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LOANS OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS 125
Regarding loans of periodicals, diversity of opinion seems to prevail.
Communications from the three great state libraries of Stockholm, Uppsala
and Lund — which alone have sent in such reports — state that altogether
222 (23 + 67 + 132) volumes of periodicals have been lent, whilst 103 (19 +
53 + 31) have been borrowed. These figures seem to indicate an
en-deavour to restrict loans of such printed literature. From the University
Library of Uppsala it has been specially pointed out that loans of periodica
»have occurred only in exceptional cases, and, as a rule, when the quest was
a matter of older German periodicals (about 1700—1800) or Russian
periodica». The opinion that loans of periodicals — on account of inconvenience
thereby entailed — should be limited as much as possible is shared by the
Royal Library, and more or less, on the whole, by several other libraries.1
The libraries of the Royal Technical High-School, of the Royal Academy
of Science and the Royal Karolinska Institute are of a different meaning.
The first mentioned states that loan to and from the library has »mainly»
comprised periodicals. This must undoubtedly be attributed to the fréquent
publishing of results of scientific research — whether concerning medicine, or
of a technical or natural science nature — in periodicals and publications
of learned societies which publications, as regards the above mentioned
sciences, have been placed in the same category as printed literature of a
non-periodical character.
Loans from Sweden to other countries have been forwarded, as a rule,
free of expence, to the recipient, with the exception of rare cases when the
University Library of Uppsala for some reason despatched the goods by
other than parcel post. In such cases the recipient was charged with the
entailed expenses, and the loan whether to or from the country was returned
free of charge, obviously, to the library to which it belonged. Loans to
Sweden from the Northern Countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and the
Baltic Provinces are as a rule post free. On the other hand, parcels
from other* countries, e. g. Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, France and
Holland have only been obtainable on payment of sums covering the
expenses of packing, insurance, and postal charges. These sums have been
recharged to the recipient of the loan. From the above it is seen that a
prevailing coordination of free postage exists between Sweden and the
Northern Countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and the Baltic
Provinces. On the other hand Sweden has, as a rule, been obliged to
1 The City Library of Gothenburg without giviug any special opinion on the
sub-ject states that inter-loans have included periodicals.
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