More significant public library measurements and standards, and better and prompter statistics on which to base them, are needed. Suggestions for developing new standards are given. (Author/JS)

Makes a general survey of the urban environment and its relationship to the public library. Presents arguments against the decentralization of public library services. Suggests that the public library reach the young through contributions to school library collections. (RM)

Edited version of an address delivered at Institute on Public Library Management (12th, Madison, Wisconsin, April 26, 1968). The library network has not developed because the public has not recognized its potential usefulness. It can provide a new level of service if the value is not nullified by bureaucratic rigidity. (JS)

Public libraries should not try to be social welfare agencies. Their primary function should be providing information by the printed word. (JS)

How a determined group of San Juan residents created their own public library after waiting four years for the city library to open. (Author)

A description of the architectural design of the library. (RM)

A description of the new library building. (RM)

A description of the new library building. (RM)

Describes the Brooklyn Public Library's Bookmobile Service Trust, an educational traveling library which is intended to introduce people in slum communities to books and reading. The project launched in 1967 as a combination of business financing, private initiative, and library expertise. (JB)

Discusses the need for greatly expanded community library services, for librarians to accept social responsibility for education and information, and for the library to become a program for getting information to where it is needed. (JS)

The different roles of local and system library trustees are examined. The distinctions should be clearly understood for maximum benefit to the system and all member libraries. (JS)