The new emphasis on customer-driven, market-oriented library service assumes that librariana know how to analyze their communities and assess the needs of their users. There is a significant body of research to assist the adult services specialist. Very little is known, however about either the information needs of children in general or the techniques that could be used to determine the information needs of children in a particular community. The article briefly reviews relevant literature and reports the findings of a research study designed to identify and categorize the information needs of 10-year-old children on southern California. Implications of this study for practice and research are discussed
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