Of making many books there is no end, as the writer of Ecclesiates reminds us, but occasionally a very worthwhile new one comes along. So it’s a real pleasure to see Niels Windfield Lund’s new book Introduction to Documentation Studies (Facet, 2024). [Full disclosure: the foreword is written by Lyn Robinson and myself.]
Lund is one of the best known figures in the current documentation movement, and one of the pioneers of the new interest in document theory, reviving and refreshing the ideas of Otlet, Briet and the other originators of a theoretical analysis of documents (in the broadest sense) and documentation. As he says in an interview, this new book sets out his general theory of documentation, with documentation, communication and information seen as three complementary processes. Very well worth reading by anyone with an interest in this aspect of the information sciences.
The Occasional Informationist 