 The Congress, held at the Trocadéro under "the auspices" of the Institute Internationale de Bibliographie, was "the apotheosis" of a general movement in the 1930s towards the classification of the growing mass of information and the improvement of access to that information.For the first time in the history of information science, technological means were beginning to catch up with theoretical ends, and the discussions at the conference reflected that fact.Its participation in the Congress was one of the first projects of the American Documentation Institute (ADI).