The authors investigated to what extent the number of books published in half a year the libraries in Japan contain, and what category of the books they prefer. The libraries considered include public libraries, college or university libraries, and the national diet library. Their stocks were researched by means of the search APIs of Calil, Webcat Plus, Porta. The findings are as follows; The contents of the public libraries covered more than 80% of the books. On the other hand, the college or university libraries have less than 60%. They prefered the specialized books. The national diet library covered less than 90% of the books.

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For exploring a premise of school library reformation during occupation era in Japan, this paper confirmed how a American public school curriculum reform from 1920's to 1940's apply the function of school library. Moreover, this paper compared Japanese translated text with original texts of the reform. This study focused on the reform program in California State and Virginia State. I examined lecturer books and course of study about these reform programs. These programs have influence on many public school reforms. The program in California State was based on child centeredness theory. The program in Virginia State was based on social reformism theory. These programs have differences on theory. However, these literatures had common to describe the new structure of the school curriculum and new lecture methods. I found that these literatures of these programs described the importance of school library function and the relationship between school curriculum and the school library function. Therefore these programs indicated the importance of the school library function in school curriculum. In Japanese occupation era, a Japanese researcher of education had translated these literatures from English to Japanese. Many Japanese teachers and educators read the translated materials. However, there are many lacks of the description of school library in the materials of the program.

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