Service Hours in Selected Academic Libraries.

MANY COLLEGE and university libraries are being pressed to remain open into the early morning hours and in some cases to remain open twenty-four hours a day. In order to determine how many hours weekly their libraries were open, a questionnaire was sent recently to forty-three selected state and private universities. Thirty-six questionnaires were returned. The average library in this group stayed open 94.3 hours a week. One stayed open 110 hours a week, while another stayed open only 81 hours a week. The closing time of the libraries is as follows: