The Board has prescribed that applicants who graduate from specific shall be granted certificates to teach in elementary and secondary grades 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-Law silent (b) County Law silent (c) State State Board for Libraries "shall further the development of effective State-wide school library service," and "shall collect and preserve statistics, undertake research pertaining to libraries and make the resultant findings available to all public, school, and institutional libraries within the State, applying therefor." It may also give advice and counsel to any school library as to the best means of establishing and administering such library, selecting and cataloging books, and other details of library management. The State librarian is authorized to cooperate with the State superintendent in the preparation of book lists. See 4 (c) (1). 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District (1) Township-"A library may be maintained in each organized township or school district, which shall be the property of the township or school district and under the control of the township board of such township or the board of education of the school district. If in the judgment of said township board the people of said township will be better served by disposing of said library to the several school districts of the township, said board shall have authority to take such action." All persons who are residents of the township shall be entitled to the privileges of the township library. All persons who are residents of the city school district shall be entitled to the privileges of the city or school library, subject to such regulations as may be lawfully established. When a township is organized as a township school district, the control of the township library shall pass from the township board to the board of education. See 1 (a) (1). (2) First class (Applies to Detroit)-The law creating school districts of the first class provides that public libraries already operating under the management of boards of education shall be transferred to the newly created board of education. (3) Cities-Boards of education in cities having the control of free public libraries are empowered to provide for the maintenance of such libraries. (b) County County commissioner of schools is ex officio a member of the board authorized to administer the county library fund of a county library. In case a county contracts with an existing library for service, the county library fund shall be administered by the board or body having charge of said existing library and there shall be an advisory board of which the county superintendent of schools shall be a member ex officio. NOTE. In county school districts the chief administrative school officer is called "county superintendent of schools" rather than "county commissioner of education," as in counties not organized as a unit for school administration. At present writing Wayne County (county in which Detroit is located) is the only county school district in the State. The law creating county school districts is restricted to counties of 250,000 population or more. (c) State School district controlled libraries shall share in State aid for libraries. MICHIGAN STATUTES ANNOTATED, 1935, vol. 11, EDUCATION. secs. 15.15, 15.76, 15.161–15.172, 15.167, 15.195, 15.251, 15.307, 15.349, 15.725, 15.804, 15.1111, 15.1691, 15.1702, 15.1871-15.1872; vol. 25 CRIMES, sec. 28.575; 1939, CUMULATIVE SUPPLEMENT (covering legislation from the 1935 regular session to April 20, 1939), secs. 15.1565 (2), 15.1702 (1 and 2), and 15.1791 (2); and SUPPLEMENT (issued August 1939) sec. 15.738. 1. Procedures for Establishment Minnesota (a) District-Any school district may provide library facilities, as part of its school equipment, according to the standards of the State Board of Education. (b) County-Law silent (c) State-See (a). 2. Financial Support (a) District-School board of any school district may vote sufficient funds for the maintenance of the school library. See 7 (a). (b) County Law silent (c) State Any school district or unorganized territory may receive aid for the purchase of library books not to exceed one-half the amount expended or 50 cents per pupil in average daily attendance during the preceding year for 500 pupils, nor to exceed one-fourth the amount expended or 25 cents per additional pupil in average daily attendance during the preceding school year. 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District—The law states that the school board of any school district may make rules for the use and management of the library and that common school districts at their annual or special meetings may "make rules for the use and management of the library." (b) County-Law silent (c) State-See 1 (a) and 7 (a) (1). 4. Books (a) District-Books purchased with State-aid funds must be purchased from a list prepared by the State Department of Education. See (c). (b) County-Law silent (c) State The State Department of Education shall from time to time prepare and amend a list of books suitable for school libraries, including dictionaries and other books of reference, histories and works of biography, literature, political economy, agriculture, travel, and science. See 7 (a) (1). 5. Librarians (a) District-The law provides that the school board of any school district may "appoint a librarian" and that common school districts may at their annual or special meetings "appoint a librarian." See 2 (a); 3 (a); and 7 (a) (1). (b) County-Law silent (c) State (1) Certification-Holders of the High School Standard Special Certifi- 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-Law silent (b) County-Law silent (c) State-All powers, duties, and functions formerly vested in the State Library Commission are now exercised by the State Board of Education. Said Board is further authorized to administer all laws pertaining to libraries. 