TABLE 2

Sources oF Books ForR ApuLts®

BY PERCENTAGE OF READERS SERVED

Sources of Jobnson
Books 1932

Public library 39

School library I

Friends 23

Purchase and home 30
library

Rental library 3

Other 4

*Adapted from various studies.

Haygood Strang
1938 1942
47 30
24 o
12 23
9 23

5 9
3 L,
TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES

15,730 102

'Includes “home and friends.”

Link &

NORC Hopf

1946
25
o
23
39

2,114

1946
21
o
29
31

1,082

°Includes all free

 

Field &
Peacock

1948
27
4
22

27
6
14

840

distribution.