2. Financial Support (a) District (towns and cities)-In order to participate in State grant for a "school library or other suitable educational materials," towns or school districts shall spend twice the amount for which a claim for State grant is filed. (b) County (No county unit for school and library purposes) (c) State The State shall reimburse each town or school district to the extent of one-half of the amounts raised by taxation and expended for "a school library or other suitable educational materials," provided the amount of the grant paid to a town or school district shall not exceed $10 for each one-teacher school nor exceed $5 for each 100 pupils, or fraction thereof, registered in all other public schools and provided each such town complies with certain procedures named in the law. See 3 (a) (1) and (c). 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District (towns and cities) (1) State grant-In order to receive State grant for a "school library or other suitable educational materials," the town shall during the fiscal year make application for such grant and shall file with the secretary of the State Board of Education (hereinafter called the State Board) a satisfactory statement of expenditure of twice the amount for which a claim for State grant is filed. (2) Regulations Board of education "shall make rules for the arrangement, use, and safekeeping, within their respective jurisdiction, of the school libraries provided in part by the State . . . (b) County (No county unit for school and library purposes) (c) State-Upon the recommendation of the secretary of the State Board of Education (hereinafter called State Board), the comptroller shall draw his order upon the treasurer to reimburse each town or school district to the extent of one-half of the amount expended by said town or school district for "a school library or other suitable educational materials." Payment by the State shall be made to the treasurer of the town or school district, as the case may be. 4. Books (a) District (towns and cities) (1) Selection-Board of education shall approve the books selected for purchase in part by State funds. See 2 (a) and (c). (2) Care-Any person who shall wilfully detain any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property belonging to a school or other public or incorporated library, for a period named in the law, shall be fined not more than $100. (b) County (No county unit for school and library purposes) (c) State-Connecticut State Library Committee authorized to assist teachers with their library problems and to loan books to schools. 5. Librarians (a) District (towns and cities)-Law silent (b) County (No county unit for school and library purposes) Law silent See 6 (c). NOTE.-Certificates to teachers may be issued by town boards of examiners under such rules and regulations as the State Board of Education shall prescribe and by the State Board. Certificates issued by State Board shall be accepted by local boards of education. The State 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District (towns and cities)-Law silent (b) County (No county unit for school and library purposes) (c) State The State Board shall annually appoint six persons who, with the commissioner of education, shall constitute the Connecticut Public Library Committee. The Committee shall extend aid to the teachers of any public school in selecting and cataloging books and in library management; and is authorized to loan books and pictures to schools. 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District (towns and cities) (1) Public library-Any incorporated school district may establish a public library, expend money for a site, and provide and maintain suitable rooms and buildings for such library or for any library which may be the property of any corporation without capital stock or for any public library that may have been established in such municipality, provided the use of such library shall be free to its inhabitants under such regulations as its directors or trustees may prescribe. (2) Contracts-The directors or trustees of any free public library and any school district may make contracts for the use of the library by their respective residents. Such use shall consist in whole or in part of lending books, of establishing depositories or branch libraries, and of the transportation of books. School districts may raise funds for defraying the expense of contract or regional library service. (b) County No county unit for school and library purposes) (c) State Law silent. LAWS RELATING TO EDUCATION, 1931, secs, 101, 158, 160-61, and 272; SUPPLEMENT TO LAWS RELATING TO EDUCATION (1931 edition) containing ADDITIONS AND AMENDMENTS MADE AT THE 1933, 1935 and 1937 SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Sec. 271 (c) GENERAL STATUTES OF CONNECTICUT, 1930, vol. II, sec. 6077; and 1939 SUPPLEMENT TO THE GENERAL STATUTES, STATE OF CONNECTICUT, 1937, 1939, secs. 150 (e), 266 (e), 284 (e), 285 (e), and 287 (e). Delaware 1. Procedures for Establishment (a) District-School district must provide libraries for all 4-year high schools. See 4 (a) (1). (b) County Law silent (c) State-Law silent 2. Financial Support (a) District-All 4-year high schools must have libraries. See 4 (a) (1). (b) County-Law silent. (c) State (1) Public libraries.—Whenever the Library Commission of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called State Library Commission) shall certify to the State treasurer that a school district has established a free public library and has raised not less than the minimum sum prescribed by law for the class to which the district belongs for the support and maintenance of said library, said treasurer shall pay to the district one-half the sum certified by the State Library Commission, provided the amount shall not in any one year be in excess of one-half of the maximum sum prescribed by law for the class to which the district belongs. See 7 (a). (2) Traveling libraries-The State treasurer is authorized and directed to pay annually, out of any monies in his hands as such State treasurer, $100 upon the order of the chairman of the "Committee on Traveling Libraries of the State Federation of Women's Clubs of Delaware," said amount to be used by the Committee for the exclusive purpose of purchasing books and cases to hold the same, and circulate them among the public schools of the State, under such rules as the Committee may deem proper. Members of the Committee shall receive no compensation for their services and shall make a report of the expenditures of said monies to the general assembly of the State at its biennial sessions. 