The Historical Development of Information Infrastructures and the Dissemination of Knowledge: A Personal Reflection
“With the advent of the Internet and the Web, it has become clear how pioneering and important historically the work of Paul Otlet and his colleagues was. It seems yet even more relevant today with the recently announced agreement between Google and a number of research libraries to digitize and make their collections available through the Web.” (W. Boyd Rayward – ASIS&T Bulletin April/May 2005)