Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Legislative Library and Archives for 1972: Including the Reports of the Department of Health and Social Development Library, and the Director of Libraries Under the Public Libraries Act Growing use of its resources was evident in the increase in the total number of requests for information directed to the Library. The queries ranged from simple reference questions to complex problems involving research and full bibliographic documentation. The staff responded to more than reference queries in 197 2 compared to over in 1971. In addition to direct service the library supplied 374 interlibrary loan requests from other libraries in 1972 as compared with 327 in 1971; in 1972 the Library borrowed from other libraries 352 items compared to 294 in 1971. Current information reflected many significant public issues with which the federal, provincial and municipal governments are concerned and covering such diverse subjects as abortion, agricultural prices and income, community centres, day care facilities, dissemination of pornography, federal and provin cial elections, firearms control, foreign ownership and investments, govern ment ownership, housing for low-income groups, labour-management relations, mass media in politics, multiculturalism, poverty and income, Prairie Economic Council, public funds for aid to private schools, regulatory commissions, right of public employees to strike, rural depopulation, safety regulations for school buses, unemployment insurance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.