the large Parc Moynier on the shores of Lake Geneva, the Villa had housed the League of Nations in 1926. The city of Geneva then acquired it and rented it out to the ICRC. A room on the ground floor was reserved for the library next to the museum room and the meeting hall. However, this "eccentric" location and a lack of staff assigned to it made the library effectively dormant. Post-World War II In 1946 the ICRC moved its headquarters from the Villa Moynier to the former Carlton Hotel in the quarter of Pregny. The neoclassical building on a hill above the Palace of Nations was provided to the organisation by the Canton of Geneva through a long-term lease. The library was assigned a "modest" place. Two years later, in 1948, the new collection, which had been added to the Heritage Collection since 1919, was completely reorganised and catalogued. However, it was only a quarter of a century later, in 1972, that the governing body of the ICRC assigned a more prominent room to the library. At the same time, it raised its status and confirmed the mandate to not only preserve Red Cross publications, but also to comprehensively acquire IHL publications. Ten years later, a thesaurus-based reference system was introduced which allowed users easier access to documents. In 1987, the library moved into the newly constructed building no. 3 (level −2) next to the Carlton. Two years later, a computerised catalogue system was established. Post-1990 The first computer with internet access was introduced in the reading hall in 1995. Five years later, the library catalogue became accessible through the intranet. Since 2010, the ICRC Library, public archives and audiovisual archives have become part of the same unit, under the umbrella of the ICRC Archives and Information Management service. This administrative reform is part of the efforts to cope with the growing complexity of big data and at the same time the fragmentation of information due to the rapid evolution of digital technologies. Collections and Holdings The heritage collection of the ancien fonds (Signature: AF) comprises almost 4,000 books, brochures, reports, manuals and press cuttings from over forty countries. Some members of the ICRC, first and foremost Gustave Moynier, contributed books from their private holdings to the library. The collection of Paul Des Gouttes was donated after his death in 1943 by his widow, including a copy of Un