served both as library and museum. In 1878, Moynier declared that the library should be accessible to all. In the same year he completely reorganized its collections and wrote himself by a hand a new catalog."The Heritage Collection remains to this day organized according to the classification system that he set up. Items are shelved first by source, then by subject, author and date of publication. This Classification system makes it possible to follow the spread of Red Cross action across the world and the creation of a network of National Societies first in Europe and then further afield. The largest number of items in the Heritage Collection come from Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. As well, the Collection includes publications from China, Cuba, Brazil, the United States and Mexico, and even one from a short-lived micro-nation, the Free State of Counani."As the Red Cross movement and the collections of its library expanded, the aging Moynier delegated some administrative tasks like the management of the library upon the recommendation of his nephew and future successor, Gustave Ador, to Paul Des Gouttes, a lawyer, who was appointed the secretary of the Committee in 1898. He was a nephew of Moynier's as well. Post-World War I Shortly after the end of the First World War, the ICRC moved to its new headquarters at the Promenade du Pin at the edge of the Old Town. The library was accommodated there next to a large vestibule. The responsibility for the library was now taken over by Étienne Clouzot, an archivist palaeographer, who was also a columnist for the liberal daily newspaper Journal de Genève. During WWI he had designed the classification system for the millions of index cards. In 1919 he succeeded Des Gouttes as head of the ICRC Secretariat and in that position gave the library a great boost, especially by establishing a systematic exchange of publications with the national societies of the Red Cross Movement. In June 1933, the ICRC moved its headquarters away from the Old Town and – "by a curious turn in history" – into the splendid Villa Moynier in the quarter of Sécheron. It had been built in 1848 for the banker Barthélemy Paccard and was then owned by his son-in-law Gustave Moynier, who had stayed in that office for a record-term of 47 years until his death in 1910. Situated in the middle of