Book review: Niels Windfeld Lund, Introduction to Documentation Studies Available to Purchase

At one time, studies of the use and development of documents united the field of what is now known as Library and Information Science (“LIS,” or sometimes simply Information Science), but during the second half of the 20th century, this moniker of “documentation” was discarded for that of “information,” which seemed to point to non-physical forms of the content of documents. Ever since, the term “information” has dominated the domain and anyone interested in documents is thought to be existing in a fringe, retrogressive, region of thought and practice or in older specialties, such as librarianship or records management. But...