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A project for a Central Library of the World, drawn up during the German occupation of France, with the dual objects of providing more effectively for the preservation of the documents on which human culture rests and making their utilization easier and more widespread, is of interest in relation to the programme of work now contemplated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which already includes a library organisation. Of the seven stages in which it was visualized the project would be achieved, the first, that of bringing together in France a limited number of initiators, both French and foreigners resident in France, had been realized; and a second, that of formulating a concrete project and inviting the collaboration of a number of well-known French personalities, was in progress when this pamphlet was issued by the French Association for the Study of Bibliographic Questions (7 rue des St.-Pères, Paris 7), as was the fourth stage of inviting foreign co-operation. The further stages include the formation of an international committee and, after study of the problem by that committee, an international convention to set up the appropriate organisation, appoint the members and to decide on the official language to be used.
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A Central Library of the World. Nature 160, 562–563 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160562d0
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