INTERLENDING AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY: A REVIEW OF RECENT LITERATURE: I

The principles of national interlending put forward by Line and Vickers and those for international lending developed by the IFLA Office for International Lending are considered in the Belgian context. A report on statistics in French university libraries and a survey of interlibrary borrowing by Antwerp University Library are summarized. Attention is drawn to some aspects of interlibrary loan costs. Various aspects of union catalogues are reported: the proposed German Union Catalogue (Deutscher Gesamtkatalog); union catalogue automation in France; the impact of the OCLC interlending subsystem on one US library; and a union list of serials/co‐operative acquisition scheme. Brief accounts are given of document delivery in South Africa, the use of telecopiers in a small network, and standardization of interlibrary loan procedures. A handbook on international lending in socialist countries and three reports of relevance to interlending in the Netherlands are mentioned.