Network for interlibray cooperation

一With the emphasis on international resource sharing一

Abstract

　Summary: This article deals with some problems and their possible solutions of interlibrary cooperation on resource sharing on internationl level.
　I ddiscuss eight problems which hinder cooperation. They are lacks of: governmental support, true realization of advantages and benefits of cooperation, network for cooperation, up-to-date national union catalog, standardized procedure for services, network in Japan to handle interlibray resource sharing from libraries overseas; problems of: peculiarities of Japanese language for computalization, inaccuracy or incompleteness of bibiographic informations, cooperation among different types of librarier.
　My proposal is to establish regional centers to handle oversea interlibrary loan requests as well as domestic interlibrary loan requests.