Warden Boyd Rayward is an Australian librarian and scholar, best known as the biographer of Paul Otlet.
He later earned a master's degree and doctorate in 1973 from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.
[1] Rayward was a member of the faculty of Information Sciences at the University of New South Wales from 1993 to 1999 and was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1999.
[1] His writing includes Mundaneum: Archives of knowledge, [3] "The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography/International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID)",[4] "Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change".
[5] Rayward's influence as a professor who formulated theoretical frameworks and a broader understanding of the library as a cultural agent has been documented by Michael Buckland.