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To cover all formats the term documentation2 was preferred over the older use of bibliography not only to enlarge the idea of embracing archives as wells as libraries, but because documentation included everything, the physical and the metaphysical, where

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To cover all formats the term documentation2 was preferred over the older use of bibliography not only to enlarge the idea of embracing archives as wells as libraries, but because documentation included everything, the physical and the metaphysical, whereas information seemed to pertain more to the latter.

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