IFLA's First Fifty Years: a reprise

Málek Rudolf , On the origin of the international organization of librarians (IFLA): the Congress of Librarians in Prague, 1926. In: Libri 20.1970, p.222-224. - Congrès international des Bibliothécaires et des Amis du Livre tenu à Prague du 28 juin au 3 juillet 1926. Procès-verbaux et mémoires publiés par le Comité exécutif du Congrès'. Rédigé par Bohuslav Koutnic. T. 1.2. Prague 1928-1929.

Actes 1. Uppsala 1931, pp. 8-1Q

Actes 1. Uppsala 1931, pp. 13-15.- Actes 3 . Geneva 1931, p.5.

See: International Library Cooperation. In: The Library Journal 51.1927, p. 1025. - Uhlendahl Heinrich , Die internationalen Bibliothekskonferenzen in Edinburgh und Rom. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 45. 1928, S.647. - The Statutes were published in: Actes 2. Uppsala 1930, p. 35-39.

Primo Congresso Mondiale delle Biblioteche e di Bibliografia. Roma, Venezia 15-30 Giugno 1929. Vol. 1-6. Roma 1931-1933. - See: Fuchs H. und H.A. Krüss , Bericht über den Verlauf des Ersten Weltkongresses für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie in Rom-Venedig vom 15.-30. Juni 1929. In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 46. S.465-480.

Actes 7. La Haye 1935, p. 33-34.

Actes 9.1938, p.17.

Actes 11 1940, pp. 19-20

Actes 12.1947, pp. 46-48.

The Library Quarterly 18.1948, pp. 235 ss.

International Congress of Libraries and Documentation Centres, Brussels, September 11-18,1955 . Vol. 1. 2A. 2B. La Haye, M. Nijhoff , 1955. (Vol. 1. Rapports préliminaires . - Vol. 2A. Communications: Congrès Générale. Troisième Congrès international des bibliothèques. - Vol. 2B. Communications: Quatrième Congrès international des bibliothèques musicales. Vingtdeuxième conférence internationale de documentation. - See e.g. Hofmann Gustav , Der internationale Kongress der Bibliotheken und Dokumentationsstellen in Brüssel vom 8.-18. September 1955 . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 3.1956, S.48-51.

12. Ranganathan S. R. , IFLA - what it should be and do. In: Libri 5.1954, p.182-189.

Actes 23.1959, p.14.

Libri 12.1962, pp. 61-76. - International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, 1961 . Report. Edited by A. H. Chaplin and Dorothy Anderson.) London 1963.293 pp.

Actes 27.1963, pp. 20, 22-23, 31-32.- See also: IFLA 1958-1963. Final report. In: Libri 13.1964,p. 274

IFLA Repertoire, 7th. Ed., 1963, with supplement: 1964/65. - The Statutes were published also in: Actes 29. 1965. Pp. 56-59.

Actes 32.1967, p.28.

Actes 33.1968, pp. 28-29.

IFLA Annual 1969. Copenhagen 1970, p. 35.

IFLA Annual 1969, op.cit pp. 18-19; p.100.

Liebaers' Presidential Address, in: IFLA Annual 1970, op.cit pp.18-35.

See H. Liebaers , The librarian as the artisan of reading. In: UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries 26.1972, pp. 122-l28. - Mohrhardt F. E. (ed.), Reading in a Changing World. Papers presented at the 38th Session of the IFLA General Council , Budapest, 1972. ( IFLA Publications 5.) 1976. - Liebaers H. and D. Anderson , IFLA's contribution to National Library Associations in Developing Countries. In: Journal of Library History 7.1972, pp. 293-300.- For the actual results of IBY, of UBC and for other achievements and projects of IFLA's major programme of action, see Liebaers' fundamentally important Presidential Address in Grenoble: IFLA Annual 1973 , pp. 24-35.

See the respective IFLA Annuals and the last IFLA progress reports since 1971/1972, most carefully edited by the Secretary General Margreet Wijnstroom and offering, in a concentrated form, comprehensive surveys of IFLA's actual evolution, various activities, offices, publications, and financial resources.