School of Information Management & Systems
 Previously School of Library & Information Studies

  Michael Buckland, Professor

 FID Centenary: Publications and Sources.

FID publications:
Over 600 publications mostly in a numbered series: IIB / IID / FID Publications.
FID Publications: An 80 Year Bibliography, 1985-1975. (FID 531). The Hague: FID, 1975.
Former periodicals: IIB Bulletin (1895-1914), Documentatio Universalis (1931-33), IID Communicationes (1934-38), FID Communicationes (1939-46), Revue [Internationale] de Documentation (1947-1965), Informations FID (1951-60).
FID Occasional Papers series, 1989+
Current periodicals:
FID News Bulletin, 1960+
International Forum on Information and Documentation, 1975+
Newsletter on Education and Training programmes for Information Personnel, 1979+
FID Directory, biennial.
FID News Bulletin, monthly.

Early contributions:
Otlet, Paul. Traite de documentation. Brussels: Editiones Mundaneum, 1934. Repr. Liège: Centre de Lecture Publique de la Communauté Francaise, 1989.
Otlet, Paul. International Organization and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays. (FID 684). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990. Annotated translation of some of Otlet's best writings.

About IIB / IID / FID:
Donker Duyvis, Frits. International Federation for Documentation. Journal of Documentary Reproduction 3 (Sept 1940): pp. 176-190.
Arntz, Helmut. International Federation for Documentation (FID). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science vol. 12. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1974. pp. 377-402.
World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services. 3rd. ed. Chicago: ALA, 1993. pp. 376-78. (Also, for Paul Otlet, see pp. 642-44.)
Cent ans de l'Office International de Bibliographie : 1895 - 1995; les premisses du Mundaneum. (Mons: Editions Mundaneum, Rue des Passages 15, B-7000. ISBN 2-930071-05-2. [Review in German by K. Schreiber with additional references.]
Documentary by B. Rayward (speaking English) and F. Fueg (speaking French): Alle kennis van de wereld. (Noorderlicht, no. 9). Available from VPRO, P.O Box 10, 1200 JB Hilversum, The Netherlands.

Biography:
Rayward, W. Boyd. The Universe of Information: The Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization. (FID 520). Moscow: VINITI, 1975.
Abs, Robert. Fontaine (Henri-Marie la) [1854-1943]. Biographie nationale. t. 38, suppl. 10. Bruxelles: Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres des Beaux Arts de Belgique, 1973-4. Cols. 215-221.
F. Donker Duyvis. His Life and Work. The Hague: Netherlands Institute for Documentation and Filing, 1964.

The Universal Decimal Classification:
Universal Decimal Classification. International Medium Edition. English Text. London: British Standards Institute, 1985. Several editions in other languages have been produced.
Rayward, W. Boyd. The UDC and FID: A historical perspective. Library Quarterly 37 (1967): 259-78.
Foskett, A.C. The Universal Decimal Classification: The history, present status, and future prospects of a large general classification scheme. London: Bingley, 1973.
Robinson, G. UDC in brief. BSI/DISC, 1994.
Extensions and Corrections to the UDC 1994. The Hague: UDC Consortium 1994.
McIlwaine, Ia C. Guide to the use of UDC. (FID 703). The Hague: 1995 revised edition.
The UDC: Essays for a new decade, ed. by A. Gilchrist & D. Strachan. London: Aslib, 1990.

Other Contributions to technique and technology:
Buckland. Michael. Information retrieval of more than text. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42 (1991): 586-588. Discusses Otlet, multimedia, and the wide scope of documentation.
Rayward, W. Boyd. Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and hypertext. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 45 (1994): 235-250. The "monographic principle" of IIB as an anticipation of hypertext.

The broader context and related developments:
Bradford, Samuel C. Documentation. London: Crosby Lockwood, 1948; rev.ed. 1953. A standard introduction to Documentation, incomplete and now outdated.
Briet, Suzanne. Qu'est-ce que la documentation? Paris: EDIT, 1951. A manifesto with significant theoretical insights.
Farkas-Conn, Irene S. From Documentation to Information Science: The Beginnings and Early Development of the American Documentation Institute American Society for Information Science. New York: Greenwood, 1990. For the U.S.A.
Delmas, Bruno. Une fonction nouvelle: Genèse et developpement des centres de documentation. In: Histoire des bibliothèques francaises. [v.4] Les bibliothèques au XXe siècle, 1914-1990. Paris: Promodis - Editions du Cercle de la Librarie, 1992, pp. 178-93. About documentation in France but of a wider interest.
Celebrating FID's Centennial - The Tokyo Resolution - FID News Bulletin 44 (1994):10, pp. 115 - 117.
Goedebuure, Ben G. FID approaching its 100th Anniversary. FID News Bulletin 44 (1994):10, pp. 217-220.
Goedebuure, Ben G. FID Task Force on Global Information Infrastructures and Superhighways (GIIS). FID News Bulletin 44 (1994):10, pp. 221-223.
Launo, Ritva and Ben G. Goedebuure/ FID: preparing for the challenges of the New Millennium. FID News Bulletin 45 (1995):1, pp. 3-4.

FID: International Federation for Information and Documentation; P.O. Box 90402 * 2509 LK The Hague, Netherlands. Tel +31 70 3140671   Fax 31 70 3140667   secretariat@fid.nl
The Mundaneum, the archives and museum of Otlet & La Fontaine, Rue des Passages 15, Mons, B-7000, Belgium.

Based on leaflet issued by the FID Education and Training Committee, 1995.

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