city or city and county board of education fail to file request in writing for library fund, the city or city and county superintendent shall apportion to the library fund such amount, not in conflict with law, as he may deem advisable. (2) Teachers' library-The superintendent of each county, or city and county, is authorized to spend from unapportioned State elementary and high-school funds such amounts as may be necessary for the purchase of books and maintenance of a county teachers' library. 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District (1) Library fund-See 2 (a). (2) Care-School trustees of a district maintaining its own library shall (3) Ownership marks-District board shall cause each book in the (4) Community service Libraries controlled by district boards of (b) County (1) Library fund-See 2 (c) (1). (2) Approval of orders-County superintendents must approve orders for library books drawn on library fund by school district trustees in their respective counties; such orders must be accompanied by an itemized bill of the books and apparatus. (c) State State Board of Education (hereinafter called State Board) shall make rules for the administration of the library. See (a) (2). 4. Books (a) District (1) Selection and purchase-Boards of school trustees and city boards of education must expend the library fund, together with such moneys as may be added thereto by donation, in the purchase of school apparatus and books for a school library, including books for supplementary work. Such books and apparatus shall have been selected from list adopted by county or city and county boards of education. See 2 (a) and (c) (1). Boards of school trustees and city boards of education have power to exclude from schools and school libraries all books, publications, or papers of a sectarian, partisan, or denominational character. (2) Care See 3 (a) (3). Whoever wilfully detains a book or other property belonging to any public library or "educational institution" is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished accordingly. (3) Use See 3 (a) (4). (b) County "County boards of education have power to adopt a list of books and apparatus for district school libraries." (c) State-Law silent. 5. Librarians (a) District (1) Selection-School trustees of a district maintaining its own library shall have power to appoint a teacher or other proper person librarian of the district library. (2) Duties The librarian appointed by school trustees (see preceding paragraph) shall manage the library as efficiently as possible, and whenever expedient request the advice and assistance of some person experienced in the art of managing libraries. (3) Teacher status-No librarian shall be employed for more than two hours a day in any elementary or secondary school, unless such librarian holds a valid secondary school certificate or a special teacher's certificate in librarianship of proper grade granted in accordance with law. Such librarians when employed full time as librarians or serving full time, partly as librarians and partly as teachers, shall rank as teachers. (b) County County boards of education have power to grant special certificates "authorizing the holders to serve as a librarian or to teach in the schools of the county such branch or branches of learning and in such grades as are named in such certificate." (c) State (1) Certification-State Board shall have power and it shall be its duty to prescribe regulations established in accordance with law for the qualifications upon which county, and city and county boards of education may grant certificates "to act as school librarians." The minimum general standard for credentials for librarians shall be the same as other special credentials for like grade. NOTE. The State Board has prescribed regulations governing special secondary credentials in librarianship (Regulations Governing Granting of Credentials and Certificates for Public School Service in California. Sacramento, Calif., State Department of Education, Bulletin No. 12, 1935. p. 33). (2) Retirement-With the exception of certain persons excluded from membership (Sec. 5.841, School Laws, 1937) the following persons shall be members of the retirement system-"Librarians employed full time in elementary and secondary schools, or who serve full time partly as librarians and partly as teachers." 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-Law silent (b) County Law silent (c) State State library a division of State Department of Education. 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District (1) Contract-"In any city conducting a public library owned and managed by such city, the board of school trustees, or city board of education of such city may enter into an arrangement with the governing body of the public library of said city similar to the arrangement" given in (b) County, first three paragraphs. (2) Public library-Any union high school library, district may establish, equip, and maintain a free public library, for the dissemination of a knowledge of the arts, sciences, and general literature, in accordance with the provisions stated in the law. (b) County-Whenever the county in which a district is situated shall maintain a county library, the board of trustees or city board of education may agree with the proper authorities of such county to make the school library a branch of the county library. If so agreed, the board of trustees or city board of education shall turn over books and other property of the school district to the county library, and shall annually transfer to such county library its library fund as soon as it is available. Said county library shall thereafter make such district library a branch of the county library, managed and maintained according to the rules and regulations established by the authorities of the county library. The school district library fund transferred to the county library "shall be used by the county library only for the acquisition of such books and other materials as may have been adopted by the body authorized to adopt courses of study for the school districts of the county and for the care and distribution of such books and other materials to school libraries which are branches of the county library. The county librarian may at his discretion dispose