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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE , 3
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 7
ABBREVIATIONS 7
Chapter I. THE EARLY YEARS 9
Brussels, School, Love 9
Paris, Spirtual Disillusion , 18
Brussels Again, Graduation, Marriage 20
Chapter II. FROM UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE TO SYNTHETIC
BIBLIOGRAPHY 23
Anxious Directionless, Positivism 23
The Office of Sociological Bibliography 29
Chapter III. FOUNDATION OF THE IIB 37
Hard Times 37
The Dewey Decimal Classification 40
The International Conference of Bibliography , . . . . 4 7
Work Begins 49
Chapter IV. INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS AND EARLY DE-
VELOPMENTS 58
Mainly European Bibliographers 58
French Scientists , 63
Rebuttal of Criticism, Amplification 65
The Beginnings of International Action 68
The Universal Exposition of Paris, 1900 74
Chapter V. .THE UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
The Development of the UDC 85
The Belgians and Americans in Conflict 97
Chapter VI. THE UNIVERSAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC REPERTORY
Bibliographia Universalis 112
The Compilation of the Universal Bibliographic Repertory . . 118
Distributing the RBU 122
Bibliographic Supply Agency 127
Chapter VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL
OFFICE AND INSTITUTE OF BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . 133
The OIB 133
Otlet 143
The Congress of Mons and the Mont des Arts 146
Expansion 152
International Congress of Bibliography and Documentation, 1908 158
Chapter VIII. THE UNION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIA-
TIONS 172
Central Office of International Institutions 172
The Universal Exposition of Brussels, 1910 179
The Palais Mondial 190
A Measure of Success 195
Some Evaluations .196
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