The New York Times featured a story today about Paul Otlet, a school librarian in Belgium during the early 1900’s who was planning to create a master bibliography of all the world’s published knowledge. (!!!!) The project is now being recognized as one of the earliest prototypes for the Internet, and is honored/archived at the Mundaneum in Mons. Read More Here.

Needless to say, I’m completely smitten with this very dead man and would like to nominate him as Librarian Hero of the year.