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Volume 4, Issue 2
1 February 1952
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Review Article| February 01 1952

WHY ‘DOCUMENTATION’? Available to Purchase

S.R. Ranganathan
S.R. Ranganathan
Professor of Library Science, University of Delhi
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-3748
Print ISSN: 0001-253X
© MCB UP Limited
1952
Aslib Proceedings (1952) 4 (2): 105–111.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049436

In a letter to the International Federation for Documentation of 19th October, 1951, Sir Hilary Jenkinson, Deputy Keeper, Public Record Office, and Chairman of Directorate, National Register of Archives, made certain friendly criticisms of the scope of its work, to which Dr. Ranganathan makes the following reply:

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