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172

Montclair, N.J., Free Public Li-
brary: circulation records, 61;
registration, circulation, and con-
centration, 1017

Motion pictures, attitude of book
readers toward, ¢; concentration
in audience, ¢8; films, 8o, 81; pop-
ularity as medium of communi-
cation, 6

Munn, Ralph, 147

Murkland, Lois, 147

Music, sheet, 81

Negroes as library users, 39; reading
of adult, in Alabama, 667

Newspapers, as reference material,
74, 86; attitudes of book readers
toward, g; concentration in read-
ing of, 97; popularity as medium
of communication, 6

New York Public Library, fre-
quency of use, 9g; reasons for us-
ing readers’ advisory services, 76

—— FEconomic Division: reference
service, 70

Nonfiction, borrowers, 69; concen-
tration among “light” users, 106;
distribution, 55 ff.; relative turn-
over of fiction and, 6o

North, public library use in the, 40

Norway, book reading, 77

Occupation a correlate of public li-
brary use, 30-37, 104, 126

Opinion and community leadership
and library use, 4649, 115, 127

Pacific Coast, public library use, 40

Periodicals, see Magazines; News-
papers

Personal characteristics, relationship
between, and public library use,
28-30, 125, 127

Pictures, 81

Policy, implications for, 123-35

Political interest, relationship be-
tween library use and, 46, 48-49,
822

Poor as library users, 37-38, 126

INDEX

Private libraries, see Books in the
home

Professional people as library users,
30, 33, 37, 56

Proximity a factor in determining
library use, 43 ff., 126

Public ignorance of services, 84

Public library, see Library, public

Public Library Inquiry, 4, 147

Public opinion, function of public
library as an influence upon, 46-

49, 115, 127

Quality, circulation related to, 63-
68; definitions of, levels, 65
Quigley, Margery, 1017

Race a determinant of library use,
39

Racine, Wis., library, reference
service, 52

Radio, attitudes of book readers to-
ward, 9; concentration in audi-
ence, 97; popularity as medium of
communication, 6

Readers, book: attitudes toward
other media of communication,
6, 9; see and read more than non-
readers of books, 8; see also Clien-
tele

Reading, actual, of library-circu-
lated books, 107-10; and the pub-
lic library, 3-18; concentration in
audience, ¢8; conditioned by ac-
cessibility, 6o; guidance, 76; how
library can affect popular, through
policy of book acquisition, 60;
in US. and in other countries,
6n, 7n; library’s influence on, 120;
related to other media, 6-10; see
also Books; Fiction; Magazines;
Newspapers; Nonfiction

Recordings, 79 ff. passim

“Recreational” area of communica-
tion, competition in, 134

Reference and information services,
69-74; clientele, 128; comparison
of circulation services and, §2;
materials used, other than books, °