The purpose of this paper is to show present conditions and problems concerning support of a privately owned archives preservation. The method of this paper is questionnaire survey intended for cultural administration that treats historical archives in February, 2009. Themain question item is (a) What kind of support does cultural administration do to a privately owned archives and an owner? (b) Howdoes cultural administration collect historical archives? (c) What public relations do you do for the support of a privately owned archives? (d) Does the cultural administration keeptabs on anowner? (e) Is the cooperation between cultural administration done for the support of a privately owned archives? The number of cultural administrations surveyed was 296, the number of respondents was 205 (libraries 66, museums 26, archives 25, historical resource pavilions 60, and the other 18), and the reply rates were 69.3. According to the result of the survey, the following problems were obtained that (1) To visit to two or more cultural administrations is hard to bear for an owner, (2) An owner misunderstands the function of the cultural administration, (3) The factor to insufficient support is not considered, (4) Support overlaps in two or more administrations, (5) The support more effective by the participation of each administration is not clarified.

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A resident survey was conducted for all households living in the specific resident block in Sapporo City. Through classifying the households by the age of the youngest child, the library utilization behavior of a family unit was analyzed. The transition of a library utilization style according to the progress of household's life stages as well as the effects of the car availability on the choice of utilized libraries are clarified. Large-sized libraries in distant places were used as "lending library" in the same way as nearby medium-sized and small libraries by the user segments of "married couple" and "parent and children". The conventional hierarchical library-developing technique based on the travel distance has become incompatible with the family users who jointly use the library and traveling long distance by the car.

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the reading education of school libraries in Korea. To the end, a questionnaire survey of students in high school was conducted. The data was collected from 369 students in six different high schools which have a teacher librarian. Also observations of the students' behavior at the libraries and interview with 6 teacher librarians were conducted. The major findings of this study are as follows: 1) the students thought reading is useful for getting information about their concern. 2) The major purpose of reading was for pleasure, but they were really not enjoying enough reading for some reasons. 3) The image and usage purpose of school library were to read books and to take a rest. 4) The desire of the students for teacher librarian was the systemic guidance of reading. In-depth analyses of reading materials were also their desire. In conclusion, this study made several suggestions on the reading education in school libraries. First of all, it was suggested that the students' interests should be reflected in reading education. Appropriate methods for reading and analysis on reading materials by teacher librarians were also suggested.

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This study investigated the movement for legislating the university librarian system in Japan from 1952 to 1965, including the negotiations among the principals in the movement. It considered the overall significance and limitations of the movement and some factors that worked against the proposals; it also took up the qualifying examination system for university librarians as a focal issue. The study revealed the following four items that needed to be addressed at that time if taken the standpoint that the status of Special Librarians at colleges and universities should be established. (1) Consider concrete proposals for establishing a qualifying examination system for university librarians in order for all kinds of university libraries to achieve a basic solution. (2) Adapt the perspective of university libraries as a whole instead of the differentially-formed perspectives of national, public and private university libraries. (3) Consider the basic flaws of the proposals for legislating the university librarian system to achieve solution. (4) Address an organized and sustained movement to meet those needs.

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