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| Le livre su le livre. Le Traité de Documentation, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2015 The Treaty of documentation. The book on the book is published in Brussels in 1934 by Paul Otlet (1868 to 1944). Known as the father of modern information science, Paul Otlet founded the Mundaneum in 1895 with Henri La Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize in 1913). His treatise is a summary of the work he performs in this vast enterprise to gather, classify and share all the knowledge of the world. In this groundbreaking book, he exposes his futuristic and visionary ideas on the proposed information according to its different supports, its organization and circulation patterns. Based on technologies currently or planned in his time, such as radio, telephone or television, he imagines a kind of mechanical brain that integrates sound and image, makes it possible to combine information and the share with their networking. This text makes reference still shows forerunner of computer and the Internet.
Price: 38,00 €
Henri La Fontaine, Prix Nobel de la Paix en 1913. Un belge épris de justice, Éditions Racine, 2012. Emblematic figure of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943) is one of the first socialist senators in Belgium. Ardent defender of women's rights and democracy, bibliographer and founder, with Paul Otlet, of the Mundaneum, president of the International Peace Bureau, he is a key figure in Belgian and international pacifism. In this book, published by the Mundaneum in collaboration with the secular action center, several specialized authors examine different facets of the character, by replacing the actions he has undertaken in the context of the time. Price: 24,00 €
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![]() | Mundaneum : Archives of Knowledge, Occasional Papers n°215, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, mai 2010.
Price: 10,00 € |
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Figurehead of documentation, Paul Otlet (1868-1944) still captivates today. This pioneer accomplished an original work in the areas of bibliography, photography, schemes, encyclopaedias or museum. This utopian, with his project of a ‘World City’, aimed to ‘build stones around ideas’. In this book, specialists from different backgrounds approach these themes and other more confidential aspects that deserve our attention. Price : 10,00 € |
![]() | Le Mundaneum, les archives de la connaissance, Éditions Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2008, 97 p. Published in 2008, 10 years after the Mundaneum opened its doors to the public in Mons, this book includes (almost) everything there is to know about the Mundaneum: a summary of knowledge made possible through an inventory, filing and publication task starting from the fabulous heritage of the two founders of the Mundaneum, Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine.
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![]() | Henri La Fontaine, Prijs Nobel de la paix : tracé[s] d'une vie, préface par Hervé Hasquin, Mons, Mundaneum, 2002, 118 p. Out of print |
![]() | Françoise Levie, L’homme qui voulait classer le monde - Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum, Éditions Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2006
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![]() | Cent ans de l'Office International de Bibliographie, 1895-1995 : les prémisses du Mundaneum, Mons, éditions du Mundaneum, 1995, 368 p. Out of print More info |
![]() | Bettina Cerisier, Jean-François Fueg, Le Mundaneum. Un internet de papier, Éditions Mundaneum, Mons, 1998, 80 p. Out of print |
![]() | Suzanne Lecocq, Jean-François Fueg, Le pacifisme est-il une valeur universelle, Actes du colloque des 25 & 26 novembre 1999, collection Etudes et Documents n°1, Mundaneum, Mons, 2001, 132 p. Price: 1,00 € |