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In 1871, the ICRC moved into an apartment of a building at Rue de l'Athénée No. 3, just across the street from
Moynier's splendid town residence in Rue de l'Athénée No. 8. While it was a very representative address, the office spaces were still rather modest with just three rooms. One of them served
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collapsed, he declared bankruptcy in 1867 and was pushed out of the ICRC by its president
Moynier in the following year. It may be assumed that Dunant's collection of ICRC-related publications was transferred to Moynier's splendid city residence in Rue de l'Athénée No. 8, since he was clearly the
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However, it was only a quarter of a century later, in 1972, that the governing body of the ICRC assigned a more prominent room to the library. At the same time, it raised its status and confirmed the mandate to not only preserve Red Cross publications, but also to comprehensively acquire IHL
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system makes it possible to follow the spread of Red Cross action across the world and the creation of a network of
National Societies first in Europe and then further afield. The largest number of items in the Heritage Collection come from
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since it was founded; all ICRC publications; rare documents published in the period between the founding of ICRC and the end of the First World War and charting the influence of Dunant's ideas; and a unique collection of legislation and
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Some members of the ICRC, first and foremost
Gustave Moynier, contributed books from their private holdings to the library. The collection of Paul Des Gouttes was donated after his death in 1943 by his widow, including a copy of
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have become part of the same unit, under the umbrella of the ICRC Archives and
Information Management service. This administrative reform is part of the efforts to cope with the growing complexity of
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The
Heritage Collection remains to this day organized according to the classification system that he set up. Items are shelved first by source, then by subject, author and date of publication. This
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in 1926. The city of Geneva then acquired it and rented it out to the ICRC. A room on the ground floor was reserved for the library next to the museum room and the meeting hall. However, this "
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As the Red Cross movement and the collections of its library expanded, the aging
Moynier delegated some administrative tasks like the management of the library upon the recommendation of his
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we may suppose that it was born at the same time as the organization, initially perhaps simply taking the form of a collection of works belonging to the
Committee’s founders.
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In 1987, the library moved into the newly constructed building no. 3 (level −2) next to the
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Gustave Moynier, who had stayed in that office for a record-term of 47 years until his death in 1910. Situated in the middle of the large Parc Moynier on the shores of
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In 1878, Moynier declared that the library should be accessible to all. In the same year he completely reorganized its collections and wrote himself by a hand a new
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was introduced in the reading hall in 1995. Five years later, the library catalogue became accessible through the
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to work for the understanding and dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law applicable in
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As of early 2020, the ICRC library counted some 41,000 references in its catalogue. They include:
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library – became Dunant's private residence, the third floor of his family's "Maison
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During WWI he had designed the classification system for the millions of
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in the quarter of Sécheron. It had been built in 1848 for the banker
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Moynier, Gustave (1878). "La bibliothèque du Comité international".
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of information due to the rapid evolution of digital technologies.
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Raboud, Ismaël; Niederhauser, Matthieu; Mohr, Charlotte (2018).
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International Geneva : 100 years of architecture
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