This volume, the seventh in a series, is the first yearbook published after the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities was changed to the National Reading Conference for Colleges and Adults. All of the fourteen papers and reports presented at the annual meeting in December 1957 are included in this volume. Among topics covered by the papers are a summary of a decade of progress in college and adult reading programs, characteristic elements of the programs, the relationship of high school and college programs, television as a medium for improvement of reading ability, expansion of reading services in industry and the military as well as other government services, and recent research in reading. (JM)