Niels Windfeld Lund became the first employee and full professor in Documentation Studies at the Department of Documentation Studies, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. Dr Lund was Associate Professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark and has twice been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2001 Dr Lund founded The Document Academy, an international network for Documentation studies organising annual DOCAM conferences around the world. He is still active as Professor Emeritus, participating in research projects.
"""A timely and important contribution to a flourishing scholarly field, Lund's book on documentation theory aspires to offer a unifying approach to human communication and documentation. Building on key figures in communication and information theory, and elaborating on established concepts in the field as well as adjacent disciplines and traditions, he develops a theory and a model of documentation analysis which has the potential to synthesize the many diverse approaches found in existing theories of documentation and communication. It is historically informed, theoretically solid, and well done--a joy to read."" -- Professor Anne Mangen, Norwegian Reading Centre, University of Stavanger, Norway"