WHAT THEY READ AND WHY—ISRAELI VERSION

Water Planning for Israel, Ltd is the Israeli Government's central planning agency for countrywide projects of irrigation, drainage and water power. Its Technical Library serves the staff of engineers and technicians of the organization itself as well as technologists in other governmental, public and private institutions concerned with all aspects of hydrology and hydraulic engineering. The library's stock consists of about ten thousand books and bound volumes of periodicals, several thousand pamphlets and internal technical reports, and has a collection of articles and theses on microfilm; about two hundred periodicals and serials are taken currently.