Year: 1976
Type: article
Abstract: THEEXTENSIVE NEEDS of the various governmental and countywide agencies of Nassau County, New York, for additional library services were first brought to the attention of the Nassau Library System by a staff member from the county executive's office.Accordingly, in 1967 the system requested and received a small study grant under Title I of the Library Services and Construction Act.The purposes of the study were: (1) to ascertain the level of library service in governmental and nongovernmental departments, agencies, offices and organizations in Nassau County; (2) to determine what additional library services were needed; and (3) to recommend how they could best be achieved.'Relevant background material will provide a context for the study.Nassau County encompasses a 298-square mile area with New York City on the west, Suffolk County on the east, Long Island Sound on the north and the Atlantic Ocean on the south.In 1960, the U.S. Bureau of the Census listed the population as 1,300,171 ;by 1970 it had grown to 1,428,080.2The Data Systems Bureau, New York State Office of Planning Service, estimates the 1975 population to be 1,432,32fL3 Formerly the home ofthe New Yorkcommuter, 53 percent of Nassau's resident labor force was employed within the county in 1970.However, this statistic accounts for only 38 percent of the earned income of Nassau residents.The racial composition of the county changed markedly between 1960 and 1970, as shown in Table 1.
Author: Muriel C. Javelin
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W203045457