1965: The changing environment for library services in the metropolitan area

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 12, 1965); Edited by Harold Goldstein

The Twelfth Allerton Park Institute, October 31-November 3, 1965, on The Changing Environment for Library Service in the Metropolitan Area, analyzed and projected the problems of librarians serving in the four major types of libraries in metropolitan areas. The intent of the conference was to help shape for the participants some of the dimensions of this major social movement of our times.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• Metropolitan Population: Prospect And Change, 1960-1980 - Jerome D. Fellmann
• Government In The Metropolis - Charles Press
• Metropolitan Processes: An Overview - Philip H. Ennis
• Problems Of Planning In The Metropolitan Environment - Matthew L. Rockwell
• The Public Library In The Metropolitan Environment - Ralph Blasingame
• The Education Crisis In The Nation's Large Cities - Carl F. Hansen
• The School Library In The Changing Metropolitan School Environment - Sara Innis Fenwick
• Higher Education In The Metropolitan Environment - E. K. Fretwell
• Academic Libraries Amidst Changing Institutional Directions - William H. Carlson
• Industrial Research And Development In Metropolitan Areas-The Library Environment - George L. Royer
• Special Libraries, Their Supporting Institutions, And Metropolitan Problems - Bill M. Woods
• Appendix: A Brief To The Royal Commission On Metropolitan Toronto From The Toronto Public Library Board - H. C. Campbell
  

The Proceedings of the Allerton Park Institute have been digitized through the Open Content Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.