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i 3 o CO-OPERATION AMONG rules have been accepted by the other German governments or library boards. 1 According to these general regulations manuscripts and printed books, as far as no special regulation forbids their loan, may be lent to State libraries or libraries under the superintendence of the State in Germany and abroad from library to library immediately, if the applicant library declares itself willing to reciprocate subject to the following conditions. The books must be sent carefully packed, and duly insured at the expense and the risk of the borrowing library. They must be kept carefully and returned equally well packed, and at least equally well insured, again at the expense and the risk of the borrowing library. If the lending library does not make special conditions, the limit for retaining printed books is six weeks, for retaining the manu- scripts three months. The place for keeping and using them is the borrowing library, but the lend- ing library may grant leave to lend printed books out of the building, the borrowing library being responsible for them. Reproduction of more than one leaf must be sanctioned by the lending library. For books damaged or lost, the borrowing library must pay what the librarian of the lending library and his authorities think fit, even if it is more than the value insured. Special facilities for instance, the lending of manuscripts out of the building may be granted by the Minister of Education. Under these regulations the following 1 The only exception is the Ducal Library at Wolfenbttttel, the special regulations of which are printed in the 'Jahrbuch/ I, 1902, pp. 131-2.