The fifteen years of operation of the program are reviewed and evaluated. (NH)

Urban main libraries must provide services and collections for very diverse users. (25 references) (SJ)

The High John Library experience is reviewed including its areas of success and failure as well as some suggestions about what should be done differently should such a project be again undertaken. (NH)

Described is the Westward Ho summer reading program sponsored by the Alabama Public Library Service. (SJ)

The threat from school libraries coupled with misdirected publicity efforts has created the need for a massive nationwide public relations and advertising campaign whose main appeal should be to nonusers. (Author/NH)

The paper describes the attempts made in recent years to determine the essential functions of a national library. It considers these functions in relation to the recommendations of the Dainton Committee and the proposals in the White Paper on the British Library. (14 references) (Author/MM)

Described in this article are the trends of library work with young people during the restrictive war years, and the succeeding period of austerity, to the palmier years of the 1950s. (29 references) (Author/MM)

This brief introduction sets the stage for this issue's topic of the libraries' role in social problems. (MF)

These reports were compiled as representative of the broad spectrum of socially-concerned activity that can be observed in the library profession at almost any given time. (Author/ MF)

Public library service within Appalachia is an emerging thing. It is growing steadily and has a tremendous potential for further growth. (28 references) (Author/NH)

It does not appear that there will be significant improvements in library funding for the foreseeable future. Public libraries will have to adjust their services and programs to the reality imposed by fiscal constraints. (10 references) (Author)