# Documentalist

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A **documentalist** is a professional, trained in [documentation science](/source/Documentation_science) and specializing in assisting researchers in their search for scientific and technical documentation. With the development of [bibliographical databases](/source/Bibliographical_database) such as [MEDLINE](/source/MEDLINE), documentalists were professionals who searched such databases on the behalf of users.

When the field of documentation changed its name to [information science](/source/Information_science), the terms information specialist or [information professional](/source/Information_professional) often replaced the term documentalist.

## See also

- [Archivist](/source/Archivist)

- [Information scientist](/source/Information_scientist)

- [Information professional](/source/Information_professional)

- [Librarian](/source/Librarian)

## Literature

- Bowles, M. D. (1999). [The information wars: Two cultures and the conflict in information retrieval, 1945-1999](http://webdoc.gwdg.de/ebook/s/2001/chf/www.chemheritage.org/historicalservices/asis_documents/asis98_bowles.pdf). In: M. E. Bowden, T. B. Hahn, & R. V. Williams (eds.), [*Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems*](http://assets.chemheritage.org/explore/ASIS_documents/ASIS98_main.htm). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130509191930/http://assets.chemheritage.org/explore/ASIS_documents/ASIS98_main.htm) 2013-05-09 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) (pp. 156–166). Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. for the American Society for Information Science and the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

- [Bradford, S. C.](/source/Samuel_C._Bradford) (1953). *Documentation*. 2nd ed. With an introd. by Jesse H. Shera and Margaret E. Egan. London: Crosby Lockwood.

- Meadows, A. J. (1990). "Theory in Information Science". *Journal of Information Science*, 16, 59–63.

- Olsson, L. (1991). "Bibliotekarieyrkets framtidida status". In: Enmark, E. (ed.). *Biblioteken och framtiden*. Göteborg: Centrum för bibliotekforskning.

- Olsson, L. (1992). "I&D och profession - en fråga om teknik? Bidrag til 8:de Nordiska IoD", Helsingborg 19-21 maj, 1992. 10 sider.

- [Shera, J.](/source/Jesse_Shera) (1960). *School of Library Science Annual Report (1960–61)*. Cleveland, OH: Western Reserve University.

- Williams, R. V. (1998). "The Documentation and Special Libraries Movement in the United States, 1910–1960". In: Hahn, T. B. & Buckland, M. (eds.): *Historical Studies in Information Science*. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. (pp. 173–180).

## External links

- ["Librarian versus Documentalist"](http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/librarianvsdocumentalisty1953.html) – 1953 article by [Eugene Garfield](/source/Eugene_Garfield)

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