AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1971-1972. Budapest (1973)

II. Nemzetközi könyvtári élet - Gombocz István: Az IFLA Nemzetközi Kiadványcsere Bizottságának 40 éves működése - Forty Years of the IFLA Committee on the International Exchange of Publications

javaslatokat az UNESCO könyvtári közlönyében, például az UNISIST és a kiadványcsere összefüggéseire vonatkozóan. A Bizottság Bécsben különösen részletesen foglalkozott a fejlett és a fejlődő országok közötti kiadványcsere bővítésével; ezen a téren még akad bőven teendő. Végül említsük meg, hogy J. D

ARGENT elkészítette a már említett kétkötetes bibliográfiát a nemzetközi csere szakirodalmáról. A közeljövő feladata ennek a munkának a folytatása és közzététele kiadvány formájában, azzal a további javaslattal, hogy egy helyen, valószínűleg Brüsszelben, gyűjteni kellene a kiadványcseréről bárhol megjelenő publikációk adatait. Forty Years oj the I FLA Committee on the International Exchange of Publications I. GOMBOCZ The author, who was Head of the International Exchange Service of the National Széchényi Library and Chairman of the IFLA Committee on the International Exchange of Publications, died on 10th April 1973 with tragic suddenness. His last article describes the forty year history of the Committee on International Exchange. This writing —like his whole activity— expresses his belief in the great ideals of intellectual-cultural contacts between the peoples and nations of the world. He could not complete his study by writing its English resume

; it was the sad task of the editors to try to summarize its contents. * The author starts by pointing out how great attention has been paid by IFLA to the cause of the international exchange of publications. The first working group was formed in 1930 but it became consolidated only in 1933, that is why we are celebrating its 40th anniversary now. At first he surveys the events of the period 1930-1950. International exchange was discussed in details first at the Stockholm general meeting in 1930. The first sub-committee was formed then under the chairmanship of Jan EMLEE, the Director of the University Library in Pozsony (Bratislava). The "Sub-Committee on Exchange of University Theses" was more firmly established at the 1933 meeting held at Avignon, where Jan EMLER was confirmed in his post. At the 1934 Madrid general meeting, too, the focus was on the exchange of dissertations. When the Und World Congress of Librarians was held in 1935 in Madrid and Barcelona M. BEAULIEUX (France) submitted several important new proposals, including a call for government support for the central exchange centres. In 1937 in Paris and in 1938 in Brussels once more the problems of the exchange of dissertations was one of the central topics. In 1939 IFLA had a meeting in The Hague, where J. GTJINARD (France) was elected Chairman of the Sub-Committee. He came forward with important, comprehensive proposals

: the cultural organ of the League of Nations should publish the list of all the institutions participating in the exchange programme; the authority of the Sub-Committee should be extended. It was at this meeting that the point was raised in the discussion

: the Sub-Committee should not restrict itself to the questions of the exchange of dissertations and university publications but should deal with the exchange of other scientific and scholarly publications as well. New proposals were made after the war at the Oslo (1947) and London (1948) meeting by T. KLEBERG and J. GUINARD, and K. SCHWARBER respectively. The second part of the article discusses the period when A. KÉSSEN was the Chairman (1950-1958). The author states that KESSEN'S name in IFLA has become inseparable from international exchange and his account read at the 1950 London meeting was an impressive synthesis and programme. He spared no effort to collect every information relating to exchange and paid special attention to the question of foreign-language abstracts and to the exchange of the publications of the various academies, as well as promoting the exchange 104