CO‐OPERATIVE ACTION: WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM ABROAD

Before we can establish whether anything can be learned from abroad, we must find out what services are available abroad. A recent survey by Frances E. Kaiser of the Georgia Institute of Technology enumerated no less than forty‐two translation pools in eleven countries showing that there are schemes in many countries, and quite a few in some countries, but only a few national schemes, notably in East Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and France. This survey does not include the translation pools in the USSR and Poland, about which far too little is known. Mr Patrick and Mr Goldstone have already spoken about the Aslib index, but it must, of course, be borne in mind that this index is duplicated in several Commonwealth countries, namely in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and South Africa. In view of the fact that their experience must perforce be rather similar to that of the British section of the index, I shall not discuss this any further.