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i 3 4 CO-OPERATION AMONG number. If the frequenter desires an extension, the Jena library sends an ' Erneuerungsschein ' (renewal slip) to the Royal Library. A note to this effect is added to the card. When the fre- quenter returns the book, the date of the return also is added. Twice a week, all returned books are sent back to Berlin ('frei durch Ablosung'). A letter recording the number of parcels and books and the insured value (either 100 Mark for the parcel or the value prescribed by the lending library), and asking for returning, or cancelling the order slips (as the case may be), accompanies the books. The date of the return to Berlin is also added to the cards, which are preserved for some time. There is, of course, a day-book of the letters and parcels received and sent, and a cash- book for the fees paid and received. If the required book is not available in the Royal Library, it is asked for from other libraries in a similar way. If there is no order slip of the respective library available in Jena, the Jena library uses its own order slips ; in this case sometimes the lending library sends its order slips with the required books, and the slips must be filled in and returned imme- diately. As there is not so much intercourse with other libraries as with the Berlin library, the ex- penses for the single book are often higher, but the frequenter only pays the greater part of them, the Jena library paying the rest. If extension is asked for, it is rather common that the absence of an answer from the lending library implies that the extension is granted. It may be reckoned that the whole inter-library loan service (borrowing and