International Federation for Information and Documentation

International Federation for Information and Documentation

International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) is an international organization that was created to promote universal access to all recorded knowledge.

History

FID was established on 12th September, 1895, in Brussels, as the International Institute of Bibliography (originally Institut International de Bibliographie, IIB) by two Belgian lawyers, Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943).It was popularly known as the Brussels Institute. Its headquarters was changed to The Hague after 1934. It has gone through a number of changes in name that reflect changes of conceptualisation both of the field in which it operates.

The changes in names and years are :
*1931 - The International Institute for Documentation (Institut International de Documentation, IID)
*1937 - The International Federation for Documentation (Federation Internationale de Documentation, FID)
*1988 - The International Federation for Information and Documentation (Fédération Internationale d'Information et de Documentation, FID)

FID was dissolved in 2002.

Publications

one of the publications of FID is FID communications.

References

* [http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~wrayward/otlet/FIDHIST2.htm W. Boyd Rayward]
* [http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/fidhist.html Michael Buckland]
*Keenan, S. (2003). FID (Federation Internationale de Documentation). "In" International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science. 2nd ed. Ed. by John Feather & Paul Sturges. London: Routledge (pp. 196–198) [http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415259019&parent_id=&pc=/shopping_cart/search/search.asp? Description]


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