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| International organisation and dissemination of knowledge: selected essays of Paul Otlet P Otlet, WB Rayward FID; 684, 1990 | 210 | 1990 |
| The history and historiography of information science: some reflections WB Rayward Information processing & management 32 (1), 3-17, 1996 | 190 | 1996 |
| Electronic information and the functional integration of libraries, museums, and archives WB Rayward Clarendon Press, 1998 | 146 | 1998 |
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| HG Wells's idea of a World Brain: A critical reassessment WB Rayward Journal of the American Society for information science 50 (7), 557-573, 1999 | 122 | 1999 |
| Museum informatics PF Marty, WB Rayward, MB Twidale Annual review of information science and technology 37 (1), 259-294, 2003 | 102 | 2003 |
| From docent to cyberdocent: education and guidancein the virtual museum WB Rayward, MB Twidale Archives and Museum Informatics 13, 23-53, 1999 | 92 | 1999 |
| Library and information sciences: Disciplinary differentiation, competition, and convergence WB Rayward | 81 | 1983 |
| European modernism and the information society: Informing the present, understanding the past WB Rayward Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 | 68 | 2008 |
| Library and information science: An historical perspective WB Rayward Journal of Library History, 120-136, 1985 | 60 | 1985 |
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| Some schemes for restructuring and mobilising information in documents: a historical perspective WB Rayward Information Processing & Management 30 (2), 163-175, 1994 | 50 | 1994 |
| Information revolutions, the information society, and the future of the history of information science WB Rayward library trends 62 (3), 681-713, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
| The international exposition and the world documentation congress, Paris 1937 WB Rayward The Library Quarterly 53 (3), 254-268, 1983 | 41 | 1983 |
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