The centenary of the birth of David Lubin, American Jewish pioneer in international cooperation, was observed here today at the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization headquarters with the unveiling of a tablet commemorating his life work.
Lubin was the founding genius of the International Institute of Agriculture, which was organized in Rome in 1905. It was merged with the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization in 1946.
The Lubin centenary celebration will be followed by a meeting, stating tomorrow to discuss the future of the library of the International Institute of Agriculture here. The meeting will explore the possibility of organizing a David Lubin International Center of Agricultural Research.
The session was called by F.A.O. and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization, at presently jointly maintaining the library together with the Italian Government, which donated the building. The library contains 350,000 books and more than 5,000 collections of periodicals. The proposed David Lubin center would put the library at the disposal of research workers throughout the world.
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