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(g] The organization of a system for the publication of critical edi- 

 tions of the principal American works relating to matters of special 

 interest to the continent; 



(h) The organization of a library information service, to the end 

 that investigators may obtain therefrom information as to everything 

 published in America, whether in the form of a book or of an article 

 appearing in a periodical, relating to the subject of their investiga- 

 tions; 



(i) The development of a system for the publication of reproductions 

 of all important works of or relating to America that have become 

 exhausted, whether fac simile or not, but containing critical annota- 

 tions; 



(j) The organization of a system for the interchange of library shelf 

 markings, whether of official or private libraries, prepared in accord- 

 ance with a uniform plan; 



(k) The organization of a system for the publication of all shelf 

 marks that have appeared in periodicals and reviews, whether old or 

 new, of or relating to America; 



(/) The organization of a system for the publication of the shelf marks 

 of all those documents relating to America that are contained in Ameri- 

 can and European archives. 



ARTICLE III. In order to achieve its ends, the Pan American Library 

 Union shall constitute a confederation of all the libraries of the continent 

 and shall centralize all the suggestions and requests of those libraries re- 

 specting the matters specified in the preceding article, and especially as 

 to matters covered by paragraph (a). Thus any student who may need a 

 work that can not be found in his local library but which may be in any 

 other library on the continent may make a call for it at his own library, 

 which will transmit the call to the Union at Washington and the latter will 

 institute a direct search, from library to library, for the desired book. When 

 received by the library to which such call is first made, the work will be 

 promptly supplied to the person making the call for such time and under 

 such conditions as shall be determined, the library receiving the same to 

 be responsible for its direct return later to the library supplying it. In 

 this way the investigator in the Americas, without changing his residence, 

 can avail himself of the millions of books located in all the libraries on 

 the continent. 



ARTICLE IV. If the work supplied as a result of such investigation should 

 be submitted by its author to the Pan American Library Union with a 

 favorable report from the local library, it could be made the object of a 

 recommendation for its publication and circulation among all the libraries 

 of the continent in order that it might be placed within the reach of all 

 associations or private persons. 



ARTICLE V. The Pan American Library Union shall be administered by 

 a Council composed of delegates elected by a majority vote by each country 

 and by the national libraries and university libraries of those countries. 

 The delegates shall hold office for three years and may be reelected 

 indefinitely. The Council shall meet annually in the city designated at 



