Abstract
Repository planning has been recognized as a national problem, but will in the immediate future be limited to regional activities. Retrospective conversion is sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in four libraries rich in collections of pre-1850 material; the Wissenschaftsrat recommends a much broader project involving up to 60 academic and research libraries and covering the recent period back to 1945. Basic to both projects is cooperation, adherence to standards, and utilization of a common catalogue source. International cooperation is recognized as attractive but difficult to put into practice.
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