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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 06:54:56 -0400 From: Suzanne Stauffer <[log in to unmask]> To: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum <[log in to unmask]> Subject: RE: Users, Technology and Knowledge (fwd) I'll jump in on this one : > Why is "documentation" in your "technology section" ? Given my background with information technolgy, I associate documentation with instructions on how to use information technology. If you have a better place for it, I'd be happy to hear about your suggestions. > Bibliography was always associated with "documentation" roots btw > much more than "technology" jumped that bandwagon I don't understand your comment here. I associate "bibliography" with a disciple or culture, and "documentation" with an information technology. Please explain your ideas. Yes, we do refer to the manuals and instructions as "documentation," but the term existed long before information technology was even a gleam in its father's eye. If I, as a professor, ask a student to provide "documentation," I am not asking for instructions on how to use information technology. I am asking for references to valid and reliable scholarly evidence of the claims being made. I am asking for the student to (virtually) produce the documents on which the claim is based. It is, in fact, a synonym for "bibliography," which is the process of documenting books and collections of books. McKenzie defines bibliography as "the discipline that studies texts as recorded forms, and the processes of their transmission, including their production and reception." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography Those studies document the forms and the processes. Then there's Paul Otlet and his "Documentation science," which is the direct predecessor of "information science." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentation_science Suzanne M. Stauffer, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science Louisiana State University 277 Coates Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (225)578-1461 Fax: (225)578-4581 [log in to unmask] Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? --T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from The Rock" ________________________________________