Editorial

THE RECURRENT central theme of lectures which I have given in the past few years to practising and student librarians has been that the reading habit has failed to gain as substantial an affiliation as television‐watching has among children and young people during the last twenty years. My point has been that television has secured for itself first place in the communication‐preferences of a majority of the young, whereas reading held that place among pre‐television generations, though it did so across a much narrower section of the population than is today receptive to communication.