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126 E. SUNDSTRÖM
bear the costs of loan interchange with other countries whether to or
from Sweden. The incongruity of such proceedings is obvious. No
Swedish library has, however, up to the present, claimed economical
equa-lity mainly for the reason that loans to and from each spécifie library, with
the exception of loan médiation to and from the Northern Countries, have
hitherto been of no great moment. However, in considération of the fact
that not only have costs recharged to recipients been felt pretty heavily,
but that on several occasions requests for loans from countries not having
free postage have been abandoned on account of the entailed expense, there
should be reason enough for seeking to solve the question of economical
equality where, at present, such equality is not in force. The University
Library of Uppsala has expressed the desirability of taking steps to
procure complète reciprocity between the various countries, independently
of the loan traffic between the different institutions.
As already mentioned, and as may be seen from the tables, loan s
bothto and from Sweden, have mainly concerned the Northern Countries. On,
the other hand médiation of loans to and from other countries is of trifling
extent. This is partly due to loans from certain countries, e. g. England,
France, Italy being hampered by restrictions. In other instances, e. g.
America, the public has been discouraged by the distance and postal costs. As it
was considered of interest to ascertain to what degree it would be desirable that
loans between the above mentioned countries (especially England and France)
might possibly be facilitated, the question (No. .5) as to whether it had
been found difficult or impossible to satisfy the demands of the public
re-garding loans of English or French literature was put to those libraries
in-cluded in the investigation. Negative replies have been received to this
question from 4 libraries. Three others including the University Library
of Uppsala state that insufficient expérience prevents them from forming
correct judgement. The libraries of the Royal Academy of Science and of the
Royal Karolinska Institute, without having exactly answered the question,
communicate that all applications for loans from England and France have
met with refusai. From thèse answers it should obviously not be
con-cluded that requests on the part of the public for loans of English or French
literature is exceptional. Rather is it the case that the library in question,
finding it impossible to obtain the desired work from other Swedish
libraries or from any of the neighbouring Northern Countries, sought if possible to
purchase the same. In not a few instances, on the whole — as remarked
by the University Library of Lund — have loans been mediated from libraries
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