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»THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COMMITTEE» 67
Edinburgh the folio wing additional nations have j oined the newly formed
Union and accepted the Edinburgh Resolution: Esthonia, Finland, Japan,
Latvia, Mexico and Poland. Negotiations are being carried ön with countries
not yet associated and, in those lands, where library associations do not yet
exist, endeavours are being made to create such.
The object of the Committee is given in § 2 of the Resolution and is
as follows: »The duties of the Committee shall be to select the time and
place for international library congresses and, with the co-operation of local
committees, to prepare programs for such Conferences, and to make
investiga-tions and recommendations concerning international relations between libraries,
organizations of libraries and bibliographers, and other agencies.
In a special paragraph it was settled that international congresses should
be held at least every fi ve years, but, that the first congress summoned by
the newly created Union should take place in the year 1929 or 1930. It
was furthermore decided that the Executive Committee should consist of
the delegates from America, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain,
Italy and Sweden (chairman). The Secretary, to be chosen later, should not
necessarily belong to any national library association. It furthermore stat ed
that the first meeting in plenum should take place within a year of the
signing of the Resolution, namely before Sept. 30, 1928.
In accordance therefore, the delegates appointed by the various library
associations were called to a meeting at Rome, March 31, 1928 and thirteen
of the fifteen nations having then signed the Edinburgh Resolution were
repre-sented. At this meeting, held under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of
Public Instruction and in the presence of His Excellency, Prof. Bodrero,
under-secretary of State and Signor Sal vagnini, the general director for Academies
and Libraries, it vas decided that the next Library Congress should be held
the following year, at Rome.
The Italian government kindly offered to take upon itself the duties
of host for this congress and appointed a local committee with Senator
Count Cippico as chairman. Professor Fago, one of the two vice-presidents
of the International Library and Bibliographical Committee, was chosen as
General-Secretary. I need not enter into further details concerning the
Congress, but will give here only a few statements with regard to the aims and
early plans of the newly formed Library Union.
These in reality coincide with the program agreed upon for the
Congress, and with the duties prescribed for the sixteen different sections, each
corresponding to a sub-commission of the great Union.
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