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 128 CO-OPERATION AMONG of the Technical High School at Munich and the University Libraries of Erlangen and Wiirzburg on the other side), in Wurtemberg (since 1902 with regard to the Landesbibliothek at Stuttgart and the University Library at Tubingen), in Baden (since 1905 for the Hof- und Landesbibliothek and the Library of the Technical High School at Karlsruhe and the University Libraries at Heidel- burg and Freiburg im Breisgau), in Hesse, 1 in T'huringia where since 1904 the University Library at Jena is more closely connefted with the Grand- ducal Library at Weimar and the Ducal Library at Gotha, in Mecklenburg (since 1907 as to the Government Library at Schwerin and the Uni- versity Library at Rostock), between the Town Library of Hamburg and the Town Library of Lubeck (since 1904) and between the Town Library and the Kommerzbibliothek in Hamburg on the one hand and the University Library of Rostock on the other hand (since 1908). In Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, Hesse, Thuringia, and Mecklenburg, the University libraries are linked up with the respective State libraries. The inter-library loan service of Hamburg and Lubeck and of Hamburg and Rostock is also an inter-state service. As a rule, the frequenter of one of the connected libraries may use the books of the other or others without any expenses. What is to be paid, is paid by the library where the payment is to be made. In Mecklenburg all 1 Cf. the remarks on Darmstadt and Giessen in the introdu&ion (P- "3)-