Research

Scope and Content Note

These are records of the hearings held by the Commission. The series contains transcripts of each day's hearings.

Accompanying the transcripts for hearings in each city are summaries of the testimony providing: number and general affiliation of speakers; funding concerns and observations; answers to six specific questions posed by the Commission: 1) What is a library? 2) What access should library users have to books and other kinds of library materials? 3) Who should be responsible for the availability of informational and research materials? 4) Who should participate, and in what manner, in the planning and control of library policies? 5) How can the resources and services of all libraries and other information sources best be interrelated for the benefit of all users and potential users? 6) What applications of technology should be explored for maximum user benefits, and what are the likely limitations on such technological applications?; state mandates concerning libraries; new concepts and programs; and excerpts of important testimony.

The series also contains written statements submitted to the Commission addressing: technology; access; interrelationships and resource sharing; library functions and services; and finance and governance.

A few related items are also included in the series: promotional/informational brochure and report regarding the Governor's Conference on Libraries; and tape cassettes of the New York Library Association's 84th Annual Conference, 1977.