Amagasaki City Research Articles

This is the first report of the fundamental investigations for the planning of the library system to community area in Japan. Survey has been done in Amagasaki city in 1960 to know the distribution of the many kind of libraries, -public libraries, school libraries, libraries in the offices, rending book-stores, etc.-, how they are going to be used by the people, and what relationships are among them. Some of the results are as follows : 1) People who live in a residencial or commercial district read much books, compared with an agricultural community. 2) Ratio or number of readings depend on the age and school career of the people. 3) When people want to read a book, most people buy it at the book-store, some go to the rending book-store etc., and there are only few who go to the public library at the present circumstances. It seems mainly due to the poor condition of the public libraries, inferior to the number of buildings or books, compared to the other kind of libraries. Therefore, it is expected that more people go to the public libraries when the condition will be raised in near future.