A meeting was held on April 25, 1935, in a conference room of the Social Science Research Council, New York City, where the participants decided now was the time to begin publication of "an annual selected and critical bibliography of Latin American research" (Hanke, 1980). Represented at the meeting were nine major universities, the Library of Congress, the American Geographical Society and the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, political science, history, and literature. In 1936, Volume 1 of the Handbook of Latin American Studies was issued.