
warden rayward
W. Boyd Rayward is emeritus professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois and in the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management of the University of New South Wales.
He was educated in Australia and the US. His PhD is from the University of Chicago. He has held professorial and decanal positions in the University of Chicago and the University of New South Wales. In 2000 he was made the 25th Honorary Member of the Australian Library and Information Association. He is the recipient of the 2004 American Society for Information Science and Technology Research Award.
His recent research has involved studies of Paul Otlet’s ideas as they relate to the Internet, the World Wide Web and the beginnings of modern information science, a number of utopian schemes of knowledge organization including H.G.Wells’s idea of a world brain, and, from an historical point of view, the implications of digitisation and networking for libraries and museums.
He was educated in Australia and the US. His PhD is from the University of Chicago. He has held professorial and decanal positions in the University of Chicago and the University of New South Wales. In 2000 he was made the 25th Honorary Member of the Australian Library and Information Association. He is the recipient of the 2004 American Society for Information Science and Technology Research Award.
His recent research has involved studies of Paul Otlet’s ideas as they relate to the Internet, the World Wide Web and the beginnings of modern information science, a number of utopian schemes of knowledge organization including H.G.Wells’s idea of a world brain, and, from an historical point of view, the implications of digitisation and networking for libraries and museums.
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of a variety of professional practices related to the dissemination and use of information. I have published a number of historical studies examining
utopian schemes for managing knowledge, the evolution of institutionalized or organizational aspects of information infrastructure (as represented especially by libraries, museums and systems for the international organization and dissemination of information), and the emergence of what I think of as an interdiscipline - nowadays often designated library and information science - concerned with
the study of these phenomena.