The Chicago Public Library has established four reading and study centers in public housing developments, staffed by development residents. (JB)

Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore) hired twenty inner city teenagers for an eight-week period, placing them under four college student program directors. (Author/JB)

In adapting the concept of an information system to a public library, the Vigo County Library (Indiana) adopted a suspension of fines program. (JB)

An explanation of why lay library service in most United States hospitals has been underemphasized, with the suggestion that the public library should be in charge of such service. (JB)

A discussion of the problems in collecting statistical data for public libraries which were revealed in the "Survey of Public Libraries Serving Areas with at least 25,000 Inhabitants - Fiscal year 1968, conducted by the U.S. Office of Education. (JB)

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)

A description of the audiovisual department in the Louisville Free Public Library which, in its twenty years of development, acts as a communications center for the entire community. (RM)

Describes the use of puppetry in library programing for children at Veterans Memorial Library, Bismarck, North Dakota, noting the inception of the program, story themes, introduction of the fine arts, community response, puppet production, and benefits of the program. (EJS)

Discusses library staff and public reaction to the computerization of library operations at the Pikes Peak Library District in Colorado Springs. An outline of computer applications implemented since the inception of the program in 1975 is included. (EJS)

Personal experiences of a librarian's 1982 trip to the People's Republic of China are related, noting impressions of Chinese communism, encounters with the Chinese, the National Library in Beijing, a visit to a branch library of the public library system, and the Shanghai Public Library. (EJS)

This overview of public library unionism in the United States notes viewpoints expressed in the literature citing public-employee dilemmas, negotiation restrictions, and union effects on bureaucracies. Seventeen references are listed. (EJS)

In ComputerTown, USA!, a corner of the children's section at the Menlo Park Public Library, children and adults are trained to use microcomputers. This is one of the top five winners in American Libraries' competition to identify innovative library programs. (LLS)

The architectural designs of 13 of Canada's 124 Carnegie libraries are briefly described with 17 photographs showing features of the buildings. (CHC)

Presents the results of a survey of public librarians in the United States conducted to determine their attitudes toward intellectual freedom with emphasis on responses regarding extension services to poor and minorities, attitude changes, and factors that influence attitudes. (CHC)