ABSTRACT
The main stream of development of co-operation has been through the still growing activities of the National Central Library. Many universities and university colleges belong to the regional bureau in their area, but they have also a system of their own operating over the whole country and known as the Joint Standing Committee on Library Co-operation, the enquiry office of which is at the National Central Library. If more than one library in the bureau area has the wanted book, each is asked in turn until the loan is arranged, or until it becomes necessary to seek the aid of the National Central Library. The contributions, both in money and service, are not even as regards small and large libraries. The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust financed also the Irish Central Library for Students which, since 1923, has carried out similar work in Ireland, with its headquarters in Dublin.
