IT ALL STARTED with the American Library Association (ALA) which
wanted to celebrate its centenary in 1976 at its headquarters in
Chicago. With five American librarians and non-librarians I was
invited to give a centennial paper. I declined the flattering offer
because I had left the profession and had no time to do any
research. I added innocently, however, that I would be delighted to
speak out of personal experience, for instance on the impor tance
of American librarianship in my professional life. This pro posal
was accepted; I delivered the lecture and my text was printed in
Libraries and the Life cif the Mind. Before I had read my paper in
Chicago I received a request from the International Federation of
Library Associations (IFLA) to contribute with Recollections of a
President to the fiftieth anniver sary volume of IFLA (1927-1977).
For reasons with which I agreed IFLA did not publish my paper in
full, such as it is given here as chapter 10. I am confident that
no one will compare the two versions in order to try to find out
\\That has been left out in the earlier printing. Two other papers
have appeared in German Festschrifts, one for Kurt Koster from
Frankfurt-aiM (chapter 7) and one for Gerhard Liebers from Munster
(chapter 5) the former being focussed to accord with the interest
of the recipient on medieval Dutch manuscripts, the latter, for
similar reasons, on library buildings."
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