documentalist
Sign in to saveA documentalist is a professional, trained in documentation science and specializing in assisting researchers in their search for scientific and technical documentation. With the development of bibliographical databases such as MEDLINE, documentalists were professionals who searched such databases on the behalf of users.
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- Instance of
- profession
- Subclass of
- librarian
- Image
- Birch bark document №531.png
- Field of occupation
- teaching
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- female form of label
- dokumentalistka
- male form of label
- documentaliste
- Commons category
- Documentalists
- uses
- thesaurus
- described at URL
- web.arbeitsagentur.de/berufenet/beruf/59274
- P13411
- Groningen
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A documentalist is a professional, trained in documentation science and specializing in assisting researchers in their search for scientific and technical documentation. With the development of bibliographical databases such as MEDLINE, documentalists were professionals who searched such databases on the behalf of users.
When the field of documentation changed its name to information science, the terms information specialist or information professional often replaced the term documentalist.
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