2. Financial Support (a) District District school boards "shall furnish their schools from the common school fund with fuel. . . library books and other apparatus for use in their schools; provided, that the sum expended for this purpose shall not exceed fifteen percent of the county school fund and the irreducible school fund apportioned to said district." (b) County-The county court of the several counties of this State having a population of fewer than 100,000 inhabitants are required to levy, at the same time they levy other taxes, a tax upon all the taxable property in their counties for school library purposes, which shall aggregate an amount not less than 10 cents per capita for each and all of the children within the county between the ages of 4 and 20 years, as shown by the preceding school census, which shall be collected at the same time as other taxes are collected and shall be known as the general school library fund of the county (hereinafter called general school library fund). Said fund shall be used for school library purposes only in the manner prescribed in the law. See preceding paragraph. (c) State Law silent 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District-Board of directors shall have supervision of all books purchased from the general school library fund and shall make an equitable distribution among the schools of the district. See 4 (a) (1). (b) County-The county school superintendent shall apportion the general school library fund to each district in the county, in proportion to the number of persons in each district over 4 and under 20 years of age, as shown by the last school census. When such apportionment has been made he shall notify the districts of their respective shares, and shall notify the librarian of the State Library of the money apportioned to each district, and the number of school children in each district. See 4 (b). (c) State The State Library is authorized to formulate and prescribe rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of the law, for the control and management of all school libraries purchased from the general school library fund. See preceding paragraph, and 4 (c) (1). 4. Books (a) District (1) Selection-The directors of each district and the county superintendent shall select the books purchased from the general school library fund from the lists prepared by the State Library. See (b). (2) Care-During the periods school is in session, the library shall be placed in the schoolhouse. Any person found guilty of wilfully or maliciously detaining any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, or manuscript belonging to a school district library beyond the time stated in the law, is subject to fine or imprisonment. Any person found guilty of wilfully defacing a book or other property belonging to a school district library shall be punished by fine or imprisonment. (3) Use The books in the school district library shall be loaned by the librarian to teachers, pupils, and other residents of the district in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the State Library. See 5 (b). (b) County-Between the first Mondays of April and May of each year the directors of each district and the county superintendent shall select from the lists prepared and furnished by the State Library such books as are desired for their respective districts, the aggregate mailing price of which shall not exceed the amount apportioned to such district from the general school library fund for the current year, and immediately upon making such selection, the county superintendent shall mail a copy of the list selected to the State Library. If the Library is not notified of such selection by the second Monday in May of each year, it shall make the selection for the district. The county superintendent shall make a complete record of the books purchased and distributed by him, together with the purchase price of said books. See following paragraph. (c) State (1) Selection-As soon as the State Library has obtained the list of books selected by the directors and the county superintendent [See (a) (1)] it shall order said books from the dealer or dealers who have agreed to furnish them at the lowest price. At the time of ordering the books the library shall notify the county superintendent of each county of the cost of the books for his county, including expense of transportation to each district. Upon the receipt of said notice each county superintendent shall draw a warrant for such amount and transmit the same to the library, which shall settle with the dealer or dealers for the books purchased. Upon delivery of the books, the library shall cause them to be distributed to the respective school districts according to the lists furnished by said districts. The State Library shall prepare annually lists of books suitable for use in school libraries and shall make rules regulating selections from such lists. Such lists shall state the retail and mailing price of each book, and said price shall be the lowest obtainable by the library from bids received from more than one responsible dealer. The library shall furnish county superintendents copies of such lists and rules, from time to time as issued, for distribution to school officers of their respective counties. 5. Librarians (a) District-Each librarian shall keep a complete record of the books furnished by the board of directors. When school is in session the teacher shall be responsible to the district for the protection and care of the libraries. See following paragraph. (b) County "The county superintendent shall appoint a librarian who shall ... have the care and custody of the books . . .” (c) State "The superintendent of public instruction may, at his discretion, issue a certificate, without examination, to teach classes for atypical children or to teach in any one or more of the following subjects: Library, music, art. which certificate shall entitle the holder to teach the subject therein named in any school in this State unless revoked for cause. The superintendent of public instruction, before issuing the same, shall receive satisfactory evidence of the applicant's fitness to teach the subject named in the certificate." NOTE. All certificates except temporary county certificates and certificates for teachers in districts having more than 100,000 population shall be issued by the State superintendent of public instruction. As rapidly as possible the high-school libraries of the State are being brought up to the standards recommended at the High School Principals' Conference of October 1932. These standards require training in library techniques for persons employed as librarians. (High School Standards, State Department of Education, Salem, Oreg., p. 6.