Today's constantly changing, continually emerging urban environments affect the role and service functions of main libraries. (37 references) (SJ)

There is no one future for the urban main library; there are instead many potential futures, depending on the history and characteristics of any given city and upon the imagination (or lack of it) shown by the individual decisionmakers. (3 references) (Author)

A series of video tapes called, Profiles in Literature," are being made under the sponsorship of the Free Library of Philadelphia and Temple University's College of Education. The purpose of this series is to assemble an archive of interviews with prominent authors of children's books and use it to stimulate reading. (Author/NH)

If our public libraries are to reach all our people, from the deprived and poor reader to the intelligent and highly trained. they must change their image, both structural and personnel, and must offer more and better services for all. (NH)

What librarians have done and are doing to serve the handicapped and institutionalized as well as what they might do in the future are explored. (35 references) (Author/NH)

The problems and challenges which confront parish librarians are the same whether the church library is part of the Protestant, Jewish or Catholic structure. This article is concerned with parish librarians and public libraries. (Author/NH)

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

Adults have long been aided in their research by the facilities of the local public library, as well as interloan privileges with other libraries. Gifted children must also be given the advantages of these expanded library services so that they too can engage in research of interest to them. (Author/NH)

Surveyors and professional librarians should look to the methodologies of other fields, such as the social sciences, for more satisfactory techniques. (Author)

The author relates a chronological account of a recent censorship incident in Tulsa, Oklahoma and evaluates six factors which determined the turn of events. (AB)

A statistical report on the 276 public library building projects completed in the U. S. A. during the year ending June 30, 1970. (Author)

Building data is given for the following public libraries: (1) San Jose, California (2) Davenport, Iowa; (3) Louisville, Kentucky; (4) Gainesville, Georgia; (5) New Albany-Floyd County, Indiana and (6) Uniontown, Pennsylvania. (MF)

Good library legislation for public libraries is broad and general, flexible, permissive, specific in the authority for tax support but not with limitations, clear, conceise and stable. Library laws of Hawaii, California and Illinois can serve as models for the other states. (NH)