School of Information Sciences

W. Boyd Rayward

Boyd Rayward

Professor Emeritus

Research focus

Paul Otlet’s ideas in relation to the Internet, the World Wide Web, and information science; utopian schemes of knowledge organization including H.G. Wells’s idea of a world brain; the implications of digitization and networking for libraries and museums.

School of Information Sciences

501 E. Daniel St.

MC-493

Champaign, IL

61820-6211

Voice: (217) 333-3280

Fax: (217) 244-3302

Email: ischool@illinois.edu

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