Paul Otlet: References & Edit History
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W. Boyd Rayward, “The Case of Paul Otlet, Pioneer of Information Science, Internationalist, Visionary: Reflections on Biography,” Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 23(3):135–145 (September 1991), and The Universe of Information: The Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organisation (1975), are studies of Otlet’s life and work. Alex Wright, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (2014), presents Otlet as a visionary whose legacy persists. The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World (2002), produced by Pierre Levie and Anna Van der Wee, is a video documentary. Otlet is also considered in Alex Wright, Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages (2007).
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| Added metadata and cross references. | Sep 21, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 06, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| Changed "Henri-Paul Lafontaine" to "Henri La Fontaine." | Jul 08, 2015 | ||
| Alex Wright's Cataloging the World (2014) added to bibliography. | Jun 17, 2014 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Union of International Associations - Biography of Paul Otlet. | Nov 26, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Union of International Associations - Biography of Paul Otlet. | Jul 24, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - The Web Time Forgot. | Dec 15, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - The Web Time Forgot. | Dec 15, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Case of Otlet Otlet, Pioneer of Information Science, Ineternationalist, Visionary. | Dec 15, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Case of Otlet Otlet, Pioneer of Information Science, Ineternationalist, Visionary. | Dec 15, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Union of International Associations - Biography of Paul Otlet. | Dec 15, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Union of International Associations - Biography of Paul Otlet. | Dec 15, 2011 | ||
| Photo of Otlet added. | Mar 13, 2009 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Mar 11, 2009 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Mar 11, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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