ABSTRACT
We can talk of an action system of this nature wherever a public library system has been established. This means a library system that is no longer connected with religious groups, is not connected with any political or ideological movement, and is not, like academic libraries, linked with any research or educational establishment (college of higher education, university, academy, research institute, etc.) Public libraries further “primarily, general information, general political and professional education and also entertainment”; they make “their books available to everyone without any restriction” (Hacker 1976, 13). Libraries of this kind are provided entirely by public bodies (communes, states, the federal government).1
