14 COMMUNICATION AND READING

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Sources oF Books rFor CHILDREN AND YounG PeorLE

BY PERCENTAGE OF READERS SERVED

Sources of Books Johnson, 1932
Public library 37
School library 18
Friends 15
Purchase and
home library 22
Rental library 2
Other 6
TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES
1,856

BY PERCENTAGE OF BOOKS SUPPLIED

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1934 1939 1943
Sources of Books EXTOWN WYTOWN

Public library 20 27 25 30
School library 48 32 52 36
Friends 8 5 5
Purchase and home library 16 29 14 17
Rental library 2 I 1
Other 16 2 3 II

TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES

352 1,392 5,338

Thus, the public library supplies about one fourth of the
books read in this country by people of high school age and
beyond. It is one of the three main sources of books, which
are for adult purchase and the home collection, the public
library, and the collections of friends; for young people, the
school library, the public library, purchase and the home col-
lection.™

“This distribution of sources compares with the following distributions