Les Techniques documentaires, Jacques Chaumier, Que sais-je?

While the concept of a library, i.e., information preservation, has been known since antiquity, the concept of documentation is much more recent. It can be traced back to the moment when the idea of exploiting preserved information emerged, i.e., at the end of the 19th century. This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of documentation techniques, from their origins to the means and languages they employ, in order to better understand the information access they make possible.