Project operations in the 1971-72 year clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of interagency collaboration in the intensive work of planning, establishing, and operation of the Action Library Demonstration Center. The Action Library is designed to effect maximum impact on inner-city student library needs, attitudes, and skills. The year covered by this report and its supplement was one of major accomplishments from formulation of goals to operation and evaluation of the Demonstration Center. It included the following major activities: formulation of explicit demonstration program objectives, and design of an evaluation program to measure results keyed to those objectives; selection and training of the Demonstration Centersstaff, including community aides; formation and active functioning of the Community Advisory Board; selection, leasing, and refurbishing of a facility for the Demonstration Center; development and inauguration of Action Library programs; selection, acquisition, and processing of print and audiovisual materials and equipment for the Center; conduct of a community survey, and other community information and participation activities; opening, Dedication and operation of the Center; evaluation and audit of the initial stage of the Center's operations; and carrying out a variety of communication and dissemination activities. (Other documents about this project are: ED 097830, 097831, 060884, 060885, and LI 003959 and 003960.) (Author/NH)