The Federal library community relates to and serves the library profession through many diverse programs. Greatest assistance is provided in the form of general guidance--through the initiation of specific projects or courses of action. (Author)

ALA could move forward by becoming an association of libraries in fact as well as in spirit. (Author)

Some of the purposes for which state-aid formulas are established are listed., some assumptions necessary for establishing the concept of state participation in funding libraries are identified and some problems to which both may lead are printed out. These are followed by some suggested principles for the development of formulas. (NH)

Suggests ways and means by which libraries and librarians should change to keep pace with changing needs in our society, and to be responsive to them. (AB)

Part of a series edited for the "ALA Bulletin by Jean E. Lowrie, chairman of the AASL International Relations Committee and head of the Department of Librarianship at Western Michigan's School of Graduate Studies. (Editor)

Part of a series edited for the "ALA Bulletin by Jean E. Lowrie, chairman of the AASL International Relations Committee and head of the Department of Librarianship at Western Michigan's School of Graduate Studies. (Editor)

The author of this poem is a writer and former children's librarian at the New York Public Library's Nathan Straus Branch. (Editor)

Summarizes some of the findings relative to matters of cost and effectiveness of library cooperation programs which may be of general interest to the profession as a whole. (NH)

This paper was presented at the Conference on The Library in Society--Towards the Year 2000, given at the School of Library Science, U.S.C., Los Angeles, April 25-26, 1968.