Now, documentation science in Ukraine is deprived of the status of a scientific discipline in the official list of scientific specialties, the number of scientific forums and, consequently, publications devoted to its scientific problems has been reduced, and a university documentary educational specialty has been eliminated. According to the author, the forerunner to this was the processes associated with the formation in Ukraine of two versions of documentation science – «documentological» ( «library documentation science») and classical (based on the ideas of the 1960-1970s, the famous Soviet archivist K. G. Mityaev). In the 1990s, when the scientific status of documentation science was not officially approved in Ukraine, the documentological version was progressive. However, after the official approval of the scientific specialty «Documentation Sciences, Archival Studies» in the framework of historical science (2001), supporters of documentology began the struggle for the formal separation of these sciences from special branches of historical science, which ended with their joining the disciplines within the scientific specialty «Social Communications» (2008). Dissemination of documentologe views in Ukrainian universities within the framework of the new specialty «Information, Library, Archival» leads to the dominance of library science over archival studies, a decrease in the number of hours of the course «Archival Studies» (compared to library science, its reading is much more complicated and much less specialists) . Hence the actual leveling or disappearance of documentary courses. It is indisputable that the «abolition» of classical documentation science did not remove the practical needs for studies of the legal and methodological support for the organization of the sphere of archival business and paperwork. These studies in the modern conditions of implementation and functioning of electronic document management, the creation of electronic archives require, within these areas, a review of the organization of traditional office work and archive processes. On the other hand, there is an urgent need to harmonize these processes with the norms of international standards for the management of documentary processes. The article provides examples of recent developments in the field of documentation science and the organization of university education in Ukraine, which can be considered the most promising areas in the development of this scientific discipline

documentation science; archival science; scientific discipline; academic discipline; documentology; development directions