The writer described about the process of the establishment and the encouragement of the local library and the traveling library which established with active encourage by the social education, at the latter term of Meiji period.
　At that time, Kyoikukai which was mainly made up of teachers did their best to civilize people in the country as the system of the promotion in the social education in the systematization which is suitable to the local administration and it managed and should activity to the library.
　In Chiba Prefecture, they started traveling library in 1907, but after two years they changed their control to Kyoikukai. The library of Kyoikukai shifted to public institution and the public library was formed. But the example in Chiba Prefecture, pointed to the opposite process, the reason why the management and the organizing ability were kept up a local self-governing body at the time. However on the assumption that, Kyoikukai got the subsidy. But library could not have a chance to establish the central library and then season.
　In addition to it, as they made the first problem of the management of the promotion in the social education, only the service of the traveling library was emphasised and it made a long way to popularize of library. Like as this, most of the libraries and the traveling libraries at that time were reflect the plan of the Ministry of Education authorities in point of management, they were lost independence of the library activity.

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　This paper is to provide the preparatory discussion to build a methodological framework of librarianship in terms of bibliographic control, the concept of which is newly defined and enlarged. We review a series of theories of bibliographic control—IIB, Butler, Egan & Shera, UBC & UAP. On the basis of the review we construct a structural framework of bibliographic control on the unit level and the complex level. It was a flaw of the discussions ever made on bibliographic control that the whole control process whithin a community or society was missed, limitting the controllers to such professions as librarians, bibliographers and indexers both on the unit and complex levels. We find in the whole process of bibliographic control four streps—technologically strict conceptualization, considering human process, enlarging the domain and unconcious control process. As we follow these steps we will be able to utilize the term, bibliographic control, as not only a connotative one but conceptual device to analyze and describe “library phenomena”.

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　Public library service points should be organized as a network to provide an equalized and efficient service to all members of community. However, only 24 percent of municipal library systems having multiple service points are composed of a main library and branch libraries and only three percent have a comprehensive network providing a book-mobile service as well as a main library and branch libraries. This study aims at a better understanding of the user behavior of such a comprehensive network. In particular, we are interested in how and why users choose their favoured service points from among the multiple service points of the network. A questionnaire survey was circulated among registered residents of Kashiwa Municipal Library System. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the result of the survey.

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