Helene Lieser · 1934
Helene Lieser’s 1934 review of A. C. v. Breycha-Vauthier’s Das Arbeitsmaterial des Völkerbundes. Führer durch seine Veröffentlichungen recommends the guide as a means of opening the League of Nations’ extensive, varied publications to a broader readership. She grounds its authority in the Austrian author’s position as head of the League library’s legal and political service, then turns from professional competence to practical usefulness:
Viele Wissenschaftler und auch praktisch Tätige werden dem Verfasser für die Erleichterung ihrer Arbeiten dankbar sein, die durch die geschickte Anordnung des Stoffes und ein ausführliches Sachregister erreicht wird.
English translation: Many scholars and practitioners will be grateful to the author for making their work easier through the skillful arrangement of the material and a detailed subject index.
The brief review’s evaluative move is to connect institutional expertise with usable organization. Lieser identifies arrangement and indexing as the guide’s concrete merits: they make a rich documentary resource more accessible to research and practice. Her endorsement concerns access to the League’s published work, without developing an assessment of its policies.
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