In library science the term record is mostly used about bibliographical records, that is: a representation of a document. In archival science the term is used about the archived documents. This last meaning have given life to the field known as “records management”.

Examples:

Catalog record from The Royal Danish Military Library (RDML): Catalog record from RDML (With abstracts written by the library staff).

Record from Social SciSearch(R): Record (Core Concepts in LIS).

Literature:

Penn, I. A., Pennix, G. B., and Coulson, J. (1994). Records management handbook. 2^nd.ed. Aldershot: Gower.

Records management journal. London: Aslib, 1989- ^.

See also: Record (Core Concepts in LIS).

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 05-07-2006

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