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1° CONGRESSO MONDIALE DELLE BIBLIOTECHE E DI BIBLIOGRAFIA
ROMA—VENEZIA 1929.
»THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY AND
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COMMITTEE»
By
ISAK COLLIJN, Stockholm
Chairman of the Committee
THE PASSING of the Edinburgh Resolution ön Sept. 30, 1927,
at the Congress held in connection with the 50th anniversary of the
British Library Association, at Scotland’s beautiful capital, Sept. 28—
Oct. 1, was the realization of a long cherished desire within the library world.
As is well known, great animation manifested itself within the sphere
of intellectual collaboration after the World’s War, a collaboration, in which
the Commission de Coopération Intellectuelle at Geneva and the
Commission’s executive organ, the Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle
at Paris, take the lead. Bibliographical questions have proved themselves
to be of special importance to intellectual collaboration and consequently
even libraries and those in charge thereof have come to occupy
conspi-cuous positions in the new movement. The Commission at Geneva has, as
a matter of fact, instituted a sub-commission for bibliography, and a special
international enquiry office was created 1928, at the Institut in Paris, which
is intended to serve as the connecting link between similar offices in other
countries. Moreover certain library experts, such as the chief s of some of
the more important libraries of Europé and America, have been invited to
sittings at the Institute, to discuss international questions connected with
library work. Such meetings took place in Jan. 1928 and in Feb. 1929.
As a result thereof, the interest for a Union between librarians of
the various countries has been roused and, by reason of the international
library congresses, which, owing to certain circumstances, have followed closely
upon each other the last few years, still further stimulated. In June 1926,
5 — 29299. Nord. tidskr. tör bok- och biblioteksväsen iQ2g.
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