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Footnote

Rez. in: KO 33(2006) no.2, S. 120-121 (S. Ducheyne): "To the readers of this journal the founding founder of bibliography and information science, the Belgian Paul Otlet (1868-1944), ground-layer of the Universal Decimal Classification, anticipator of multimedia, virtual libraries, and the Internet, and co-inventor of the microfilm or, as it was originally called, "le Bibliophote" (p. 107) (an achievement he shares together with Robert Goldschmidt), scarcely needs introduction. Françoise Levie's new biography of Otlet embodies the research she has started with the production of the documentary of the same name (Sofidoc, 2002, 60 min.). It is impossible to give a chapter-bychapter overview of this informatively dense and beautifully illustrated book, which consists of twenty chapters, a concluding piece by Benoît Peeters, a very useful list and description of the pivotal figures in Otlet's life, and a list containing the locations of the sources consulted (an index is, unfortunately, not provided). I will therefore restrict myself by pointing to Levie's innovative contributions to our knowledge of Otlet and to topics that are of genuine interest to the readers of this journal. Levie's book is the result of a fascinating, worldwide quest into the remains of Otlet's work and his international connections. Ever since W Boyd Rayward's monumental 1975 The Universe of Information: The Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organization (Moscow: VINITI), this book is the second systematic survey of the Collections of the Mundaneum (now, after various peregrinations, preserved at Bergen/Mons, Belgium) (cf. pp. 339-340), which contains Otlet's private documents, the "Otletaneum". Sixty-eight unopened banana boxes were the main source of inspirations for Levie's research. Of special interest in this respect is Levie's discovery of Otlet's 1916 diary "le Cahier Blue". As these boxes were, at the time Levie conducted her research, not classified and as they were thereafter re-divided and re-classified, precise references to this collection are not provided and the text is simply quoted during the course of the book (p. 339). While this is perfectly understandable, I would have welcomed exact references to Otlet's main works such as, for instance, Traité de documentation and Monde, Essai d'universalisme which are also quoted without supplying further details.
Levie's focus is not exclusively on Otlet's contributions to bibliography and information science per se, but aims at offering a very complete, chronological overview of the life and work of Paul Otlet. Levie succeeds very well at documenting Otlet's personal and familial life, and offers ample socio-historical and political contextualisation of Otlet's activities (e.g. the interaction between Otlet's internationalist endeavours and the expansionist politics of King Leopold II (p. 59), and Otlet's ardent pacifism during World War I are relevantly highlighted (pp. 161176)). Levie begins by exploring Otlet's childhood days and by bringing into perspective some of the traits which are relevant to understand his later work. She shows how his father Edouard, an internationally active railway contractor, awoke a mondial awareness in the young Otlet (pp. 20-21) and how his encyclopaedic spirit for the first time found expression in a systematic inventory of the small Mediterranean isle his father bought (L'île du Levant, 1882) (p. 31). From the age of 16 Otlet suffered from a disorder of his literal memory (Otlet's personal testimony in the Cahier Blue, on p. 47), which might perhaps explain his lifelong obsession with completeness and accuracy. Of special interest to the readers of this journal are chapter 4, in which Otlet's and Henri Lafontaine's adaptation of Melvil Dewey's Decimal Classification and the origin of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is discussed in extenso (pp. 5170; also see chapter 6, p. 98 for Otlet's attempt at a universal iconographical index) and chapter 17, in which Traité de documentation (1934) is presented

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Abstract

The idea of organising a Symposium and a volume of essays in honour of Magda Heiner-Freiling first came up in a discussion at the Durban IFLA Conference in August 2007, shortly after the death of Magda. Joan Mitchell thought of this beautiful idea as a way to acknowledge Magda's contributions and influence in the field of international librarianship. Elisabeth Niggemann immediately espoused this idea and committed Deutsche Nationalbibliothek resources to making it a reality. It is fitting that this publication and the International Symposium »New Perspectives on Subject Indexing and Classification in an International Context« held at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek on April 10 would be the outcome of discussions held at the Durban IFLA Conference. For Magda, IFLA conferences were where ideas are discussed, developed and put in practice. This publication is a testimony that ideas do lead to concrete actions. Yvonne Jahns together with Heidrun Alex, Constanze Kreis, Stefanie Syburra, Jacqueline Eichler and Kristina Knull-Schlomann, in cooperation with Joan Mitchell of OCLC and Patrice Landry from the Swiss National Library took up Elisabeth Niggemann's pledge with determination and were able in a very short time to organize the Symposium and to publish this volume of essays. To get 50 busy librarians to contribute essays in such a short time is an indication of their hard work to get this done and shows the esteem and friendship colleagues around the world feel for Magda. Some of the essays in this publication were presented at the International Symposium held on April 10th 2008.

Content

Subject indexing - Subject authority data - Terminology Guido Bee: Zielstrebigkeit und Pragmatismus - Magda Heiner-Freilings Impulse für die verbale Inhaltserschließung - Marcia Zeng, Wei Fan: SKOS and Its Application in Transferring Traditional Thesauri into Networked Knowledge Organization Systems - Yvonne Jahns: Funktionelle Anforderungen an Normdaten für Themen von Werken - Edward 0' Neill: FAST - A New Approach to Controlled Subject Access - Pia Leth, Ingrid Berg: Subject Indexing in Sweden - Federica Paradisi: Analisi a faccette e categorie semantiche per i termini giuridici nel Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario - Sohair Wastawy, Iman Khiry: The Development of Name and Subject Authority (Bibalex) at the Library of Alexandria - Holger Flachmann: 18 Jahre RSWK und SWD an der Universitätsund Landesbibliothek Münster - Margit Sandner: Entwicklung der SWD-Arbeit in Österreich - Ellen Kipple: Die Clearingstelle für Öffentliche Bibliotheken an der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek - Sybille Jungk: Die Erschließung der Belletristik und Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Sachkatalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Leipzig - Axel Ermert: Regelwerke, Klassifikation und Terminologie
Subject access - Multilingual access Winfried Gödert: Ontological Spine, Localization and Multilingual Access - Lars G. Svensson: Unified Access - A Semantic Web Based Model for Multilingual Navigation in Heterogeneous Data Sources - Patrice Landry: The Evolution of Subject Heading Languages in Europe and their Impact on Subject Access Interoperability - Gerhard Riesthuis: Subject Searching in Merged Catalogues - Jessica Hubrich, Tina Mengel, Katrin Müller, Jan-Helge Jacobs: Improving Subject Access in Global Information Spaces - Christel Hengel: The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) - la C. Mcllwaine: Tongues of Men - Communication in an Electronic Age - Marie Balikova: Looking for the Best Way of Subject Access - Britta Woldering: Europeana - Mehrsprachiger Zugang zu Europas digitalem Kulturerbe - Ute Scharmann: 1001 Buchstabe oder Warum öffentliche Bibliotheken fremdsprachige Kinderliteratur bereithalten sollten Librarianship - Micellaneous Heidrun Wiesenmüller: Sacherschließung im Bachelorstudiengang Bibliotheks- und Informationsmanagement an der Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart - Dorothy McGarry: Magda Heiner-Freiling and Her Work in the IFLA Section on Classification and Indexing - Robert Zepf: Pour les generations présentes et future - For the Benefit of Present and Future Generations Heidrun Alex: Personalbibliografie Magda Heiner-Freiling