In the 1999/2. issues of Könyvtári Figyelő, several articles dealt with the history of the emergence and spread of the Anglo-Saxon public library model in Hungary (cf. the studies of Tibor Futala, Gyula Tóth, Miklós Fogararssy, István Sallai in the previ ous issue). In 1973 "Public library provision. Guidelines for long-term planning", issued by the Centre for Library Science and Methodology of the National Széchényi Library, was considered a basic document, used by libraries when asking for greater suppo rt from their maintainers for development. The study of Pintér demonstrates a possible realisation of the theory by means of describing the situation of the Pécs Town Library in the seventies and eighties. The development of the Pécs Town Library and its network stopped, its collection got into poorer and poorer condition. The town council being the maintainer made a large scale supervision in the library in order to determine how far the situation matches the aims of library policy. The quotations taken from the report of the 1973 supervision drew a vivid picture of the cultural, political, professional situation of the time, as well as of the professional duties of the library. It is also obvious today, that relatively little of the plans of that time (building, enlarging) have been realised.