Identity area

Reference code

WB IBRD/IDA HIST-01-08

Title

Authors' conference

Date(s)

  • 1992 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

12 audio tapes

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Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

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Scope and content

On June 2 and 3, 1992, the World Bank History Project held a conference with all the authors of essays for Volume II of The World Bank: Its First Half Century. Each author presented his draft paper and explained the approach he had taken. Not all authors participated, but at least some of the authors not present sent papers in advance. This untranscribed set of tapes records the discussion at the two day conference. Series contains reference copies producedby the Bank Archives of all of the conference tapes. As such, only six of the twelve tapes are original.

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Accruals

Accruals are not expected.

System of arrangement

Tapes are arranged chronologically.

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Conditions governing access

Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Access to Information.

Conditions governing reproduction

Records are subject to the Copyright Policy of the World Bank Group.

Language of material

  • English

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    Related units of description

    • See Records of the Office of the Historian -- Records of the World Bank History Project -- Correspondence with Volume II authors (WB IBRD/IDA HIST-01-04) and Records of the Office of the Historian -- Records of the World Bank History Project -- Volume II drafts (WB IBRD/IDA HIST-01-06).

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    Rules and/or conventions used

    Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

    3 March 2008

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