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 n8 CO-OPERATION AMONG sometimes by the borrowing library, sometimes partly by the one and partly by the other, some- times partly by these or one of these and partly by the lending library or even the State ; in this respeft the rules of the different states or libraries differ. As far as possible, the figures mentioned refer to the year from ist April, 1912, to 3ist March, I. THE INFORMATION-BUREAU AND THE COMMON CATALOGUE. 1 THE earliest rules of the c Auskunftsbureau der deutschen Bibliotheken' (Berlin N W 7, Konigliche Bibliothek) are printed in the 'Jahrbuch der Deutschen Bibliotheken, herausgegeben vom Verein Deutscher Bibliothekare,' Leipzig (Otto Harrasso- witz), vol. 4, 1905, pp. 123-4. The present rules, slightly changed, are printed as a broadside and will be sent on request. The purpose of the Information-bureau is to discover if and where there is a copy of a wanted book in a German (or 1 Cf. 'Die Zentralstelle der Deutschen Bibliotheken,' von Richard Fick (Berlin): * Congres de Bruxelles 1910, Acles publics par J. Cuvelieret L. Stainier,' Bruxelles 1912, pp. 399-449, and the annual reports in the ' Jahresbericht der Koniglichen Bibliothek zu Berlin,' Berlin N W 7, Konigliche Bibliothek. Dr. Fick also read a paper on the inter-library loan service to the International Historical Congress held at Berlin in 1908 (before the present rules of the Prussian loan service were issued) ; cf. the ' Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen,' Leipzig (Otto Harrassowitz), 25, 1908, pp. 450-7.