@article{11369, author = {Michael K. Buckland}, title = {The Centenary of Madam Documentation: Suzanne Briet, 1894-1989}, abstract = {This is a biographical account of Suzanne Briet, 1884-1989, librarian, documentalist, historian, organizer, and feminist. One of the first few women appointed as librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Briet was a leader in the development of Documentation in the 1930s and until she retired in 1954. Her manifesto on the nature of Documentation, Qu'est-ce que la documentation? (Paris, 1951), remains significant for information science theory.}, year = {1995}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science}, volume = {46}, pages = {235-37}, language = {English}, }