Join guest speaker Emeritus Professor W Boyd Rayward at the inaugural lecture to celebrate the legacy of two significant bequestors to Monash University. Emeritus Professor Boyd Rayward is a prominent researcher in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.

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About the speaker

Emeritus Professor W Boyd Rayward will discuss why recent changes in information infrastructure are, in fact, not new. He will explain two historical moments that mark a turning point in the evolution of information management, including why some of these earlier innovations failed before they could  be realised.

Emeritus Professor Rayward's recent studies focus on hypertext and the beginnings of modern information science; utopian schemes of knowledge organisation including HG Wells' idea of a 'world brain'; and the implications of digitisation and networking for libraries and museums.

Photo: (from left) Dr Brian McMullin, Emeritus Professor W. Boyd Rayward,
Professor Sue McKemmish - Associate Dean Research,
Professor Ron Weber - Dean of the Faculty of IT.