Although information services in university libraries were suggested as far back as 1939, it has only been since the mid‐sixties that the information function has been seriously developed by university libraries in this country. Such developments have largely been confined to the technological...

A survey of information services in university libraries also obtained details of the methods used to publicize these services. A distinction is made between active and passive forms of publicity, and it was found that the latter predominated. Active publicity was used most frequently by the...