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abundance and copiousness, quality and versatility will necessitate systematic,
purposeful DIRECTION of literature. It will refer to the knowledge
of the crucial points, but above all is created upon the deficiencies of
literature and points to the necessity of a certain treatment of the themes.
The direction of literature will also be critical, it will expose defects
and deficiencies concretely and maintain already known recognitions
and experiences. We can only speak of progress if the new, the recently
achieved, is utilized in the new following literature. We would be far
more advanced and well-founded in the science of physical education,
if the newly won recognitions and the acquired experiences were generally
known, or else, the new literature would be based on it.
Modern bibliography and documentation can no longer be the
task of a single man, of one responsible quater. It requires a close collaboration
of all bibliographers and documentarians, and an exchange
of all centres. Furthermore, only an international documentation, which
includes all nations and peoples, brings intrinsic progress. For this reason,
the problem of the language becomes increasingly acute. We need
technical interpreters, who besides possessing a perfect knowledge of
the language, are acquainted with the theory of physical education.
For the further development a plain terminology is necessary, which is
acknowledged and already used on the international scale. We need an
international literature as well,so that every new publication can quickly
and properly be arranged in the whole of the literary output.
A Bureau of Information and Documentation in the I.C.S.P.E.,
International Council of Sport and Physical Education was founded
in 1960 in Rome, in recognition of the importance of bibliogrophy and
documentation for the further development of physical education. The
bureau has taken over the task of intensifying information and documentation
on international level, and to organize and document. As
early as in 1959 an appeal for collecting bibliographies and documentations
emanated from the University of Graz, in the First International
Assembly at Schielleiten by Graz the fundamentals of modern bibliography
and documentation were discussed, the foundation-stone laid
for further development. The second meeting took place in Paris in
1960. This Third International Assembly, which was organized in Leipzig
in Oct. 1962, brought an immense progress. The statement of the
situation of that time, which was given by the representatives of the
individual countries, was pleasing: In some countries there are already
centres of bibliography and documentation with their own documentary
publications in existence. Several language centres are already able to
point to a cooperation transcedinging over national boundaries.
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