Since 1950 when the Library Act was promulgated, the problem of status of university library staffs has been eagerly debated, but has come yet to no definite conclusion. That comes from the fact that there has been no unified opinion as to this problem even in library world.
　The writer thinks whether one of occupations is recognized socially as a profession or not depends upon a cultural and social function which an occupation carries out. From a historical point of view, we can say that a librarian has filled a role as a custodian of books. Secondly, a librarian has been considered not only as a custodian of books, but also as a collector of book. By getting each book together as a collection, it can produce a new value beyond what each book has had. However, a Iibrarian's role in these steps is only subordinate to a cultural- social value which a book or a collection of books have had. As a result, what a user of library wants to depend on is a cultural- social value of book itself rather than an activity of librarian. Here we can think the third step of librarian's role, that is reference work. Only in this step, a user can depend on a librarian's role itself rather than that of books. Only when an activity of librarian is considered as playing an important role culturally- socially, an occupation of librarian is recognized as a profession.
　From a point of view like this, the writer discusses concretely on the problems of the relation between a professional librarian and an administrator in a university library，university librarians, training for university library staffs, and offers a new point of view on these problems.

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　Among 378 universities and four-year colleges in various sizes in Japan in 1969, those institutions which possessed over 500,000 volumes were only twenty-three, and the largest one was the library system of the University of Tokyo with 3,400,000 volumes and the smallest was Chuo University with a few over 500,000 volumes, and two third of them were national university libraries. In terms of the size of the library holdings, the circumstances were much similar to the United States in the middle of 1930's.
　For next ten years, how materials in the university libraries in Japan will be, what problems about them will arise, and how they should be assisting educations and researches in those Japanese universities.
　In the chapter I, the following matters on university library materials are stated: a) Sizes and the rates of increase, b) How the library materials should be, c) Selections and evaluations of materials, d) A variety of materials and microform materials. Then, in the chapter II, the argument is concerned with the improvement and adjustment of the public services to be offered as one library system including various libraries in an university, and with its internal union catalog. Finally, the chapter III is related to the exertion for establishing regional and nation-wide inter-library cooperation systems.
　In 1970's library materials in each university must grow in various sizes and new types of materials like microform must be also added greatly. However, as a whole, the amount of university library materials will be still not larger than that of university libraries having been suffered administrative problems from the tremendous amount of increasing materials in the United States. The most important matter about which writer thinks is the offering public services of one library satisfactorily to all of the university people through the improvement of the library system. And then, all the library should cooperate to establish inter-library cooperation systems in various kinds, regional and nation-wide. Here we have to make efforts to discover Japanese styles of inter-library cooperations.

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　The library statistics of the last few years indicate a rapid increase of reserve book collections in the college and university libraries in Japan. This tendency has been encouraged through the allocation of special funds for development of reserve book collections in libraries, given by the Ministry of Education to certain nationally supported universities since 1966.
　Although the idea of the reserve book system was first introduced from the United States before the war, it has developed in its own way, and the system now prevailing in our country is somewhat different from a strict meaning of “reserved books”.
　In order to look back upon the fundamental idea of the reserve book system, the writer takes up the problems of teaching methods in the universities, introducing as an examble, International Christian University where the reserve books have been used for many years in close cooperation with faculty members. The discussion also includes the actual data of student use, as well as the evaluation of the system by faculty and students. Finally，the problems involved in the maintenance of the reserve book collection in the library are discussed and some suggestions are made for better use of this system to meet educational needs.

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　The mutual cooperation of university libraries has been discussed in Council on National University Libraries, University Library Committee of Japan Library Association and in library reform Committees of some universiy libraries.
　According to these movement, I like to discuss the theme dividing in acquisition, reservoir, service and cataloging.
I. Cooperation on acquisition.
　The book selection in university library is difficult both selected by academic staff or librarian since the budget is limited against the increase of publications. The cooperation of this problem, we had better refer in case of U.S.A.: Farmington Plan or National Program for Aquisition and Cataloging.
ll. Cooperation on reservoir.
　To collect foreign materials comprehensively, national center is desirable in Japan like Center for Research Libraries in U. S. or lending libraries in England.
III. Cooperation on service.
　Inter-library loan is indispensable to perform above mentioned items. However in Japan has some difficulties in inter-library service since closed system of each university library and under-developed library network. The most available institution will be a deposit library of natural science or science and technology which materials are mainly consisted by periodicals and also has function of information center.
IV. Cooperation on cataloging.
　a) Union catalog: There is no national union catalog in Japan. We cannot consider inter-library service without national or regional union catalog. We have only national union catalog of periodicals edited by the Ministry of Education.
　b) Printed catalog card: For the publication of union catalog, the use of printed catalog card (L. C. printed card for Western books and N. D. L. printed card for Japanese books) should be promoted. And a new element for processing work is appearance of magnetic tape catalog; MARC.
　c) Processing center: New regional library system shown in Ohio College Library Center as a central computer utility or Massachusetts Central Book Processing Center are typical model in United States. The way to the central cataloging or processing center should be well estimated in Japanese research libraries.

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