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The Institut International de Bibliographie was founded in 1895 by an international conference held in Brussels in response to the need to index the growing volume of recorded information. As the result of a thorough investigation of the problem, the logical principles of classification were developed, and it became possible to devise _a classification, known as the Universal Decimal Classification, which is sufficiently extensive and flexible to index the literature of the world.
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BRADFORD, S. International Bibliography. Nature 126, 551–552 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126551a0
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