初一看,讨论自1895年在比利时创建一个国际组织以来情报学的发展史是一个比较有难度的问题。因为这个组织与英语国家间的联系不多,而且1995年,F·R夏皮罗在《美国情报学会杂志》上发表了《情报学术语的创造》一文,文中认为“情报学”一词直到1955年才首次被使用。但我们又会发现,即使对国际目录学会的历史及活动进行一个简略的回顾,也能看出它们在人们现在称其为“情报学”的发展过程中起着重要的作用。在此文中,我们将看到比利时目录学家保罗·奥特雷特和他的同事们在国际目录学会前后的研究工作中形成的理论和进行的实践活动。本文仅局限于 At first glance, it is a difficult question to discuss the history of information science since the establishment of an international organization in Belgium in 1895. Because there is not much connection between this organization and the English-speaking countries, and in 1995, SF Shapiro published an article entitled “Creation of Information Science Terms” in the Journal of the American Institute of Intelligence. In his article, “Information Science” The word was not used for the first time until 1955. But again we find that even a brief review of the history and activities of the International Catalog Institute shows that they play an important role in the development of what people now call “informatics.” In this article, we will see the theories and practices that the Belgian bibliographer Paul Ottrat and his colleagues developed in the context of the research conducted before and after the International Catalog of Societies. This article is limited to