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My story starts in 1927 when, at a meeting with Dr S. C. Bradford, Keeper of the Science Museum Library, and others, Professor A. F. C. Pollard propounded his ideas for this country participating in a network of national societies, which would be affiliated to a central controlling body, in order to secure international unity in bibliographical procedure and classification—ideas Pollard had nurtured for nearly twenty years as a result of joining the Institut International de Bibliographic in 1908. Before 1927 ended the British Society for International Bibliography (BSIB) was formed and named as the British Section of the Institut International de Bibliographic, and also the International Bibliographic Centre for Pure and Applied Science. Thus, at the very beginning of its existence, BSIB was committed to the Universal Decimal Classification, developed by the IIB from the Decimal Classification of Melvil Dewey and sometimes called the Brussels Expansion.