Prepared specifically for the Planning Committee, the Board of Trustees and the administration and staff of the James Jerome Hill Reference Library, this report reiterates statements and suggestions made in previous reports, but the restatement places emphasis on the sharpening of the Trustees' understanding of the program's objectives. Topics…

The final report on program and operations planning for the James Jerome Hill Reference Library attempts to: (1) review the general sequence of events in the planning and implementing of the new program, (2) bring together a number of memoranda and other statements previously presented to committees, and (3) assess the future potential of the…

The program planning phase to improve service programs includes the recommendations that the Trustees of the James Jerome Hill Reference Library: (1) commit the physical facilities and administrative organization to serve as headquarters for the cooperative program of academic libraries, specifically the Cooperating Libraries in Consortium, Inc.…