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 to be also supported by the State, though not public libraries. Municipal and provincial libraries (not, we presume, State supported) are also admitted to the exchange on a basis of reciprocity. Defective copies, or those evidently worthless, are to be thrown away. The exchange is effected among the libraries of the respective provinces of Austria (Galicia, Moravia, &c.) through the medium of a selected library in each province. The authorities draw up a list of participating libraries in each province, and the Minister of Public Instruction puts them in order of merit. The lists of duplicates are collected by the authorities of the central library in each province, and printed or otherwise multiplied by them. The complete list being circulated, each library marks its desiderata, and the order of merit drawn up by the Minister decides as to the assignment when a book is desired by more than one library. At the end of each year the list of duplicates not disposed of is sent to the University Library at Vienna, which, after taking what its own collections require, circulates the list among the provinces generally for further exchange.

PERIODICAL LISTS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS

Austria. — Oesterreichisch - Ungarische Buchhandler- Correspondenz. Verein der osterr. ungar, Buchhandler : Vienna, [About three times monthly.]