What Is Documentation? - Scarecrow Press

Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the following people and organizations without
whom this book would not have been possible: Renée Lemaître and Danièle
Degez for their advice about the translation, Françoise Lauters for her assistance
with copyright, Robert Pagès for his kind welcome and recollections
about Suzanne Briet, and Michael Buckland for the biographical and bibliographical
sections of this book and for doing so much to introduce Briet to
contemporary scholarship worldwide. We would like to thank Hermina G. B.
Anghelescu for reading an early version of this translation and making attentive
and learned corrections to it; her work was invaluable in this project.
We would also like to thank Suzanne Briet’s heirs, Monsieur Jean-Paul
Etienne and Monsieur Pascal Etienne, who very generously gave us permission
to publish this translation. And last, we would like to thank Scarecrow
Press for being willing to publish Briet’s long-forgotten work and for their
very generous permission to post sections of the present book electronically
for the benefit of scholars and others across the globe.
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Laurent Martinet