This report provides summary information about public libraries in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year (FY) 2002. It covers service measures such as access to the Internet, number of users of electronic resources, other electronic services, number of Internet terminals used by staff only, number of Internet terminals…

This document examines the launch of the Smart Cape Access Project in Cape Town, South Africa. In a city where more than 80 percent of the citizens do not have access to computers and fewer still can access the Internet, public officials set out to build a "smart city," where "informed people could connect to the world and to each other by the…

An historical profile of the New York Public Library helps explain its budgeting problems. Extensive fund raising in 1972 enabled the five research libraries to remain open to the public, but sustained federal funding will soon be necessary. (DH)

Las Vegas is home to a variety of public, special and school libraries. A directory is provided to encourage ALA librarians to visit them during the 1973 convention. (DH)

This somewhat satiric article reports on the termination rites for federal funding of Library Services and Construction Act programs held recently at HEW. Revenue Sharing is supposed to fill the void but assurances of that were not well received by the gathered mourners. (DH)

The four day work week has been tried and found successful at the Ramsey County (Minnesota) public library. (DH)

Predicts that intellectual and technological revolutions will place new and continuing demands on libraries. Public libraries will develop a community orientation where private research facilities exist but public research libraries will also develop. Permanent research and evaluation programs will be established. (JS)

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)

Describes efforts to provide library service to Spanish-Americans in the Southwest, through bilingual staffing, helping children to feel pride in their heritage, and providing service to the social agencies. Includes bibliography. (JS)

Libraries and librarians can live up to their commitment to freedom of the mind by grasping the initiative, wherever possible, by supplimenting the traditional role with continuing seminars on the choosing and deciding roles of society. (Author/JS)

In the future, the central unit of the large city library will be pulled in opposite directions by two inevitable forces: the specialized demands of an interdependent society centered in the metropolitan area, and the deterioration and rehabilitation of the city itself. (1 reference) (Author)

The Dallas Public Library and Southern Methodist University have joined forces to aid College-Level Examination Program learning center. (Editor)

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)