The lady and the antelope: Suzanne Briet's contribution to the French documentation movement. From: Library Trends | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Maack, Mary Niles | COPYRIGHT 2004 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ABSTRACT

During her thirty years at the Bibliotheque Nationale (BN), Suzanne Briet (1894-1989) made important theoretical, organizational, and institutional contributions to the documentation movement in France. This article attempts to place her documentation work within the context of the far-reaching reform of French libraries, with special attention to the transformation of the BN. Like her colleagues in special libraries, Briet embraced modernity and science. Becaus...