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District (1) Contract for service-Any school board may contract with the board of any approved county, city, or village public library to become a branch of said library and to receive therefrom library books for the school and the community, according to the standards established by the State Board of Education. In the event of such contract the school board may place in the public library such books belonging to the school libary as may be more useful for community use and shall pay annually to the library board, the school library book fund and the State library aid to which such school district is entitled. All books purchased by such public library from funds provided by the school district or State school library aid shall be selected from the State list for school libraries. A librarian who meets the standards of the State Board of Education shall be employed; school and library board may jointly employ such librarian who may spend her time partly in the school and partly in the library. (2) Maintenance of public library-In cities and villages of less than 2,000 people, not levying a tax for library purposes, the school board may maintain a public library for use of all the residents of the district and may house the library in the school building. In any independent school district embracing any such village, where a library building has been erected with funds donated for library purposes the school district may levy an annual tax of not less than three mills, the proceeds of which tax shall be used for the support and maintenance of said library and shall be known as the library fund. In case the library building has been erected with funds acquired by gift or donation the school board is empowered to appoint a library board of nine members of which each member of the school board shall be a member ex officio. Said library board shall adopt rules for the government of the library and shall have exclusive control of the expenditures. All moneys received for such library fund shall be kept in the school district library and all books and other property belonging to the library shall be held in the name of the school district. MINNESOTA STATUTES, 1927, vol. 1, secs. 2963, 30153021, and 5658-5660; 1938 SUPPLEMENT TO MINNESOTA STATUTES, 1927, vol. 3, secs. 2900-6 and 2950-1; and LAWS OF 1935, ch. 288. 1. Procedures for Establishment Mississippi (a) District-Public free schools may raise voluntary contributions for libraries. See 2 (a) and (b). (b) County-See 2 (b). (c) State-Law silent. 2. Financial Support (a) District—Any free public school wishing to receive county funds for a library must raise by subscription or otherwise not less than 10 dollars. (b) County-When a free public school raises not less than 10 dollars for a school library, "the superintendent of education of the county where such subscription is raised may issue his certificate for a like amount not exceeding 25 dollars in favor of such school, to be paid out of the common school fund of that county; but in no case shall the amount given by the county in any one year exceed 250 dollars; provided, that no school shall receive a second donation from the school library fund for library purposes so long as there are new applications from schools that have not been supplied." (c) State-Law silent 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District-One of the duties of trustees of municipal separate school districts is to enforce the rules prescribed for the government of school libraries. (b) County-The county superintendent of education (hereinafter called county superintendent) shall name two first-grade teachers, who together with the county superintendent shall constitute a county library commission. This commission shall make rules and regulations governing the use of libraries in the county and shall name a local manager of each library who shall make a report yearly to the commission of all books purchased during the year and of the money on hand at the time of the report, together with the amount expended for library purposes. The county superintendent shall keep a list of the books purchased by the several libraries in his county and make a library report biennially to the State superintendent of public education. (c) State See previous paragraph. 4. Books (a) District (1) Selection-Duty of trustees of municipal separate school districts to exclude from school libraries all books or papers of a sectarian, partisan, denominational, or immoral character. (2) Care-Public free schools raising funds for libraries to match with county funds for the same purpose "shall furnish suitable bookcases with lock and key." (b) County-One of the duties of the county library commission is "to name a list of books suited for school libraries." See 3 (b). (c) State-Law silent 5. Librarians (a) District-Trustees of municipal separate school districts are authorized to appoint librarians. See 3 (b). (b) County-Law silent (c) State Law silent NOTE.-State Board of Education is authorized to set up rules for the issuance of certificates, and to administer said rules through the State Board of Examiners. Librarians in accredited high schools are required to hold academic degrees from standard colleges and have training in library science. The amount of library training varies with the size of the school in which the librarian is employed. (Accredited High Schools and Colleges. By E. R. Jobe, State Department of Education, Bulletin No. 92, 1937-1938, Jackson, Miss. p. 9.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-Law silent (b) County-Law silent (c) State The State Library Commission, when asked, shall give advice to schools as to the best means of establishing and maintaining libraries, the selection of books, cataloging, and other details of library management. It may operate traveling libraries and circulate them among schools. 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District-Any school district may contract for school library service from any existing library, such service to be paid for from funds available to the school district. (b) County Board of supervisors of any county "authorized, in its discretion, to appropriate not to exceed 3,000 dollars a year towards the support of public libraries, including circulating school libraries in said |