50 Years Ago
Documentation in Action — “The world of thought (scholarship) and the world of action have always been interdependent”, and this means that to provide for an efficient human society we require to build up an efficient scheme of communications. At the present time with the rapid increase of knowledge, and even more rapid increase of the volume of publications, this need is becoming even more imperative… The newly emerging science, dealing with the organization of human knowledge, which has not as yet received a distinctive name, includes a very large number of departmental aspects, such as…principles of classification, library organization, card systems and recording and calculating machines… The choice of terms used in this book ('processing', 'project', 'language engineering' and the verb 'to programme') brings us into close contact with the American vitality of language and action; but this need not deter the scientist, or engineer, or anyone dealing with organized knowledge or administration from studying this book.
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