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124 E. SUNDSTRÖM
Sweden which takes precedence as the lending party. To Denmark the
loans amounted to 372 volumes, whiJst from that country to Sweden the
number of volumes did not exceed 181.1 This difference is partly due to
the faet that loans from Sweden, and possibly especially from the University
Library of Lund, have included a number of Danish public libraries whilst
loans to similar libraries in Sweden have not, as a rule, been mediated through
those libraries included in the investigation. The difference between the
loans to and from Sweden and Norway and Finland is, on the whole, even
greater. The loans were eight times greater from, than to Sweden and
in the case of Finland ten times. That médiation of loans to Finland
should be so great is mainly due to the faet that extensive study of
Swedish conditions is carried on at the Åbo Academy, It also appears that
the Abo Library has made réquisitions of foreign literature (i. e. other than
Swedish) to Swedish libraries, to some great extent.
As for the médiation of loans to other countries, it will be seen from
the tables that loan médiation has only existed to any greater extent between
Germany and Sweden. The traffic between these countries is based on older
tradition. Requisitions have mostly been made from Sweden to the
Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, whilst, on the other hand, it is mainly this library,
and the libraries of the North German universities that, in turn, have
demanded loans from Sweden.
The reports responsible for the tables indicate that loans have included
both manuscripts and print. Through the agency of six of the eleven
libraries included in the investigation, loans of print and manuscripts are seen
to have been effected. Of the remaining libraries only two, i. e. the County
and Diocesan Library of Linköping, and the State Archives, have been
instrumental in mediating loans of manuscripts, whilst three, i. e. the libraries
of the Academy of Letters, of the Technical High-School, and the
Karolinska Institute have mediated only print. The loans of manuscripts to and
from the country as compared with the number of printed books, are of little
significance. Of six libraries, i. e. the Royal Library, the libraries of
Uppsala and Lund, the State Archives, the library of the County and Diocèse
of Linköping, and the library of the Academy of Science, the loans have
only been a matter of 87 manuscripts in all. To these libraries, with the
exception of that of Linköping, there has been a loan of 70 manuscripts.2
1 The figure is somewhat too high as the report of loans to Denmark (20 vol.) from
the library of the Academy of Science included loans to Norway and Finland.
2 The City Library of Gothenburg and the Library of the Royal Academy of Music
have given no spécifie report on inter-loans of print and manuscripts.
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