Abstract
This is the eighth report of the fundamental investigations for the planning of the public library system to community area. The paper describes the way of planning the library system to community area according to our theories which had been carried out since the first report. We present here to plan the library system actually, as a case study, to actual urban area Hirakata-shi, which have aprox. 300 thousands population in 64.5<km>^2. As the results, we give the place of service points on the map, such as branch libraries, stations of bookmobile, while the adequate number of books, number of new books, areas of floor space, number of personells etc. are given. In addition, the financial cost for the services are calculated on each case of the planning levels, by which the local authority can judge and decide the planning level for their public library system.
