NOTE. Said Board has set up requirements for teacher-librarians in high schools. (Special Subject Certificates, Circular 62a, Des Moines, Iowa, Board of Educational Examiners, Mimeographed.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-Law silent (b) County-Law silent (c) State State superintendent of public instruction, is an ex-officio member of the board of trustees of the Iowa State Traveling Library, the Iowa State Department of History and Archives, the Iowa State Law Library, and the Iowa State Medical Library. The trustees shall operate traveling libraries and circulate books to schools and other institutions named in the law, free of cost except for transportation. 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District (1) Contract-Board of directors of any school corporation in which (b) County Contract-See preceding paragraph. (c) State-Law silent. CODE OF IOWA, 1939, ch. 221 and 234.1; also secs. 231, 3858.1, 4238, 4330, 4391, 5859-5861, and 13189. Kansas 1. Procedures for Establishment (a) District-See 2 (a). (b) County-Law silent (c) State-Law silent 2. Financial Support (a) District "School-district board or board of education of each school district," shall expend annually from the general funds in its possession a sum of not less than 5 dollars; provided that in all schools employing more than one teacher the amount expended shall not be less than 5 dollars for each teacher employed. (b) County—Law silent (c) State-Law silent 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District "School-district board or board of education of each school district" shall have power to make such rules and regulations regarding the management of the library as they shall deem best; they are further authorized to revise the rules from time to time as the necessities of the case require. Officers of common school districts are authorized to make such rules and regulations relating to the district library as they deem proper; on their visits to schools they shall inquire into matters relating to the library and other facilities and make such suggestions as will promote the interest and efficiency of the school. (b) County Law silent (c) State-Law silent 4. Books (a) District-Money derived as indicated in 2 (a), shall be used under the direction of the district board for purchasing a school-district library and for no other purpose. The board in the purchase of books "shall be confined to works of arithmetic, geography, history, literature, biography, travel, science, and two monthly school journals, one to meet the needs of the primary classes and the other the more advanced and general needs." The books selected shall be approved by the State superintendent of public instruction. (b) County-Law silent (c) State-See (a). 5. Librarians (a) District-The district clerk shall be the librarian, unless the board of directors shall appoint some other competent and suitable person who shall reside in the district and perform the duties of that office. (b) County Law silent (c) State-Law silent NOTE. The State Board of Education is authorized to make rules and regulations regarding the certification of teachers. The Board does not require librarians to hold librarian's certificates. It has, however, gone on record as urging administrators of Class A high schools to meet not later than September 1, 1943 a requirement that high-school librarians have academic qualifications equivalent to those required of teachers in such schools, and that the qualifications of librarians include not fewer than 8 semester hours of college credit in library science. (Correspondence, State Board of Education, Dec. 17, 1938.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies-Law silent 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District-Board of directors of a county library may contract with any school district in an adjacent county for the purpose of furnishing library service to said school district. (b) County-Law silent (c) State-Law silent SCHOOL LAWS OF KANSAS, REV. 1937, sec. 100, 269, 280, 630, 631 and 632; GENERAL STATUTES OF KANSAS 1935, sec. 19-1704. Kentucky 1. Procedures for Establishment-Law silent 2. Financial Support-Law silent 3. Administration and Supervision-Law silent-See 6 (c). 4. Books (a) District "No books or other publications of a sectarian, infidel, or immoral character shall be used or distributed in any common school of the Commonwealth. (b) County-Law silent (c) State-See 6 (c). 5. Librarians (a) District-Law silent (b) County-Law silent (c) State-Law silent NOTE. The laws provide that the certification of all superintendents, principals, teachers, supervisors, attendance officers, and other administrative, supervising, or instructional employees shall be vested in the State Board of Education. Among the special certificates provided by the State Board of Education are certificates for full-time school librarians. (Organization and Administration of Teacher-Education. Educational Bulletin, Frankfort, Ky., State Department of Education, 5:42-43, January 1938.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-See (c). (b) County-Law silent (c) State The State Library Commission is authorized to give assistance, advice, and counsel to all schools and other agencies which may propose to establish libraries as to the best means of establishing and administering them, selecting and cataloging books, and other details of library management, and may send any of its members to aid in organizing such libraries or assist in the improvement of those already established. 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District-See following paragraph (b) County (1) Contracts-Fiscal courts of counties containing a population of over 200,000 wherein is located a city of the first class may contract with board of trustees of free public library of any such city for the pur pose of granting to the residents and schools of such county the same privileges afforded by such library to residents and schools in said city. The fiscal court is authorized to make such contracts and may appropriate annually a certain sum of money to the maintenance and support of such library to be paid out of the county levy funds in its hands. (2) County public library board-County superintendent of schools shall appoint two members, one of whom shall be a woman. (c) State-Law silent. secs. KENTUCKY COMMON SCHOOL LAWS 1934. 4363-11 and 4502-1; CARROLL'S KENTUCKY STATUTES ANNOTATED 1936-secs. 938d-1 and 2801c-1. 1. Procedures for Establishment Louisiana (a) District.-When the patrons and friends of "any individual school 1 or grade of a free public school" in which a library has not been established raise the sum of $10 for the establishment of a library, the parish board shall appropriate a like sum for the same purpose from the publicschool funds. Likewise, if the patrons and friends of a school in which such a library has been established raise the sum of $5 for its enlargement, the board shall appropriate not less than $5 nor more than $15 for the same purpose." (b) County (Parish) -See previous paragraph. (c) State-Law silent 2. Financial Support (a) District-See 1 (a). (b) County (Parish) -See 1 (a). (c) State-One source of State revenue for the support of the public common schools of elementary and secondary grades in Louisiana is the severance tax. The Constitution says: "The residue of the severance tax fund of the State, after allowing funds and appropriations as provided for by the Constitution or laws of the State; which severance tax fund shall be devoted, after allowing such funds and appropriations, first, to supplying free school books; second, to supplying free school supplies, such as library books, pencils and ink, writing paper, pens, ink and the like, to the school children of the state . . .” 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District-See 1 (a). (b) County (Parish) —See 1 (a). (c) State See 6 (c). 4. Books law. (a) District-See 1 (a). (b) County (Parish) 3—See 1 (a). (c) State School library books furnished free to the school children of the State as provided in the Constitution shall be distributed to them through the State Board of Education. See 2 (c). Since with few exceptions the parish is the local district in Louisiana, the term "school" is used in the As the State Department of Education reports this law, which has not been repealed by the legislature, is inoperative, data regarding the administration of the funds, selection of books, and librarians are omitted in this digest. (Correspondence, State Department of Education, March 21, 1940.) The parish in Louisiana corresponds to the county in other States. NOTE.-The Constitution provides that the State Board of Education shall prescribe the qualifications and provide for the certification of teachers of elementary, secondary, trade, normal, and collegiate schools. The State Board of Education has adopted requirements in library science for full- and part-time librarians in both white and Negro high schools. [Certification of teachers (White), 1938, Bulletin 370, p. 12-13, and Certification of teachers (Negro), 1939, Bulletin 397, p. 11-13. Baton Rouge, La., State Department of Education] 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-See (c). (b) County (Parish) —Law silent (c) State-The State Library Commission is authorized to give advice to all schools and other institutions named in the law regarding the best means of establishing and administering libraries, selecting and cataloging books, and other details of library management. It may send its members to assist in the improvement of libraries already established. It may also cooperate with the State Board of Education in devising plans for the care of school libraries, in aiding teachers in school library administration, and in formulating rules and regulations governing the use of such libraries. Such suggestions, rules, and regulations for school libraries are to be promulgated through the State superintendent of schools. 7. Relationships With Public Libraries-Law silent FIFTEENTH COMPILATION OF SCHOOL LAWS, 1936Constitution Art. XII, secs. 7 and 14, Act 202 of 1906, pp. 57-60, Act 155 of 1936, pp. 425-28; and GENERAL STATUTES OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, 1932. Vol. 2, sec. 4458. Maine 1. Procedures for Establishment-Law silent 2. Financial Support-Law silent 3. Administration and Supervision-Law silent 4. Books (a) District (Town, city, or plantation) (1) Selection-Persons found guilty of introducing obscene literature into a "school or place of education" are subject to fine and imprisonment. (2) Care Persons found guilty of wantonly defacing books or other property belonging to any "educational institution" are subject to fine or imprisonment. (b) County (No county unit for school or library purposes) (c) State-See 6 (c). 3 The parish in Louisiana corresponds to the county in other States. |