A self-interview by a deaf person who is the District of Columbia Public Library's Community Librarian for the Deaf. (PF)

Libraries are serving only a small percentage of the aged and more education, research and funding are required for new patterns of service to this group. (AB)

Describes the services ofseveral libraries in reaching the handicapped; services for which there is a real demand. (AB)

A number of public libraries are conducting innovative programs to provide improved library services to users. (AB)

Bookmobiles are one of the largest, costliest, and most complicated tools and deserve thorough development to provide reliable and trustworthy service to the public. (AB)

Public library services are threatened by a national mood of economic conservatism. Librarians should actively combat the threat by defending services, making collective decisions, resisting inflation, seeking federal support, responding to charges from politicians, and increasing efficiency. (FM)

An interview with Bob Smith, coordinator for young adult services, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio. (PF)

Six outstanding librarians comment on the Mission Statement from ALA's Public Library Association Goals, Guidelines, and Standards Committee. (JPF)

The annual city expenditure for public libraries is compared to annual expenditures for selected other services, from 1950 through 1968-69. (Author/MM)

Public library services to children have made great contributions in the past and should be preserved at all costs. (5 references) (AB)

Chicago's Carter G. Woodson Regional Library is a prototype regional library center. (PF)

Portrays a public library's struggle for survival in the face of serious financial cutbacks. Strengths of this successful campaign for a serial levy are discussed and offered as models for other administrators who are encountering less spectacular success in preserving their public library systems. (JPF)

To review the history of public libraries from the 1930's to the present, the author combines a chronological look at events with personal introspection, in an effort to distinguish the trends, the continuing influences and the new developments. (42 references) (SJ)

The libraries visited by the author while doing research for A History of French Foreign Policy, 1774-1939," his latest book, are described. (NH)

In ComputerTown, USA!, a corner of the children's section at the Menlo Park Public Library, children and adults are trained to use microcomputers. This is one of the top five winners in American Libraries' competition to identify innovative library programs. (LLS)