id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15859 Mitchell, W. Bede Briet, Suzanne. What Is Documentation? English Translation of the Classic French Text. Trans. and ed. Ronald E. Day and Laurent Martinet with Hermina G.B. Anghelescu. Lanham, Md.: Scare-crow, 2006. 84p. alk. paper, $25 (ISBN 0810851092). LC 2005-23628. 2007-03-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1269 68 52 So while a star, a pebble, and a living animal are not documents, photographs and catalogues of stars are documents, stones in a museum of mineralogy are docu- ments, and animals that are cataloged and shown in a zoo are documents. Books and similar written works are types of docu- ments, and, given Briet’s understanding of documents, it follows that librarians are a type of “documentalist.” cache/crl-15859.pdf txt/crl-15859.txt