Professor Eva Hemmungs Wirtén named the 2015-16 Paul Otlet Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Professor of Mediated Culture at Culture and Society, Linköping University, has been awarded the 2015-16 Paul Otlet Fellowship in the History of Information Science at The Beckman Centre, the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), Philadelphia.She receives the fellowship - a donation from Eugene Garfield - for the project “Big Bibliography: Science Under the Weight of Information Overload.” Eva Hemmungs Wirtén will be in residence for three months in the summer of 2016 to consult the CHF archives and resources. “Big Bibliography” looks at the historical development of the