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Cataloging the world

"In Cataloging the World, Alex Wright brings to light the forgotten genius of Paul Otlet, an introverted librarian who harbored a bookworm's dream to organize all the world's information. Recognizing the limitations of traditional libraries and archives, Otlet began to imagine a radically new way of organizing information, and undertook his life's great work: a universal bibliography of all the world's published knowledge that ultimately totaled more than 12 million individual entries. Wright tells not just the story of a failed entrepreneur, but the story of a powerful idea -- the dream of universal knowledge -- that has captivated humankind since before the great Library at Alexandria." [extrait du catalogue de l'éditeur]

Notice bibliographique

WRIGHT, Alex. Cataloging the world. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. 350 p. ISBN 9780199931415