The purpose of the paper is to examine empirically various statistical methods for automatic assignment of document classification numbers and descriptors, and to develop more effective one. A Japanese bibliographic database in library and information science, which consists of about 9, 000 journal article records, is used for comparing performance among some methods of automatic classification and indexing. Then, according to some findings obtained from the experiment, a new approach based on the idea of a relevance feedback method is proposed, and it is empirically shown that the approach outperforms the other methods.

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After WW2, with the intention of re-education and dissemination of democracy in Germany, the U.S.Information Centers were established in western area under the Allied occupation. A small reading room as the first Center was opened in July 1945 in the suburb of Frankfurt a.M. The Centers numbered 17 by 1947 and 47 by 1953. They were called "Amerika Haus" in German. At the beginning of the occupation period, the Military Government (OMGUS) was not much interested in the centers policy, but, in the Cold War years, during which the Smith-Mundt Act was enacted in 1948 and the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949, the AH got a definite position as a "window to the West" in the information program of State Department. They provided various cultural services, such as circulation of English and German books, public lectures, motion pictures and other programs, on the model of American community libraries. American library policy in Germany under the occupation had not so much reformative intention as in Japan, but laid strness on the introduction of American culture to German people.

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In this paper, I try to sketch out a plan of financial management of the library by forming a theoretical structure, which, I hope, could become a guide for the research in future. In the first place, I examine the financial circumstances of libraries in Japan, especially in the four financial areas: financing, budgeting, execution & accounting, and auditing. Then I clarify the concept of "library finance" and related financial factors, after reviewing antecedent researches in Japan. Secondly, I discuss major issues of budgeting, execution & accounting, and auditing, which compose key processes of financial cycle of the library, with reference to the Japanese government accounting system. Thirdly, in the light of the above analyses; I propose some subjects of financial management of the Japanese library, which consists of three theoretical categories: financial management (in a narrower sense), financial process and financial resources.

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