Besides the main article by Richard Dougherty, this mini-symposium on library cooperation contains commentaries by Ralph Blasingame, Thomas J. Galvin, Ellsworth Mason, John F. Anderson and Robert S. Ake. (18 references) (NH)

The Ohio State University Main Library acquires and processes books, on a cost-supported contract basis, for each of four regional campus undergraduate libraries. The article describes requirements, rationale, and procedures, and diagrams procedural flow. (Author/NH)

In studying library cooperation as a process of exchange, it is possible to approximate its power to affect the ability of libraries to meet their professional obligations. (Author)

Cooperative library reference services are listed in this directory by state. The following information is provided for each program: name, date established, name of the administrator, list of participants, type of agreement, sources and amount of support, the services provided, publications, and where to direct inquiries. A copy of the…

This article is number 2 in a series of 10 from USOE's Regional Library Services Program Officers.

Speech given before the Conference on Public-Library Relations (New York City, February 8-9, 1968).

This report deals with the problems relating to cooperative long-range planning for the seven Boston Theological Institute (B.T.I.) libraries. A single united library was considered and rejected as a solution to problems confronting these several libraries, because it would sacrifice the advantages of present decentralization by delaying responses…

Seven conditions necessary for a network are comparability, coordination, centrality, collegiality, compatibility, consortia and compensation. (9 references) (Author/AB)

Summarizes some of the findings relative to matters of cost and effectiveness of library cooperation programs which may be of general interest to the profession as a whole. (NH)