WORDS AND DOCUMENTS
- 1 July 1971
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Aslib Proceedings
- Vol. 23 (7) , 337-350
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050293
Abstract
Those of us who look back on a lifetime of work in librarianship, documentation and education—what is nowadays called communication—are often tempted to try to define our terms. Subconsciously we are probably trying to separate the sheep from the goats. Precision in terminology is necessary, especially in the sciences. But what I am going to talk about is more akin to the arts. I would like to take a more general, broader view of our function, our stake in the continuity and the quality of civilization as a whole.Keywords
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