LOCAL CO‐OPERATION—A POSITIVE FORCE Available to Purchase

Though there may be little profit in tracing the antecedents of the local co‐operative schemes between public, college, special and institutional libraries currently operating in this country, it is pertinent to recall the aims of the International Institute of Bibliography. The nineteenth century dream of establishing, by co‐operation, a world bibliography of intellectual literature, and, more particularly, of supplying on demand comprehensive bibliographies on any specialized subject was obviously doomed from its conception.