ABSTRACT
This chapter describes within the whole spectrum of library and documentation activities, only the conditions for interlocking catalogues, with a view to networking and interaction. It explores the international activities and plans, including national information system, in the library and information field. The chapter discusses the advantages and disadvantages of alternative prospects for interlocking cataloguing in economics. There are no reliable statistics concerning the production of economic literature in the world. In the two largest economic libraries in the Federal Republic of Germany reports amount to 60 per cent of all new acquisitions. The aim of interlocking cataloguing is to provide a world-wide information system for economic science which would enable every user to get the publication required—book, journal of collection of statistics—or information about economic literature within a short time. Cataloguing is done in order to allow a search for publications according to bibliographical or subject criteria.
