Needs of a member country. Paper presented at the 3rd Plenary Meeting of the International Road Research Documentation, Paris, 8-10 November 1977.

A member of the IRRD-scheme is constantly confronted with the following problems: (1) the necessary funds have to be available (2) personnel who are qualified to prepare the input to disseminate the output (3)sufficient users have to be recruited for a break even point. The paper outlines what a member country could have done in the past and could consider doing in the near future.