents are made available, including abstracting, archives, bibliographies, cataloging, classification, indexing, information centers, information storage and retrieval systems, libraries, copying processes, translating services, etc., treated collectively.

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• Information science

• Library science
• Information services

• Documentation -- Congresses
• Documentation -- Forgeries
• Documentation -- Periodicals
• Documentation -- United States
• Abstracting
• Archives
• Bibliography
• Copying processes
• Information retrieval
• Agriculture -- Documentation
• Antiques -- Documentation
• Antiquities -- Documentation
• Architecture -- Documentation
• Art -- Documentation
• Cultural property -- Documentation
• Historic preservation -- Documentation
• Language and languages -- Documentation
• Medicine -- Documentation
• Science -- Documentation
• Technology -- Documentation

• Documentarity: Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2019), by Ronald E. Day (HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays From the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Archive in Motion: New Conceptions of the Archive in Contemporary Thought and New Media Practices (Oslo: Novus Press, c2010), ed. by Eivind Røssaak (multiple formats in Norway)

• Soviet Active Measures: Focus on Forgeries (1983), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of Library and Information Studies (open access from 2002-) (partial serial archives)
• American Documentation (partial serial archives)
• Current Research and Development in Scientific Documentation (full serial archives)

• Archival Issues (full serial archives)
• Archivaria (partial serial archives)
• The Midwestern Archivist (full serial archives)
• Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Archivalische Zeitschrift (partial serial archives)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• Studies in Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Magyar Könyvszemle (in Hungarian) (full serial archives)
• The National Library of Wales Journal (partial serial archives)
• The Library (partial serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Bibliography (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Library Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• The New Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• The Private Library (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Bookman (London, 1891-1934) (partial serial archives)
• The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)
• American Notes and Queries (New Haven, 1962-1986) (partial serial archives)
• The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)
• The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America (full serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas (full serial archives)
• Book Review Digest (partial serial archives)
• The Library Association Record (partial serial archives)
• Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen (in German) (partial serial archives)
• The Book Buyer (partial serial archives)
• Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular (full serial archives)
• The Dolphin (American Catholic review, 1901-1905) (full serial archives)

• Précis Writing for Beginners (London: Blackie and Son, ca.1917), by Guy Noel Pocock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Progressive Course of Précis Writing (1913), by Frederick Eden Robeson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indexing and Précis Writing (London: Macmillan, 1908), by G. B. Beak (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Usefulness of Analytic Abstracts (1922), by Gordon S. Fulcher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays From the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects (Londen: Methuen and Co., 1902), by Alfred W. Pollard (page images at CMU)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)

• How to Use Duplicating Machines (New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1945), by E. W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual On Methods of Reproducing Research Materials: A Survey Made for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1936), by Robert C. Binkley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Introduction to Information Retrieval (prepublication version; 2008), by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze (HTML and PDF with commentary at Stanford)
• Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files (2000), by Gail M. Hodge (PDF at clir.org)
• Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2010), by Patricia Harpring (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

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