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66 ISAK COLLIJN
on the invitation of the Czechoslovakian government, a library congress was
held at Prague, which may be regarded as the first real international library
congress after the World’s "War. Already in the autumn of the same year
another congress was held. In connection with the 50th anniversary of the
American Library Association, invitations were issued even to foreign
countries, asking them to represent at the jubilee and take part in meetings at
Atlantic City and Philadelphia (Oct. 1—7), which were arranged in
connection therewith. In the year 1927, it was the turn of the British Library
Association to celebrate its 5Oth anniversary and this occasioned, as already
mentioned, an invitation to foreign librarians to take part in a Congress
at Edinburgh.
It is at these congresses that the idea of an international library union
between the library associations of the various countries originated, was
discussed and decided upon. The representatives sent by the different
countries to these congresses were of ten the same persons and it was natural
that these repeated meetings and renewed discussions regarding mutual
con-cerns and interests, tended not only to the strengthening of professional
connections but led to the forming of bonds of friendship, which latter has
been of no little importance in reaching the goal. To the French belongs
the honour of having made the first proposal of an International Library
Union. Such a proposition was put forward at the Prague Congress, June
29, 1926 on behalf of the French Library Association, by its delegate, M,
Gabriel Henriot. The French proposition was discussed on various
occa-sions during the American Congress, Oct. 1926, and a resolution was moved
by Mr. Krüss - Berlin that an international library association should finally
be decided upon the next year, at the forthcoming Edinburgh Congress,
to which those library associations interested in the question should be
requested to send authorized delegates. The Resolution was accordingly
passed on Sept. 30, 1929, at Edinburgh and thus »The International Library
and Bibliographical Committee» was established. The Resolution was signed
by 21 authorized delegates from the library associations of 15 different
countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark,
France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Norway, Sweden,
Switzer-land and the United States of America. As great pillars of support, the
important American, British, French and German library associations: The
American Library Association, the British Library Association, the
Association des Bibliothécaires Francais and the Verein Deutscher Bibliothekare,
entered the Committee already at the beginning. Since the Assembly at
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