Mortimer Taube refined this slightly by defining documentation as the complex of activities required in the communication of specialized information including the preparation, reproduction, collection, analysis, organization, and dissemination of graphic records. Both of these statements would imply that library science as part of a much broader network of communications, is part of documentation. It is the open Sesame to all the wisdom and knowledge needed by, and stored up for, mankind. In sharp contrast with these opinions, Bradford was very explicit in his firm belief that documentation is subsidiary to library science. This disorder reigns in the production of documents of all kinds.
Documentation is the necessary remedy.
It will be observed at once that documentation is no more than on. But it is a special aspect needing a special study. For, while the wide subject of librarianship is concerned with every aspect of the treatment of books, the business of the documentalist is to make available the original information that has been recorded in articles in periodicals, pamphlets, reports, patent specifications and such records. Because the material, with which it deals is so much the more voluminous, its methods must be so much the more precise. So, by his unostentatious drudgery, the documentalist contributes to the increased production of genius, and becomes, by proxy, the benefactor of mankind.