Melissa Gira Grant: Take This Book (2012)

“This is one story of the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street, as told to me by many of the librarians behind it: how the library began, what happened after the November 15 raid on Zuccotti Park, and why they’re rebuilding. It’s a story about books, danger, and freedom.

Take This Book is an extended essay — just over 10,000 words — based on the stories of the librarians and the library’s patrons. It can’t be the whole story, because it’s still happening.” (from the project’s Kickstarter page)

Publisher Glass Houses Press, New York
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.
33 pages

Kickstarter page

PDF (EPUB)

W. Boyd Rayward: The Universe of Information: the Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and international Organization (1975)

A biographical study of the life and work of Paul Otlet (1868-1944) focusing on his work for documentation and the creation of a range of international organizations.

Published for the International Federation for Documentation by the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (Viniti), Moscow, 1975
FID Publication 520
390 pages

Author’s page on Otlet

PDF, PDF, PDF (28 MB)
TXT, TXT

Paul Otlet: Traité de documentation. Le livre sur le livre. Théorie et pratique (1934) [French]

“In the 1920s and 1930s, Paul Otlet wrote about radio and television as other forms of conveying information, writing in his 1934 masterpiece Traité de documentation that ‘one after another, marvellous inventions have immensely extended the possibilities of documentation.’ He also predicted that media that would convey feel, taste and smell would also eventually be invented, and that an ideal information-conveyance system should be able to handle all of what he called ‘sense-perception documents’. The book has not been translated into English yet.” (Wikipedia)

Publisher Editiones Mundaneum, Brussels, 1934
431 pages

PDF (196M; scanned by the Ghent University)
Internet Archive (multiple formats)
Wikisource