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Focuses on the civil liberties and privacy rights of library users in the United States. Debate on the use of the confidential information related to library material borrowers; Protection from the misuse of personal confidential information under the Privacy Act; Confidential information related to arrest records; Use of computers in the access of files; Problems with circulation records of libraries; Library data abuses.

Discusses the findings of two separate polls conducted by the gallup organization on the library use patterns in New Jersey and the United States. Jersey adult public library use; Libraries used by adults; Top ranking books among New Jersey patrons.

Reports on the bus service to the library patrons being provided by the Nobles Country Library and Information Center in Minnesota to the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota for a performance of 'School for Scandal.' Cost of the bus services.

Editorial. Focuses on the effect of fines and penalties charged by libraries in the U.S. on library users who are poor and cannot afford to pay the fines. Resolution passed by American Library Association to form an ad hoc committee to formulate a national policy on the use of fines and other penalities by libraries; Arguments that prove levying fines to be unnecessary.

Focuses on expansion of an independent study program by a branch of the Great River, Illinois, Library System. Inclusion of courses scheduled on a circuit of member libraries; Chance for system patrons to attend free educational programs.

Focuses on United States-based public libraries' efforts to lure patrons. Soil sample packets at any facility of the Hennepin County Library in Minnesota; Maryland-based Baltimore County Public Library's publication of a bicentennial calendar.