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n6 CO-OPERATION AMONG trained and paid in the same way and may be transferred from one of these libraries to another. Their author-catalogues are arranged subject to the same rules, the titles of their accessions (as far as published in 1892 or later) are printed for their catalogues weekly in one publication (the 'Berliner Titeldrucke'), and a central catalogue is in course of compilation which, when finished, will record all their books and copies (orientalia, university and school publications, 1 maps, juvenile literature, reprints without title-page, etc., ex- cepted). As to the purchasing of foreign litera- ture, some of the University Libraries are expected to specialise, so that each of these col- lections is a complement to the others in this respe6t : Bonn especially buys Romance and Dutch books, Gottingen English and American works, Kiel Scandinavian publications, and Breslau Scla- vonian literature ; Greifswald has a special Low German department, whereas the Royal Library provides books of all languages in a suitable selection. The general plan for book information and book loans is as follows : If the research student, or even the general reader, wants a book, no copy of which belongs to the library he frequents, 2 he applies to the State or University library of his district (state or province), and this, as a rule, by the help of his 1 Annual lists of these are printed and published by a special department of the Royal Library. 2 Not a copy of which belongs to the library, but is lent to another person or institution.