György Rózsa: Information: from claims to needs (Joint edition published by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Kultura Hungarian Foreign Trading Company. Budapest, 1988)
II. International relations in the field of scientific information
96 1973, then published in microcard form with the title United Nations Documents on the Situation in the Middle East , 1947-1973 No. 7, 7 microcards). Beside the above publications, the Library has largely contributed to the publication of two basic volumes on the documentation of international organizations: Sources, Organization, Utilization of International Documentation. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Documentation of the United Nations and Other Intergovernmental Organizations held in Geneva, 21-23 August 1972. The Hague, 1974, 586 pages, FID Publ. 506., and Documents of International Organizations: a Bibliographic Handbook covering the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations. Compiled and edited by Th. Dimitrov. London, 1973, International University Publisher, 301 pages. In fact, these two volumes were the result of many years'joint efforts by several professional organizations and the Geneva Library in launching training programmes and in developing the appropriate methods in handling documentation of international organizations. As Professor F. Casadio the Rapporteur general of the Geneva Symposium pointed out, summarizing the recommendations of the symposium, both international organizations and governments must pay more attention to the documentation of international organizations if they want this documentation to be usable. The library has organized in co-operation with UNITAR and other bodies seminars, training courses, etc., which were attended by about 150 diplomats, documentalists and government officials from all over the world. In addition, the library staff members have participated in several seminars and colloquia to promote international co-operation in documentation distribution and treatment. About Historical Collections and League of Nations Archives It would be worth while to publish a special study on the historical collections and League of Nations Archives. The archives were transferred to the library in 1958, but only since 1965 was it possible to convert the files of the Central Registry and the documents and manuscripts of the League of Nations into a real archive collection when the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace offered a grant for this purpose. The rule of access to League of Nations Archives has been signed by the Secretary -General of the United Nations, U Thant, at the end of 1969 (26 December, ST/SGB/ /135). The major parts of the historical collections are the following: Archives de la SdN 1919-1947, Archives du Bureau International de la Paix 1889-1950, Fonds Suttner-Fried 1885-1921, Fonds divers 1908-1952. The following information tools were established to facilitate research in the historical collections: Guide to the Archives of the League of Nations (also in a French version) and the Archives de la Société des Nations, Réportaire général 1919-1946, Vols 1-3. By a special budget allocation it was possible to organize a laboratory of de-acidification for the conservation of historical collections documents. The conservation
