Did you know that...

The first biographer of Mundaneum founder, Paul Otlet is Australian! It took us 30 years after Paul Otlet's death in 1944, and the work of an Australian student named Boyd Rayward (University of Illinois, USA), to get Paul Otlet’s very first biography in 1974. The biography is titled The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and international Organization. Boyd Rayward is also known as an expert of the British writer HG Wells's work.

Since then, a wide network of international scholars and scientific research has gradually built up around Paul Otlet’s heritage. Here, we reference a few publications...

And Boyd Rayward tells us about his encounter with the Mundaneum galaxy: