documentalist
(ˌdɒkjʊˈmɛntəlɪst)
[f. documental a. + -ist.]
A person engaged in documentation (see documentation 3 b).
| 1939 Nature 23 Sept. 560/1 The Section devoted to the Division of Work between Libraries and Documentalists. 1948 S. C. Bradford Documentation 11 The documentalist is enabled to put before the creative specialist the existing literature, bearing on the subject of his investigation, in order that he may be saved from the dissipation of his genius upon work already done. |