Abstract:

Documentation has a very long history in China but it had another name “Jiaochou studies” in ancient times. The construction of the discipline system of Documentation has experienced three stages in China: The discipline system of Documentation of the early Republic of China, it was changed from “Jiaochou studies” with a lot of characteristics of traditional Chinese academic; The discipline system of Documentation of 1980s, it was a threeinone structure consisted of edition studies, textual criticism and bibliography; The discipline system of Documentation from 1990s to the early 21st  century, it was a macro integration of ancient and modern Documentation. This paper analyzes the basic features and shortcomings of these three discipline systems and argues that: The research object and core contents should be looked as the basis of the discipline system of Documentation because of their different discipline attributes; It is not appropriate to divide Documentation into the traditional part and modern part in the trend of the integration of disciplines; It is very important to highlight the core position of literature organization and utilization and avoid the discipline generalization. Finally, the authors try to set up a new discipline system of Documentation based on its research object and core contents.

Keywords: Documentation, Discipline system, Documentation education, Discipline construction of documentation