Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet was a Belgian bibliographer, lawyer, and peace activist, and a key figure in documentation science, a precursor to information science.
Otlet in 1937
The Hotel Otlet, Paul Otlet's mansion, designed by Octave van Rysselberghe in 1894
Répertoire Bibliographique Universel
Front page of the book International Organisation and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet, edited by W. Boyd Rayward
Bibliography is a word with two different senses. According to English author and scholar of books John Carter, one sense, probably the more common, is a list of books, texts, or full citations for fu
Paul Otlet
…Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (; French: ; 23 August 1868 – 10 December 1944) was a Belgian bibliographer, lawyer, and peace activist, and a key figure in documentation science, a precursor to information science. Otlet created the Universal Decimal…
Enumerative bibliographies in the form of published books at the University of Graz Library
Bibliographer workplace in Russia
Paul Otlet, working in an office built at his home following the closure of the Palais Mondial, in June 1937