Page:The Library, volume 5, series 3.djvu/143

GERMAN LIBRARIES. 131 British libraries are to my knowledge in connection with German libraries : Cambridge : Emmanuel College, Gonville and Caius College, Magdalene College, the University Library ; Dublin : Trinity College ; Durham : the University Library ; Edin- burgh : the University Library ; Glasgow : the University Library ; London : the Jews' College, India Office, Royal Asiatic Society ; Oxford : Merton College. The rules of the individual libraries are in general adapted to their regulations for lending books to local borrowers or within the special federation already mentioned. Only the facilities are not so great and the precautions are greater. Most of the libraries will not send a book if the large library nearest to the applying library or person possesses a copy of the book, nor will they send books post free out of their State and pay the fee for the delivery of the returning parcel, the borrower must thus pay postage and carriage to and fro. Often a fee for packing, though quite a small one, must be paid also : to the Royal Library at Berlin, 20 Pfennige for i kg., 30 Pfennige for 1-5 kg., 40 Pfennige for 5-10 kg., 50 Pfennige for 1 0-20 kg. (not chargeable to persons who have already paid the semi-annual lending fee of aj Mark) ; to the Munich Library, 20 Pfennige (10 of these for the ' Bestellgeld ' of the returning parcels) ; to the Leipsic Library, 15 Pfennige for 1-5 kg., 20 Pfennige for more kg. As a rule, the books sent are insured. The Royal Library at Berlin, for instance, insures all books sent out of the Prussian Leihverkehr: in general an ordinary volume for