The Italian origins of FAO and Paul Otlet
| dc.audience | Audience::Audience::Science and Technology Libraries Section | |
| dc.conference.sessionType | Agricultural Libraries | |
| dc.conference.venue | Greater Columbus Convention Center (GCCC) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Guarasci, Roberto | |
| dc.contributor.author | Taverniti, Maria | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-24T08:36:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-24T08:36:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Nowadays the strategic role of international organizations, which manage and provide information systems and library services in the agricultural domain, is universally recognized. This paper focuses on the origin of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) by presenting a critical edition of the Rapport by Paul Otlet to the marquis Cappelli, président de l’Institut International d’Agricolture (Otlet, 1911) that includes original documents and outlines the first steps taken by the International Institute of Agriculture (IIA), founded in Rome in 1905. The critical edition starts from the original report, preserved in the archival funds of David Lubin, owned by FAO archive and is a collation of IIA’s memorandums preserved in the National Library of Rome, and the copious correspondence, between Otlet and Oscar Bolle, the delegate of Belgium, courteously made available by the Mundaneum. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Archives du Mundaneum, papiers personnels Paul Otlet, dossier 421, document n. 50479. CAMERANI V., La Nuova Biblioteca dell’Istituto internazionale di agricoltura, Tipografia della Camera dei Deputati, Rome,1936, p.11. DE GREGORI G., Vittorio Camerani bibliotecario e bibliografo, Olschki, Florence, 1963. Comité Permanent de l’IIA, procés verbal n. 47, 21st February, 1911. Comité Permanent de l’Institut international agriculture, Procès Verbal n. 36, 14.02.1910. FAO, David Lubin: an appreciation, <http://www.fao.org/library/about-library/general-information/david-lubin-an-appreciation/en/>. FAO: its origins, formation and evolution, 1945-1981, Rome, Fao, 1981, p.48. GUARASCI R., TAVERNITI M., Il Rapport di Paul Otlet per l’Istituto Internazionale di Agricoltura, Aracne, Rome 2013. Letter from Oscar Bolle to Paul Otlet, Archives du Mundaneum, papiers personnels Paul Otlet, Dossier 421, document n. 39914, Brussels 10 February 1911. OTLET P., La Documentation en Agriculture, Rapport sur la mission à l’institut international d’agriculture de Rome, mars 1920, Imprimerie de l’IIA, Rome, 1921, p. 66. OTLET P., Rapport presénté à monsieur le marquis Capelli, président de l'Institut International d’Agriculture, Annexe A à rapports sur la bibliographie, Stamperie dell’IIA, Rome 1911. PANTANO E., L’Istituto internazionale di agricoltura, la sua vita ed i suoi problemi, in: “Nuova Antologia”, n. 1 (May 1924), p.4-5. Progetto di Convenzione per l’erezione del palazzo destinato a sede dell’Istituto Internazionale di Agricoltura. Relazione della Commissione Reale al consiglio comunale di Roma, Roma: tipografia del Senato, 1906, p. 14. Rapport de M. Augustin Norero, Délegué de l’Equateur, sur le rapport de M. O. Bolle, Dèlegué de la Belgique et du Luxembourg, concernant les relations de l’Institut International d’Agriculture avec les Bureaux internationaux de bibliographie scientifique, IIIéme Commission, IIéme Session (Décembre 1909). Rapports de l’Institut avec les Bureaux internationaux de bibliographie scientifique, Assemblée Générale de l’Institut International d’Agriculture, IIème session, décembre 1909. RIVERA V., La FAO e la dissoluzione dell’Istituto internazionale di agricoltura di Roma. Discorso pronunciato all’Assemblea Costituente nella seduta del 12 maggio 1947, Tipografia della Camera dei Deputati, Roma 1947, p. 9. State Central Archive, Fonds Giovanni Giolitti, case 27, file 79, (1905). State Central Archive, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, case 331, cat. 10, file 2 (1905). TOSI L., Alle origini della FAO: le relazioni tra l'Istituto internazionale di agricoltura e la Società delle nazioni, Franco Angeli, Milan 1989. | |
| dc.identifier.relatedurl | http://2016.ifla.org/ | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/5870 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
| dc.rights.accessRights | open access | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject.keyword | Paul Otlet | |
| dc.subject.keyword | International Institute of Agriculture | |
| dc.subject.keyword | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | |
| dc.title | The Italian origins of FAO and Paul Otlet | en |
| dc.type | Article | |
| ifla.Unit | Section:Science and Technology Libraries Section | |
| ifla.oPubId | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1490/ |
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