Abstract

Wilson stated that the work of providing bibliographic services is political in nature because catalogers have to adjudicate amongst the demands made for various forms of control by different communities. Although he did not address the work of the Documentalists directly, his claim is an implicit refutation of their universalist claims. Their efforts were to bring all the world’s knowledge together, organize it under a single principle, and make it available to an undifferentiated global community. The concept of “universality” is examined in the context of bibliographic services, looking at claims regarding the collection of knowledge, users, and access.

摘要

威尔逊表示，提供书目服务的工作本质上是政治性的，因为编目员必须在不同社区对各种形式的控制提出的要求中做出裁决。尽管他没有直接谈到文献主义者的工作，但他的主张是对他们普遍主义主张的含蓄反驳。他们的努力是将世界上所有的知识汇集在一起​​，在一个单一的原则下组织起来，并将其提供给一个无差别的全球社区。“普遍性”的概念是在书目服务的背景下考察的，着眼于关于知识、用户和访问的集合的声明。