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-'''Documentalist''' is a kind of [[librarian]], trained in [[documentation (field)]] and specializing in assisting researchers in their search for scientific and technical documentation. With the development of bibliographical databases such as MEDLINE, documentalists were professionals who searched such databases on the behalf of users. +'''Information science''' is an [[interdisciplinarity|interdisciplinary]] science primarily concerned with the collection, [[Categorization|classification]], manipulation, storage, [[information retrieval|retrieval]] and dissemination of [[information]].
 +==European documentation==
 +The discipline of ''European Documentation'', which marks the earliest theoretical foundations of modern information science, emerged in the late part of the 19th Century together with several more scientific indexes whose purpose was to organize scholarly literature. Most information science historians cite [[Paul Otlet]] and [[Henri La Fontaine]] as the fathers of information science with the founding of the [[International Institute of Bibliography]] (IIB) in 1895.
 +==See also==
 +*[[Dewey Decimal Classification]]''
 +*[[Paul Otlet]]
 +*[[Classification]]
 +*[[Archive]]
 +*[[Librarian]]
 +*[[Imaginary library]]''
 +==See also==
 +* [[Informatics (academic field)|Informatics]]
 +* [[Information technology]] – The use of computers and technology to manage information.
 +* [[Enterprise content management]] – Strategies and technologies for managing content, documents and information
 +* [[International Federation for Information Processing]] – Global body for informatics.
 +* [[Research Methods Institute]] - Information science to empower researchers and analysts
 +* [[Personal information management|Personal information management (PIM)]]
 +* [[Philosophy of information]]
 +* [[Informative modelling]]
-When the field of documentation changed its name to [[information science]], the term information specialist often replaced the term documentalist.  
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Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information.

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The discipline of European Documentation, which marks the earliest theoretical foundations of modern information science, emerged in the late part of the 19th Century together with several more scientific indexes whose purpose was to organize scholarly literature. Most information science historians cite Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as the fathers of information science with the founding of the International Institute of Bibliography (IIB) in 1895.

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