Abstract
Several statements serve as the point of departure : the inventory of documents cannot substitute for the documents themselves but rather serve as a witness to their existence; all national memory is based upon a national collection that needs a methodical inventory for public use; the national bibliography makes an inventory without passing value judgements; this judgement will come in due course to define the patrimony. It is then shown that the objectives of national bibliography such as they have been defined by Universal Bibliographic Control, make it the privileged witness of only a part of the national memory and that, for economic reasons, it does not always completely fulfill its role.
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