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District-District library commission of any public library established by a school district shall make such reports and recommendations to the board of education or school committee of the district as it shall deem proper or advisable. See 7 (a). (b) County Law silent (c) State 4. Books (1) Inspection-State Board of Education shall prescribe rules and regulations "for an approved list of high schools of the State and determine the condition as to buildings, . . . library, laboratory ." which must be fulfilled in order that the high schools may secure the State support provided by law. (2) Regulations-Committee on Traveling Libraries of State Federation of Women's Clubs of Delaware shall prescribe rules for circulating among schools books purchased with funds tendered the clubs by the legislature; said Committee shall also make a report of expenditures to the legislature. See 2 (c). (a) District (1) Selection-All 4-year high schools shall have a supplementary reading and reference library of at least 250 volumes. All sums paid by the State to school districts that have established public libraries shall be expended for books approved by the State Library Commission. See 2 (c). (2) Care-School district public library books may be housed in the schoolhouse. See 7 (a). It is a misdemeanor subject to fine or imprisonment or both to wilfully injure any book, magazine, newspaper, or other property belonging to a library of any educational institution. (b) County-Law silent (c) State-See (a) (1). 5. Librarians (a) District-Law silent NOTE. State Board of Education shall prescribe rules and regulations governing the qualifications and certification of teachers in all the public schools of the State. A school librarian's certificate is required for all full-time librarians. (Rules and Regulations for the Certification of Superintendents, Supervisors, Principals and Teachers, Dover, Del., Department of Public Instruction, 1938, p. 10). 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-The State Library Commission shall have general supervision over all libraries in the State established and maintained by school districts. School district library commissioners shall also make reports at such times and embracing such matters as the State Library Commission shall order and direct. (b) County Law silent (c) State-See (a). 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District-Any school district is authorized and empowered to establish and maintain a free public library, with or without reading room, provided such establishment is approved at an election or funds for the maintenance and support of the library are guaranteed as provided by law. The general administration and supervision of such library shall be vested in a District Library Commission composed of 5 members appointed from the residents of the school district where such library is established by the resident judge of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware of the county in which the school district is located. Said Commission may with the consent of the board of education or the school committee use any schoolroom or rooms for housing the library. (b) County-Law silent (c) State Law silent SCHOOL LAWS STATE OF DELAWARE, 1939, 2630 (sec. 8) (d) (g) (j), 2681 (sec. 59) and ch. 34; also REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE 1935, 3989 (sec. 94) District of Columbia The District of Columbia is a special Federal area over which Congress has exclusive jurisdiction. It has no local subdivisions comparable to districts and counties such as exist in most of the 48 States. Hence, the plan used in organizing the subject matter on school library legislation that has been followed in the States is not applicable to the District. Congressional legislation pertaining to libraries for the public schools of the District falls under only one of the seven main headings used in the State digests-Librarians. A summarization of the legislation follows: Librarians (a) Certification-Law silent NOTE. Congress provides that the board of education shall appoint two boards of examiners-one for the white and one for the colored schools. These boards have prescribed qualifications for librarians in teachers colleges and senior high schools. (Boards of Examiners, Circular of Information Relating to Examinations for Teachers and Librarians. Washington, D. C., Public Schools of the District of Columbia, p. 24.) (b) Salary (1) "Group A-A basic salary of $1,400 a year, with an annual increase in salary of $100 for 8 years, or until a maximum salary of $2,200 per year is reached." (2) "Group B-A basic salary of $2,300 per year, with an annual increase in salary of $100 for 3 years, or until a maximum salary of $2,600 per year is reached." NOTE. A rider on the congressional appropriation act of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, provides, "that the average of the salaries paid librarians in the public schools shall not exceed the average of the salaries paid employees performing the same grade of work in the Free Public Library." COMPILATION OF LAWS AFFECTING THE PUBLIC (b) County Each county board of public instruction (hereinafter called county board) is authorized and empowered in its discretion to locate, establish, and maintain as essential to the instructional program, adequate libraries and library services in the public schools of the county which it serves. County superintendent of public instruction (hereinafter called county superintendent) must recommend plans for establishing and maintaining school libraries. See 3 (b). (c) State State Board of Education (hereinafter called State Board) shall prescribe such rules for the establishment, government, preservation, and maintenance of public-school libraries as will insure to the publicschool pupils of the State the best practicable library oppportunities. 1 The law provides that each county is the unit for the control, organization, and administration of schools. The special tax school districts referred to in the law as school districts are subdivisions of the county and said county unit for school purposes. |