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-were apparently widely used, particularly in Belgium but
also in other countries. Various government departments in
Belgium, and someone as remote as Pierre Nenkoff in Bulgaria,
bought most of their bibliographical supplies through the
OIB. 68 As a commercial enterprise one may suppose that it was
not particularly successful. Its commercial activities were incidental
to and extensions of its own requirements. The cost
of cards and furniture seems not to have changed from 1897
to 1907. 69
Examples of the various kinds of cards, divisionary cards
with or without printed headings and of different colours,
white card-stock of different weights for the bulk of the repertories,
furniture with or without rods consisting of banks of
2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 36 and 72 drawers were deposited with Carl
Junker at the Austrian Secretariat in Vienna, and at the Offices
of the Bibliographical Bureau of Paris. 70 This material was
also exhibited at the international Expositions in which the
IIB-OIB took part. As the OIB developed other kinds of repertories,
such as its repertory of dossiers and of photographs,
and continued to encourage others to follow its methods and do
likewise, it became ever more important that it ensure the
availability of appropriate equipment and materials.
FOOTNOTES
1. Henri La Fontaine and Paul Otlet, «Creation d'un Repertoire Bibliographique
Universel, note preliminaire», IBB Bulletin, I (1805—6), 16—17.
17.
2. Communications diverses: A — application de la Classification Decimale»,
IBB Bulletin, I (1895—6), 45—47; «L'Institut International de Bibliographie:
premiers resultats», IIB Bulletin, I (|1895—6), 55—57. Each
of these bibliographies is described in detail in «Analyses et compterendus»,
IIB Bulletin, I (1895—6), 146—1150.
3. «Notes et Documents: The analytical card cataloque of current zoological
literature*, IIB Bulletin, I (1895—6), 124—6.
4. «L'Institut International de Bibliographie: Les trois derniers mois», IIB
Bulletin, I (1895—6), 162.
5. «Compte-rendu sommaire des deliberations: Conference Bibliographique
Internationale, deuxieme session, Bruxelles, 1897», IIB Bulletin, II (1897),
225.
6. «Collection des contributions imprimees au Repertoire Bibliographique
Universel—Bibliographia Universalis», IIB Bulletin, IV (11899), 178—
84.
7. Charles Sury, Bibliographie feminine beige. Essai de catalogue des ouvrages
publies par les femmes beiges de 1830 a 1897 (Contribution No. 24,
Bibliographia Universalis; Bruxelles: Gh.Bulens, 1898).
8. Menryk Arctowski, Mate/yaly do Bibliografii prac naukowych Polskich
... (Materiaux pour servir a la bibliographie des travaux scientifiques
polonais, Index des memoires publies dans les [ 14 premiers volumes des
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