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in addition to meeting the requirements of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), 1970, this Long-Range Program is presented to make known the library needs of the state and to show how funds under this Act may contribute to meeting these needs. The Program also aims to provide guidance to all citizens of Arkansas who are engaged, or may wish to be engaged, in developing, improving, and expanding library and information services; and to give direction to library governing bodies and librarians in planning and evaluating programs of library and information services. In preparing this Program the state's geography and history, and peculiarly difficult problems of low educational attainment and low per capita income are considered. The overall goal of the five year program is for the extension and up-grading of the state's system of libraries and the improvement of the quality of library services on a state-wide basis. (Other State Plans are: LI 003 985 through LI 003 988 and LI 003 990 through LI 003 993.) (Author/NH)