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-See (c). (b) County-Law silent. (c) State The State superintendent of public instruction is an ex-officio trustee of the State Library. The Library 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 also circulate traveling libraries among schools, free of cost except for transportation, under such conditions as shall protect the interest of the State and the efficiency of the service it is expected to render to the public. It may further publish such lists and circulars of information as it shall deem necessary. See 3 (b) and (c); and 4 (a) (1) and (b) and (c) (1). 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District-Any school district may, through its board of directors, contract with boards of existing public libraries for library service for such school district, and may levy a special tax or appropriate money from its general funds or expend its library fund to meet the terms of such contract. (b) County-Any county library shall have the power to contract with school districts for library service. If there be in any county an incorporated city with a population and library facilities sufficient to enable it to claim exemption from county library tax, such free public library may, whether exempt or nonexempt from county library tax, become a contracting library for service to adjoining and tributary school districts if a majority of the voters of the district so agree. OREGON SCHOOL LAWS 1937, secs. 35-1102, 35-2502, 35-2531, 35-4401, 35-4404, 35-4412, 35-4416, 354421, 35-4428, 35-4429, and 35-4433 to 35-4440. Pennsylvania 1. Procedures for Establishment (a) District—The board of school directors in every school district may establish and maintain the following additional schools or departments for the education and recreation of persons residing in said district and for the proper operation of its schools, which said additional schools or departments, when established, shall be an integral part of the publicschool system in such school district, and shall be so administered, namely: High schools, manual training schools, . . . evening schools, kindergartens, libraries. Two or more school districts may unite in the establishment or maintenance of a joint public-school library. See 3 (a) (3). (b) County Law silent (c) State-Law silent 2. Financial Support (a) District-The board of school directors of any school district may annually appropriate for the support and maintenance of any public-school library in its district, out of its annual school taxes, such sums as it may deem proper, not exceeding one mill on the dollar of the total valuation of taxable property in the district, provided that when a library is first established, the board of school directors may provide for the building and establishment of such public library, or may provide for the enlargement of any library, in like manner as any public-school building may be built or enlarged. (b) County Law silent (c) State Law silent 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District (1) Management-In each school district of the second, third, or fourth class in which there now is or hereafter may be established a publicschool library, such library may be under the management and supervision of the school directors of such district or a board of seven library trustees, as the board of school directors may determine. The board of seven library trustees shall be as follows: Five, not members of the board of school directors, elected by majority vote of the board of school directors, from the school district at large, the president of the board of school directors, and the district superintendent; (if there be no district superintendent, the vice president of the board of school directors). (2) Rules The board of library trustees in any school district may, (3) Joint public-school library-Two or more school districts may unite (5) Branch libraries-The board of school directors or the library (6) Community use— -For the use and convenience of the residents of the district, the board of school directors or the library trustees shall provide for keeping public-school libraries open at such hours and times throughout the year as they may deem proper. The board of school directors of any school district maintaining a public-school library may permit the use thereof by the residents of other school districts, under such conditions as it may prescribe. (b) County-Law silent (c) State-Law silent 4. Books (a) District (1) Selection-No books or other matter shall be put into a public-school library, by gift or otherwise, without the approval of the library trustees or in lieu thereof, of the board of school directors. Board of school library trustees may purchase books. See 3 (a) (2). (2) Care Whenever by subscription, or otherwise, a collection of books, or funds to purchase the same, has been obtained for a public-school library for any district, or for any school therein, it shall be the duty of the board of school directors to provide a suitable place and case or cases for said library. (3) Title See 7 (b). (b) County Law silent (c) State-Law silent 5. Librarians (a) District (1) Selection-Board of library trustees may appoint a librarian. See 3 (a) (2). (2) Reports The librarians or trustees of all public-school libraries shall make reports to the State librarian and to the superintendent of public instruction at such times and in such manner as said officials request. (b) County-Law silent (c) State-Law silent NOTE. The State Department of Public Instruction shall have power to provide for and regulate certificates and the registration of persons qualified to teach. The State Department of Education has adopted regulations for the certification of school librarians. (Correspondence, March 1939.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-Librarians in charge of public-school libraries shall make reports to the State librarian. See 5 (a) (2). (b) County Law silent (c) State The State Library and Museum functions as a division of the Department of Public Instruction. The person in charge of the division is the State librarian, who is appointed by the State superintendent of public instruction. See (a). 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District (1) Aid for free public library-The board of school directors of any district may, by a two-thirds vote, join with or aid any individual or association in the maintenance, or the establishment and mainte |