Monica Westin

Librarian; Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

Monica Westin is an academic librarian with a background in web indexing and scholarly publishing. She works at the Manchester Metropolitan University Library and lectures in the MSc Information Science programme at City, University of London.

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A busy public library reading room with people using desktop computers at wooden tables, surrounded by bookshelves and lit by large windows and chandeliers.

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History of technology

Indexing the information age

Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable

Monica Westin

Person using a vintage Raytheon computer terminal with text on the screen, next to a rotary phone on a desk.

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History of technology

Ingenious librarians

A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it

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