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Bibliography

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Front page of the book "International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge" (selected essays by Paul Otlet)
edited by W. Boyd Rayward

• Otlet, Paul, Traité de documentation, Bruxelles, Mundaneum, Palais Mondial, 1934.
• Rayward, Warden Boyd, https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/651 The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and international Organization], FID Publication 520, Moscow, International Federation for Documentation by the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (Viniti), 1975.
• Rayward, Warden Boyd, Universum informastsii Zhizn' i deiatl' nost' Polia Otle, Trans. R.S. Giliarevesky, Moscow, VINITI, 1976.
• Rayward, Warden Boyd, Otlet, Paul, International Organization and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1990.
• Judge, Anthony, “Union of International Associations – Virtual Organization – Paul Otlet's 100-year Hypertext Conundrum?”, 2001.
• Sánchez, Zurita, Manuel, Juan, El paradigma otletiano como base de un modelo para la organización y difusión del conocimiento científico, México, El Author, Tesina, Colegio de Bibliotecología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, 2001.
• Wright, Alex, “Forgotten Forefather”, in Boxes & Arrows, 10 November 2003.
• Ducheyne, Steffen, “Paul Otlet's Theory of Knowledge and Linguistic Objectivism”, in Knowledge Organization, no 32, 2005, pp. 110–116.
• Rayward, Warden Boyd, El Universo de la Documentacion: la obra de Paul Otlet sobra documentacion y organizacion internacional, Trans. Pilar Arnau Rived, Madrid, Mundarnau, 2005.
• Levie, Françoise, L’homme qui voulait classer le monde. Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum, Bruxelles, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2006.
• Wright, Alex, Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages, Washington D.C., Joseph Henry Press, 2007.
• Heuvel, Charles van den, “Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web”. in European Modernism and the Information Society – Informing the Present, Understanding the Past, Aldershot, 2008, pp. 127–153.
• Wright, Alex, The Web Time Forgot, The New York Times, 17 June 2008.
• Van Acker, Wouter, “Internationalist Utopias of Visual Education. The Graphic and Scenographic Transformation of the Universal Encyclopaedia in the Work of Paul Otlet, Patrick Geddes, and Otto Neurath”, in Perspectives on Science, Vol.19, nr.1, 2011, p. 32-80.
• Van Acker, Wouter, “Universalism as Utopia. A Historical Study of the Schemes and Schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)”, Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University Press, Zelzate, 2011.
• Van Acker, Wouter, Somsen, Geert, “A Tale of Two World Capitals – the Internationalisms of Pieter Eijkman and Paul Otlet”, in Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, Vol. 90, nr.4, 2012.
• Van Acker, Wouter. "Architectural Metaphors of Knowledge: The Mundaneum Designs of Maurice Heymans, Paul Otlet, and Le Corbusier." Library Trends 61, no. 2 (2012): 371-396.
• Wright, Alex, Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age, Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Popova, Maria, “The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity Shaped Our World”, Brain Pickings, 2014.