of books and other materials no longer fit for service and may with the approval of the county board of education dispose of any books or other materials no longer needed for the course of study." The high-school board of any high-school district lying wholly or partly within a county maintaining a county free library shall have power to enter into a contract with the board of supervisors of said county, whereby said high-school district may secure the advantages of said county free library, upon such terms as may be fixed by upon the contract. or more County superintendent of any county maintaining one elementary schools may, if the county maintains a county library, enter into agreement with the proper authorities of such county to establish a branch county library in each of such schools. Such agreement may provide for the payment by the county superintendent to the proper authorities for the use of the county library from the unapportioned county elementary school fund of such moneys as may be agreed upon, all moneys so transferred to be used solely by the county library authorities for the purchase of such books and other material as may have been adopted by the county board of education for the care and distribution of such books and other materials to school libraries which are branch county libraries. (This provision applies to emergency elementary schools which are maintained by the superintendent and not by a school district. Correspondence, State department of education, April 4, 1940.) (c) State-Law silent SCHOOL CODE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1937, secs. 2.1450, 5.130-5.139, 5.150, 5.460-5.461, 5.840 (c), 6.500-6.502, 6.510-6.512, 6.520-6.522, 6.530, 6.532-6.535, 6.540-6.544, 6.550-6.555, 6.560-6.562, 6.570-6.580; PENAL CODE OF CALIFORNIA, 1937, sec. 6232; and LAWS OF 1939 RELATING TO THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, secs. 4.196 and 6.531. Colorado 1. Procedures for Establishment (a) District-Any school board may request county commissioners to make levy for special fund for books for a library. (b) County-See preceding paragraph. (c) State Law silent 2. Financial Support See 2 (a). (a) District-Any school district board may include an item for the purchase of books for a library to be open to the public, in certified statement to county board of supervisors, showing amount which in the judgment of school board it is necessary to raise from taxable property of district to create a special fund for such purpose, provided the levy shall not exceed one-tenth of one mill on the taxable property of the district and the money so accruing therefrom shall be used for the purpose of such library and for no other purpose whatsoever. (b) County-See preceding paragraph. (c) State-Law silent 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District (1) Community service-School district libraries established by special (b) County-See preceding paragraph. (c) State 4. Books Report mentioned in (a) (2) shall be made upon blanks prepared by the State superintendent of public instruction (hereinafter called State superintendent.) (a) District (1) Selection-"Every school board unless otherwise especially provided by law, shall have power and it shall be their duty . . . to exclude from school and school libraries, all books, tracts, papers, and other publications of an immoral or pernicious tendency." (2) Use School district libraries open to public. See 3 (a) (1). (b) County--Law silent. (c) State State superintendent shall have laws relating to public schools printed in pamphlet form and annexed thereto forms for making reports and conducting school business and shall supply copies to school libraries. 250617°-41-5 5. Librarians (a) District-Law silent (b) County-Law silent (c) State-Law silent NOTE. Special certificates to teach subjects and to perform duties authorized by boards of education, but not covered by certificates otherwise provided by law, may be issued by the State superintendent or by a county superintendent of public schools under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the State Board of Examiners. The State Department of Education reports that no requirements for special library certificates have yet been standardized by the State Board of Examiners, but that school librarians who are able to qualify for the Graduate Temporary Certificate secure this certificate, which is valid for teaching any subject in any school in the State of Colorado. (Correspondence, March 21, 1939.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-Law silent (b) County-Law silent (c) State All rights, powers, and duties of former Colorado Library Commission now exercised by the State library under the Department of Education. The State superintendent is ex-officio librarian for the State. 7. Relationships with Public Libraries (a) District Governing body of a library of a school district wholly or partly within the county may contract with county library board for use of all or part of library's facilities on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, which shall include service from such county library, but which shall not include, without proper consent of the reversioner, any such charge of use of its real estate as would cause its title or right in or to such real estate to be forfeited or in jeopardy of reversion, but having such reversioner's consent in proper care and when otherwise lawful so to do without or upon permission of its voters it may sell or convey any of its rights and interests in real estate or library to said board for such free county library purpose. (b) County County superintendent of public schools ex officio a member of county library board. Said board may contract with any school district, wholly or partly within the county, for furnishing library service to the extent and upon such terms as may be agreed upon. (c) State-Law silent STATUTES SCHOOL LAWS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, 1933, 1. Procedures for Establishment Connecticut (a) District (towns and cities)-Towns or school districts shall raise funds by taxation to supplement State grant for a school library or other suitable educational material. See 2 (a). (b) County (No county unit for school and library purposes) (c) State-Law silent |