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Ranganathan's Documentation in Opposition to European Documentation: a Position based on Library Science

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Title Ranganathan's Documentation in Opposition to European Documentation: a Position based on Library Science
 
Creator de Sales, Rodrigo
Soares Amorim, Igor
 
Subject Documentation
Library Science
Discursive tensions
Ranganathan
 
Description 69-77
The European discourse of Documentation was shaped without significant opposition, with the exception of Ranganathan's critique. He opposed the idea that there was a need for a new field, instead placing Documentation within the scope of Library Science. With the aim of contributing to the epistemological debate in Library and Information Science, this article presents the contrast between Ranganathan's discourse and that of European Documentation, highlighting the defence that Ranganathan made of the theoretical space of Library Science. We conduct a contrastive reading on the works Traité de Documentation by Otlet, Documentation by Bradford, and Qu'est-ce que la documentation? by Briet, to delineate the European discourse, and Documentation: Genesis and Development by Ranganathan. Our analysis identifies the common ground between the discourses based on their subjects, objects, and processes, and finds that there are more similarities than differences between the discourses, this supports Ranganathan's criticism that Documentation is not a separate discipline but rather a practice within Library Science. We conclude that the Indian librarian made a strong defence of the epistemological space of Library Science.
 
Date 2024-03-11T04:45:55Z
2024-03-11T04:45:55Z
2024-03
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63556
https://doi.org/10.56042/alis.v71i1.8972
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.71(1) [March 2024]