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.

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　Based on the results acquired in the study (I) about the range and scope of school library personnel tasks at 30 Japanese schools, 54 standardized workload indicators are formed. The workload indicators in this study are the smallest units which indicate the workload quantity of school library personnel. The workload quantity can be measured by the following formula.
　Workload (W) = Workload indicator (f) x Standard operation time (t).
　In the aboveformula, standard operation time (t) is the sum of time required to perform a task of schoollibrary personnel at satisfactory level.
　Since workload indicator (f) works as the function to workload (W), the value of workload indicators reflects the quantity of workload. With the same reasoning, the value of workload indicators suggests the quality of library services; more workload means more active services in a library.
　This study was given a hint in its making of working strategy from the 1974 draft of “Foundation Staffing for Schools: School Librarians” worked by the Task Force for Foundation Staffing in the State of Hawaii, U. S. A.

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　Once we watch keenly the libaaries situation trom late in the Meiji-era to the early Showa-era, We tind that libraries had increased too rapidly in number. Many ot those libraries had been established by the young-men's association.
　The work try to think well why they were established and increased in those days.
　The work of young-men's association was so similar to each other that it was difficult to distinguish one from other in early time.
　But, the government and Local-autonomy became to encourage the young-men's association to establish libraries after the Russo-Japanese War.
　Following are the reason why they encouraged them.
　1. In memory of aiming the Russo-Japanese War.
　2. To make the village and town at the local autonomy stand out as the best example ot the district.
　3. In memory of the Crown Prince's (Togu Denka) journey.
　In establishing the libraries, Fukushima Prefecture made public standard high, and government, the Ministry of Education, gave notice on materials that libraries ought to be stock in late Meiji-era.
　All of them were intended to combine the whole nation in thought and activities. Since then, the work of libraries and young-men's association have become pare of social education.
　At first, young-men's association in itself had been derived from some requirement to promote the growth of hamlet, but gradwally it became employee well of the government.
　As the result, the young-men's association libraries have been established on a large scale.

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'Horitsu Keizai Rondai Shuran' published in 1908-10 is appraised as a pioneer index of social science articles in the Meiji era. But, as a result of our examination, we detected the fact that a good few of the titles, especially economic and industrial titles, of the journal recorded in 'Shuran', are unreliable because of having a great lack of items listed there.

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