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The Journal of Documentary Reproduction (JDR ) was a Background publication of the American Library Association (ALA) To Scholars, Scientists, Archivists, Librarians, Edifrom 1938 through 1942 that addressed a variety of toptors, Authors and all others interested in scientific aids ics in the field of documentation. This article places the to learning: journal in an historical context and defines its domain in terms of the characteristics of its contributors. Part of a You will wish to follow the continued story of the larger project involving JDR and its successor, American amazing genii who transport to firesides, office desks Documentation (AD ) (now the Journal of the American and library tables the marvelous miniature images of the Society for Information Science ) , this study of the comworld’s wisdom heretofore unavailable generally in print plete run of JDR examines characteristics of authorship, and manuscript form. If the Mountain came to Mahomet, including occupation, institutional affiliation, geographic it would seem scarcely more miraculous than the everydistribution, and gender. Sources from the ALA Archives day facts of microphotography. were consulted for information about the formation and The new Journal announced herewith will also keep dissolution of JDR. you in touch with other marvelous means of economically reproducing written, typed and printed messages. It will report new processes, and record the applications of scientific aids to the services rendered by archives, libraries Introduction and museums. (ALA-SCPT, 1938) The domain, or disciplinarity, of an area of scholarly activity or profession can be measured in many ways. Sounding almost like a spiel for a wonder tonic, this announcement about the initiation of a new journal for One means involves the analysis of the scholarly or professional communication in a field, particularly as repremicrophotography, JDR, was made by Charles E. Rush, Chair of the American Library Association (ALA) Comsented in that field’s journal literature. The present study seeks to identify the domain of documentation shortly mittee on Photographic Reproduction of Library Materials. Subtitled ‘‘A Quarterly Review of the Application of after the formation in 1937 of the American Documentation Institute (ADI). The Journal of Documentary ReproPhotography and Allied Techniques to Library, Museum and Archival Service,’’ JDR was a publication of the duction (JDR) was selected for analysis because it was a major journal in the field of documentation during that ALA for 5 years, 1938–1942, and in 1950 was succeeded by AD, under the management of ADI. ADI changed its period, and because it was the predecessor of American Documentation (AD) and the Journal of the American name to the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) in 1968 and AD changed its name in 1970 to the Society for Information Science (JASIS) . The latter are different names for one of the most important journals in Journal of the American Society for Information Science. JDR was edited by Vernon D. Tate (Chief of the Division documentation, information science, and library science for the periods 1950 to 1969 and 1970 to the present, of Photographic Reproduction and Research of the National Archives) , who was assisted by an editorial board respectively. Because JDR existed for a mere 5 years, its description and analysis can be based on the entire run, of library directors and leaders in the new field of microphotography. In a formal three-page announcement rather than on sample issues or articles. (ALA-JDR, 1938), which was a variation of the formal proposal to the ALA to start the new journal (ALA-JDR,

Journal of Documantary Reproduction, 1938-1942: Domain as Reflected in Characteristics of Authorship and Citation