INDEX

Houle, Cyril, 147
Housewives as library users, 30, 33,
37, 128

Illinois public libraries, falling curve
of circulation, 91

Illinois State Library, survey, son’

Income, library: linked to business
cycle, 9o

Information, public library as source
of, 17; see also Reference and in-
formation services

Italy, book reading, 77

Juvenile circulation and book stock,

5
Juveniles, see Children; Youth

Kaiser, Walter, 147
Krieg, Laurel, 63

Leadership and library use, 4649,
115, 127

Leigh, Robert D., 147

Leisure time, increased, 9o, 123

Librarians, as readers’ advisers, 77
(see also Reference and informa-
tion services); clientele satisfied
with, 84; professional, in public li-
braries of U.S., 5; should redefine
goal, 130

Libraries, private, see Books in the
home

Libraries, rental: circulation of fic-
tion, §8; circulation related to cur-
rency, 62; users, 17; women use,
more than men, 30

Library, public: communication,
book reading and, 3-18; concen-
tration of use, g6-111, 126, 127;
correlation between school library
service and, 70; a democratic insti-
tution, 126; direct impact limited
to small group of frequent bor-
rowers, 99-101; exercises indirect
effect upon community through
“opinion leaders,” 46-49, 115, 127;
how it can affect reading through
policy of book acquisition, 6o;

171

implications for policy, 123-35;
kinds of services provided, 51-87;
natural and social changes re-
flected in, 129; note on method of
research development with refer-
ence to use, 137-46; number in the
U.S,, 5; origins, 5; problem of op-
timum allocation of resources,
134; proper distribution agency
for “light” fiction? 131; redefini-
tion of raison d’étre called for,
131; relationship between use and
use of other communications, 16;
relationship to commercial media
of mass communication, 132; role
to serve serious and culturally
alert, 130; universality of service
practically impossible, 130; unre-
corded use of materials, 77; use of
a “typical,” 123; use of, compared
with other channels of communi-
cation, 15-17; “users,” 10; when do
people use, 8895

Los Angeles Public Library, chil-
dren served by, 117, §5; concen-
tration in use, 1027; survey of
kinds of books supplied to adults
by various agencies, 58, 59

Lowrey, Janet, 147

McFadden, Marian, 147

Magazines, as reference material, 74,
86; concentration in audience, 98;
popularity as medium of communi-
cation, 6

Managerial people as library users,
30, 33, 37

Marital status of library clientele,
39, 126

Meeting rooms for clubs, 79 ff. pas-
sim

Men as library users, 30, 31-33, 104,
126, 128

Method, note on, 13746

Michigan, University of, Survey Re-
search Center, 4

Middle income groups as library
users, 37-38, 126

Mills, Nina, 147