This handbook contains policy and procedure guidelines for establishing and maintaining libraries for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (in regional, area, and insuring offices). In addition to delineating the relationship between these field libraries to the headquarters HUD Division Library, the text offers guidelines affecting: staffing, budgeting, physical planning, acquisition of materials, and the organization and circulation of materials. This document supercedes the Home Finance Agency's "Initiating and Operating Procedures for Regional Office Book and Periodical Collections." (EMH)