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GERMAN LIBRARIES. 119 foreign) library. 1 Anyone seeking such informa- tion must pay 10 Pfennige for each book he requires (also postage, if outside Germany), 2 vouch that there is no copy of these books in the State or University library of his district, 3 give the title as correctly as possible, and name the place where the book is referred to. He may be asked if the enquiry is for the purpose of research. A list of the libraries supporting the bureau is printed in the 'Jahrbuch,' 9, 1911, pp. 154-8. It comprises: (i) The Royal Library at Berlin and the 10 Prussian University Libraries ; (2) 57 Berlin libraries (most of them only avail- able for Berlin readers) ; (3) 1 1 Prussian State Archives; (4) 1 17 Prussian grammar schools; (5) 24 libraries of societies not in Berlin; (6) 121 other German libraries (among them the great State, University and Municipal libraries, as far as not enumerated under (i) and (2)) ; (7) about 40 private libraries. A number of libraries in Austria- Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the Royal Library at Copen- hagen are supporting the bureau too. The Information-bureau is closely connected with the Prussian Central Catalogue. They have the same office and in part the same officials ; but 1 It does not set itself to discover which books deal with a given subject, nor where there are further copies of a given book. 2 As the Prussian State pays for the bureau, the bureau gives these fees to the Prussian Treasury (first calculated to yield 150 Mark; in 1912-13, in fad:, about 1,400 Mark). 3 The most common way is to add the order slip with the negative answer of this library.