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LOANS OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS 127
in Germany, especially loans of older English and French literature. As for
the Royal Library, difficulties have been experienced in the procuring of
English and French literature, especially books printed in the 19th Century
and later. The Royal Library is of the opinion that it would be desirable
that loan conditions between Sweden and the countries above mentioned
should be facilitated.
The remaining question as to whether manuscripts or print should,
in certain cases, be lent in the form of photographie reproduction has met
with affirmative reply from every library. The method was practiced
earlier in several libraries and is therefore not new to Sweden. As
the methods of photographie reproduction of today (e. g. photostatic) are
not so costly, it might be assumed that loans of manuscripts could be
sub-stituted to a greater extent by photographie copies. This should of a
certainty be the case, when, as pronounced by the University Library of
Uppsala »bulk does not occasion more considérable expense». The University
Library of Lund is of the same opinion, but adds that even though the
question of expense should not serve as an obstacle in the way of
reproduction, it would in some cases be exceedingly déplorable for the student
if loans of manuscripts in the original were to cease. As regards rare
print there should be room for increased demand of photographie
reproduction, and the reproduction of articles from periodicals should, on the
whole, be of great value in seeking to limit the loans of periodical
publications.
As regards the transport question, and judging from the expérience
of some of the greater libraries, there appears to have been no comments
of any weight against the expedition, in Sweden, of loan to and from
abroad. The majority has been forwarded by the Swedish post. Delay
has been known to occur by reason of the usual custom-house
examination, but this may be regarded as an exception. To what extent the
männer of conveyance, outside Sweden, in exceptional cases, may have been
responsible for delay, the libraries are unable to judge.
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