Mechanized Documentation Group (UBA): Library Science and Documentation facing the coming of computers in the late 1960s in Argentina

Abstract

This paper presents advances about a historical research about the activities of the Mechanized Documentation Group, formed by librarian’s researchers of the Librarianship career the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the Library Science Institute (UBA), the Calculation Center (National Technological University, Buenos Aires) and the Center for Research and Application of Computer Science (UBA). From workplan and published results of the Mechanized Documentation Group, initial questions formulated for computer applications in the Argentine library field are acknowledged. It is possible to identify on these first reflections by professionals of Library Science and Documentation, the constitution of a solid basis for the development of Information Science in the last decades of the 20th century.