The possible combination of library and study hall in a program of library service to high schools remains a much discussed question. It is a problem to which both school administrators and librarians must give more concentrated attention within the immediate future. This seems particularly true in the South where school libraries are still in the experimental stage and where the economic situation remains acute. The scope of this paper is an effort to present both sides of the question. In order to clear the situation, it should be stated at the outset that nowhere does the matter of supervised study enter into the picture, this being presumably taken care of during the classroom periods. The combination plan signifies that high school students report directly to the library for work during their vacant periods. As a bit of laboratory study, there is presented the case of the Laurens, South Carolina, high school where the writer spent seven proverbial years, as a teacher when the library was only a nondescript collection of little-used ,books and as librarian of the organized library separate from the study hall which was finally absorbed by the library. This, it would seem, furnishes an excellent cross section for a study of the question at hand. Had some plan been devised actually to measure results, a scientific study with proper graphs and tables might well have been the outcome. While the librarian was too busy to measure results, however, it was easily apparent that, all things considered, the most satisfactory work was done under the combination arrangement of study hall and library. Since other factors were the same, the fact that all the students reported to the library every day must have accounted for the difference.