Celebrating the Institutional Century of the UIA (1907-2007):
senility, immortality or reincarnation ?

[NB: Although the UIA has previously chosen to celebrate its 60th anniversary, and others, in relation to its formal creation under that name in 1910, nevertheless it profiles itself as having been founded in 1907 by a group of international associations as the Central Office of International Associations -- making 2007 its centenary year]

• main website
• online databases hosted

• Profile
• Early history
• Wikipedia entries:
  • Union of International Associations
  • Paul Otlet (co-founder of UIA)
  • Henri La Fontaine (co-founder of UIA)

List of all UIA publications / UIA Document Archive

Research undertaken, partially in association with the Union of International Associations, as transferred to the website Laetus in Praesens (from 2000)

• Documents about the Union of International Associations [collection]
• Historical Misrepresentation of a "Union of International Associations"?
• Emergence of a Union of Imaginative Associations: engendered by a Union of Intelligible Associations from a Union of International Associations
• Three-stage Emergence of a Union of Imaginative Associations: reclaiming the heritage of misappropriated collective endeavour
• Reclaiming the Heritage of Misappropriated Collective Endeavour: the case of the Union of Intelligible Associations
• Psychosocial Energy from Polarization -- within a Cyclic Pattern of Enantiodromia

• A Glance at Sixty Years  of Activity (1910-1970) of the Union of International Associations, by G P Speeckaert, SG 1950-1970 [E, D, F, G, S]
• Future Prospects for the UAI, by Robert Fenaux, SG 1970-1985 [E, D, F, G]
• The Place of the Union of International Associations in the Study of International Relations, by F A Casadio, President [E, F]
• Visualization of the International Organization Network - the UIA as an international data bank, by Anthony Judge [E, D, F, G, S]

Detailed historical studies, by W Boyd Rayward (and others), of the complex of institutions and initiatives in which the UIA was embedded until 1940:

• International Organizations and Global Civil Society: histories of the Union of International Associations (Bloomsbury, 2019)
• The Universe of Information -- the work of Paul Otlet for documentation and international organisation. Moscow, FID, 1975 [PDF image file; TXT file]
• The Union of International Associations until 1914. Chapter 8 of The Universe of Information. [PDF text file; PDF image file]
• The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography / International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID). International Forum on Information and Documentation, 1997, vol. 22, no 2, pp. 3-15
• Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45 (1994): pp. 235-250

Other resources on Paul Otlet and his work:

• Michael Buckland. Paul Otlet, Pioneer of Information Management [text]
• Françoise Levie and Benoît Peeters. The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World / L'homme qui voulait classer le monde. Bruxelles, Sofidoc, 2002, 60min film, English and French versions [documentary details]
• Jean-Max Noyer et Alexandre Serres. De Paul Otlet à l'Internet en passant par Hypertexte, 1997 [text]

Download sections of the classic work by Paul Otlet:

• Monde: Essai d'universalisme connaissance du monde, sentiment du monde, action organisée et plan du monde. Bruxelles, Editiones Mundaneum, 1935 [via table of contents]

Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (selected press releases in PDF format):

• Sustainable Strategies vs Cycles of Vicious Problems (Sept 1995)|
• Sustainable Development of the Individual? (Jan 1995)|
• A la chasse de cycles vicieux de problemes (1994)|
• Mapping Pandora's Heritage (1988)|