2. ‘‘The term documentation is a neologism invented by [Paul] Otlet to designate what today we
tend to call Information Storage and Retrieval. In fact it is not too much to claim the Traite ´
[Traite ´ de Documentation, 1934] as one of the first information science textbooks’’
(Rayward, 1994, p. 238). In 1968 American Documentation Institute changed its name to
American Society for Information Science (ASIS), which is another indication that IS
developed from documentation.