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SOME DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS OF THE LIBRARY CO-OPERATION IN THE SYSTEM OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INFORMATION (SSTI) IN YUGOSLAVIA Dora Sečič National and University Library Zagreb, Yugoslavia Rapid development in information and communication technology brought about great change in the library world and revealed new needs for co-operation with other information systems. Yugoslavia is on the threshold of the electronic era in this field being in the initial phase of building automated library and information systems (LIS). Coordination and organization of LIS is the responsibility of national libraries of the constituent republics and autonomous provinces. However, library co-operation, particularly stimulated by IFLA, which has been developing since World War II and went through more and less successful periods came gradually into the sphere of interest of organiza­ tions outside the library community. In the seventies the Council of Community for Science of Yugoslavia, motivated by UNESCO s programme UNISIST, intitiated the development of the System of Scientific and Technological Information (SSTI). SSTI concerns, among other institutions, academic and general research libraries, special libraries and information centres in the field of science and technology. The first, introductory phase of this project was ter­ minated in 1988 and documented by the publication of the „Programme of the Development of SSTI to 2000". Further development of SSTI is stimulated by the governmental programme „The Strategy of Technologi­ cal Development of Yugoslavia". That brought financial support for SSTI and will ensure its faster progress. 42 Knjižnica. Tematska Sl. IATU L 1989