THE UNIVERSE OF INFORMATION.pdf - ideals

Paul Otlet at the World Congress of Universal Documentation
Paris, August -1937
form of the encyclopedia, an idea which, in a different form,
Otlet had been writing about for decades. Here Otlet met
Wells and made «magnificent improvisations*. 45
Bradford regarded the World Congress of Universal
Documentation as the culmination of a rival scheme. Jean
Gerard, he asserted, had induced the International Institute
of Intellectual Co-operation to call the Congress with the
view to setting up a new Institute for Documentation in
Paris. Gerard had powerful support and for Bradford there
was «no doubt the project would have been achieved, had
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