So that there is not even one person that can bang the heads together of these different bodies. Each has their own agenda, their own line of thinking. Internationalism has increased further. We now see more and more libraries going direct to libraries in other countries. At long last we have the tunnel underneath the English Channel so it is cheaper and easier for someone in south-east England to go to Paris than go to Edinburgh.
Internationalism is affected also of course by the electronic revolution taken place.
It does not really matter where you are getting something by fax, from California, Boston Spa or Helsinki. It is irrelevant. Electronic publication and digitisation are changing the whole nature of library cooperation and collection policy. And universities are beginning to be more assertive. Surely if we organize ourselves well and use computers well, we can organize the whole of this thing without any national centers.