The purpose of this paper is to find out what is the position of the library in elementary-school children's daily activities and what factors do affect their library uses. We made a questionary research. The subjects of this research were 717 children above 4th year of two elementary schools. In the questionary, they were asked to rate thirty-two items pertaining their daily activities. We adopted factor analysis to analyse these data. This statistical method could make clear the position of the library in their daily activities.
As a result, it was found that their daily activities were centered around two factors: reading and amusement. In detail, it was found that non-fiction reading act as a descriminating indicator of several library-related groups.

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A comparison of bibliographic descriptions between library descriptive cataloging and abstracting-and-indexing (A & I) services is tried, for the purpose of making clear something common and something different between the two. The comparison is executed by using rules for a bibliographic description and specifications for an exchange format that the author could get, and then the results of the comparison are arranged in the following order:
1) differences in setting descriptive elements,
2) differences in handling of each element.
As a result, it is proved that both bibliographic descriptions in descriptive cataloging and A & I services are fairly similar in setting bibliographic elements. Then, it is also proved that both bibliographic descriptions adopt the principle of transcription as a basic principle, and bibliographic descriptions in A & I services, however, permit bibliographic elements to be modified and/or translated when it is necessary.
Therefore, it can be concluded that both bibliographic descriptions are arriving at a substantial agreement in the general situation, however there remain various differences of the perception levels of importance.

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Number of the university libraries open their doors to the general public increases every year in Japan, but this raises problems of staffing, facility and resources. Now more cooperation is required between different types of libraries.
Discussion for open door policy about these university libraries is one of the most important subjects today. In this paper, the author will examine and compare the situation about general public access to the university libraries based on 5 cases of the nationwide studies of national, public and private university libraries.
This discussion focuses on the following three points :
1) the causes and the purposes open door policy of general public access of each university library,
2) the content of services and its difference in each university library, and
3) the types of arrangement of the library for general public access and its successful implementation.

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