ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In the preparation of this report the author is much indebted
to Lester Asheim for his patient and competent help in collecting
raw materials. He did a tedious, but essential, job with unfailing
judgment and good humor. Also, the author is grateful to the
staff of the Survey Research Center for their co-operation which
helped to make the task of integration less difficult.

The staff and the advisory committee of the Public Library
Inquiry contributed several suggestions during the two meetings
on this report. Whatever ease and felicity of expression the re-
port has was placed there through the editorial ministrations of
Lois Murkland, DeWitt Hardy, and Robert D. Leigh. To Dr.
Leigh, as director of the Inquiry, the author is especially in-
debted for encouragement and understanding at every point.

Many useful criticisms were provided by the readers of the
preliminary report: Elizabeth Briggs, Leon Carnovsky, Herbert
Goldhor, Frances Henne, James G. Hodgson, Cyril Houle, Walter
Kaiser, Marian McFadden, Ralph Munn, John Richards, Helen
Ridgway, Edgar Schuler, David Truman, Ralph Tyler, Nell
Unger, and Louis R. Wilson.

The many difficult problems in the preparation of the report
could not have been overcome without the extra, yet good-willed,
labor of Janet Lowrey, Ruth Thomas, and Nina Mills.

To Rosalind Berelson I am indebted, as always.

BERNARD BERELSON