EUROPEAN INTERLENDING - SOME REMARKS ABOUT ITS FEASIBILITY

This paper contains an enquiry into the feasibility of a European interlending system. Actual and latent demand is estimated. Sources of supply and switching instruments are described. The following areas are studied: location instruments, requesting, processing, transmitting mechanisms, charging procedures and copyright agreements. The study concludes that location and requesting can be mastered using new information technology, but that for the other four components much more work still needs to be done. © 1991, MCB UP Limited