Excerpts from the relevant sections of the discussion of the New York Library Association meeting and the position paper of the Regents of the University of the state of New York on transferring library service to children to elementary school media centers are presented. (AB)

Sources of endowment assistance are listed for libraries seeking federal funds. (AB)

Case histories of three New Jersey elementary school libraries. (JW)

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)

A survey of library activity in USOE's (United States Office of Education) Region V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. (RM)

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)

The 31 journal articles selected for this annotated bibliography fall into two categories: 1) articles which are prescriptive in nature, where a theoretical rationale is developed for the designing and implementation of centers, and 2) articles which describe learning centers now in operation. (Author/JB)

A discussion of administrative innovation which urges more administrators to risk change. (NH)

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)