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LOANS OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
BETWEEN LIBRARIES OF SWEDEN
AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES
By
K SUNDSTRÖM, Stockholm
ÄTHE FOURTH ÄNNU AL MEETING of the International
Federation of Library Associations held Aug. 29—31, 1931, at Cheltenham
in England, it was decided to make the question of international
loans between the various libraries a subject of closer investigation. A
printed pamphlet concerning loans between the libraries of Canada and the
United States was distributed at the meeting by Dr W. W. Bishop, Director
of the Michigan University Library at Ann Arbor. It was decided that the
delegates of the various countries should make a survey of the loans as
carried on in the respective lands to put before the next meeting of the
Federation in 1932. The following gives an account of loans between Sweden
and the various foreign countries during 1931.
Loans to and from Sweden have been carried on for some time past
through the médiation of a number of scientific libraries, each of which
has also acted in turn as medium for loans to and from other Swedish
libraries. Amongst these rank first the three great State libraries, the
Royal Library of Stockholm and the University Libraries of Uppsala and
Lund which serve as scientific central libraries for Southern, Central and
Northern Sweden. In addition, considérable loans are executed both at home
and abroad through the agency of the City Library of Gothenburg which
attends to the needs of Western Sweden. Of the remairiing scientific public
libraries mention should be made of the County and Diocesan Library of
Linköping, which, both on account of its size and the value of its old
collections of print and manuscripts, occupies a unique position amongst
the diocesan libraries of Sweden. But, as will be seen by the following
survey, loans, to and from this library during 1931 have been insignificant.
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