The aim of this thesis is to investigate the possibilities for creating a national interlibrary loan system in Sweden and to see how it could be integrated into an international network . The methods used are both qualitative and quantitative. We have sent inquiries to a number of libraries and we have interviewed keypersons in the interlibrary loan field in Sweden. We have reached the conclusion that in spite of several impediments there is a lot that speaks for a Swedish national interlibrary loan system in the near future. A national bibliographic database is already evolving.