This study was conducted between May 1968 - June 1969 to investigate the individual and differing book ordering procedures, book ordering stationery, and book servicing requirements by public library systems of the United Kingdom. To help aid the standardization of forms, a questionnaire was sent to one-third of all public libraries in the United…

Library facilities and the inherent planning problems involved are discussed in terms of--(1) the library building consultant, (2) college and university libraries, (3) public libraries, (4) school libraries, and (5) hospital and institution libraries. Floor plans, architectural renderings, and photographs of various facilities are included along…

A proposal is made to use LSCA funds for the purpose of establishing a community video center in the Memphis and Shelby County Public Library and Information Center (MSCPLIC). The center would be designed to assist citizen groups of all kinds in presenting programs on the new cable TV system now being installed throughout the city of Memphis. Such…

Seventy trustees of various California library boards responded to a questionnaire designed to determine how the trustees viewed their duties, whether they agreed as to their responsibilities, what they felt were their main functions, and what was the division of responsibilities between the board and the library staff. The questionnaire data…

This report highlights the results of a survey designed to reflect the opinions and attitudes of the people of Colorado with regard to the libraries in the State. In July and August 1973, a base sample of 804 personal interviews were conducted with a cross-section of the State's population, according to an area probability sample. The results are…

Several hundred films contained in the New York State Division of Library Development's collection are listed in this reference work. The majority of these have only become available since the issuance of the 1970 edition of the "Catalog," although a few are older. The collection covers a wide spectrum of subjects and is intended for…

With over 250 environment-related periodicals available to libraries in 1973, it seems imperative to provide a selective guide which will assist the small or medium-sized library in developing a reasonable cross-section of the great variety of periodicals in the field. The following list of seventy publications has been selected with such an…

The following basic conclusions were reached after studying the libraries of Virginia by questionnaires, interviews and visits: the current formula for distributing state and federal aid is not completely satisfactory, and the level of funding is so low that its impact is almost insignificant; a coordinated library network in which regional…

The Information Retrieval and Dissemination Center of Levittown, New York, was created in September 1968 and funded through ESEA Title II and Title III as a joint pilot exemplary project of Union Free School District 5 and the Levittown Public Library. It was established to provide teachers with a quantity of material to be used in a classroom…

Specific aspects of public library administration that were investigated by this study were: economics of librarianship (improving services and reducing costs); promoting the use of public libraries; coordination of library branches having varied sizes, services and distances from one another; library cooperation; student use of libraries; methods…

The feasibility of utilizing Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) procedures in library management was explored. A survey of public libraries in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin was conducted by questionnaire to identify commonly accepted goals, objectives, and activities. The results of the survey were synthesized with the…

Since the inception of the Tanganyika Library Service in 1963, in-service training has been run for newly recruited library staff. All along, however, it has been difficult to find suitable reading material for the training programme. Hence the need for writing these notes. The notes have been written by senior members of the Tanganyika Library…

Presented in this report is an extensive evaluation of three library projects located in Chicago, Peoria, and the suburban Chicago area. All the projects reviewed have strong and weak points. Generally, the strong elements are a vigorous commitment to the people served, emphasis on inexpensive paperback books and collections of books stressing…

The series of selected statistical presentations of public library management data that originated in the Office of Education in 1945 is continued in this report. The data reported were collected with a questionnaire addressed to the 1,178 public libraries which serve areas having at least 25,000 inhabitants. The five tables of data include…

The purpose of this report is to present a study of the history and development of the New York Public Library. Attention has also been paid to the structure of the Library and it's various Divisions, including the Manuscript Division. However, this paper does not attempt to penetrate deeply into the policy and organization of the Manuscript…