Objective 1. Ensure that basic library and information services

are adequate to meet the needs of all local communites 32

Objective 2. Provide adequate special services to special

constituencies, including the unserved 33

Objective 3. Strengthen existing statewide resources and

systems 34

Objective 4. Ensure basic and continuing education of personnel

essential to the implementation of a National Program 35

Objective 5. Coordinate existing Federal programs of library

and informative service 36

Objective 6. Encourage the private sector to become an active

partner in the development of the National Program 37

Objective 7. Establish a locus of Federal responsibility charged

with implementing the national network and coordinating the

National Program under the policy guidance of the National

Commission 38

Objective 8. Plan, develop and implement a nationwide network

of library and information service 39

Summary 50

3 THE ORIGINS OF NCLIS

The Origins of the National Commission on Libraries and

Information Science 53

Federal Support for Comprehensive Planning of Library

Services: The Beginnings 53

Establishment of the National Advisory Commission on

Libraries 56

Legislative Action 60

Composition and Role of the Commission 62

Personnel and Administration 64

NCLIS Commissioners 64

NCLIS Staff 64

APPENDICES

I/The NCLIS Act-Public Law 91-345 69

II / Toward a National Program for Library and Information

Services: Goals for Action 72

III / President's Committee on Libraries and National Advisory

Commission on Libraries 80

IV/NCLIS Publications 82

V/ Projects of NCLIS 89

VI / Fiscal Statement 94

VII/ White House Conference on Library and Information

Services Authorization, Public Law 93-568 95

VIII/ White House Conference on Library and Information

Services-Resolutions

98

IX / White House Conference Advisory Committee and White

House Conference Staff 100

X/ Publications and Media Produced by the White House

Conference 104

XI / Elements of a Comprehensive National Library and

Information Services Program 106