2. Financial Support (a) District-Trustees of each school district shall expend annually for library 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District-Law silent (b) County-Law silent (c) State It shall be the duty of deputy superintendents to inspect school buildings, libraries, etc. 4. Books (a) District-Books purchased with county school funds allocated to districts shall be approved by the State superintendent of public instruction. See 2 (a). The State Board of Education shall "adopt lists of books for district libraries; provided, that boards of trustees in districts of the first class may make additional adoptions; and provided further that such books shall not contain or include stories in prose and poetry whose tendency would be to influence the minds of children in the formation of ideals not in harmony with truth and morality." (b) County-Law silent (c) State-See (a). 5. Librarians-Law silent NOTE. The statutes provide that all teachers' certificates and life diplomas shall be granted by the State Board of Education and said board shall grant only those classes and grades of certificates described in the law. The law does not include a class for school librarians. The State Department of Education reports that while training in library work is not required by law it is the practice to require such training of teachers performing library duties. (Correspondence, State Department of Education, Feb. 7, 1939.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District The State librarian shall have prepared an author-and-subject catalog of all books in the miscellaneous department of State library. Said catalog shall contain also rules and regulations relating to said library and shall be sent to every school library in the State of Nevada. Any school district, through application of the teacher or principal or a member of the board of trustees, may borrow for a period of 12 weeks, not to exceed 12 books at any one time. (b) County-Law silent (c) State-See (a). 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District-Any school district may establish a free public library when authorized to do so by a majority of the taxpayers of the district. The tax for the establishment of such library shall not be less than 5 nor more than 10 cents on each 100 dollars valuation of taxable property in the district. The district school trustees shall appoint a board of library trustees whose duty it shall be to establish and administer said free public library for the benefit of all the people of the district. (b) County County boards of education, when notified by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, that a county library has been established, shall appoint a board of three library trustees. In counties in which there are no county boards of education, said library trustees shall be appointed by the county commissioners. Whenever a new public county library shall be provided for in any county having a population of 15,000 or more persons, the trustees of any school district library in said county previously established are authorized to transfer all books, funds, and other property in the possession of such trustees to said new library, upon demand of the trustees of the new library. (c) State Law silent STATE OF NEVADA, THE SCHOOL CODE, 1935, secs. 5590-5594, 5596, 5599, 5653, 5660, 5801, 5802, 7103, and 7105; and ch. 4. New Hampshire 1. Procedures for Establishment-Law silent 2. Financial Support-Law silent 3. Administration and Supervision-Law silent 4. Books (a) District (towns and districts organized by special acts of legislature)—Persons found guilty of defacing books or other propery belonging to any “law, school, college, town, or public library" or wilfully detaining any book or other property of such library for more than 30 days after notice in writing to return the same are subject to fine or imprisonment. (b) County (No county unit for school and library purposes) (c) State-Law silent 5. Librarians-Law silent NOTE. The State Board of Education is authorized to prescribe the qualifications of all employees of the public schools. Librarians in junior and senior high schools are required to have training in library work. (Regulations Governing the Approval of Superintendents, Headmasters, Principals, and Teachers in the Public Schools of New Hampshire. Concord, N. H., State Board of Education, 1938, p. 14.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District (towns and districts organized by special acts of the legislature)— See (c). (b) County (No county unit for school and library purposes). (c) State The State Library Commission may circulate traveling libraries to schools. 7. Relationships With Public Libraries-Law silent LAWS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE RELATING TO PUBLIC 1. Procedures for Establishment New Jersey (a) District-Authorized to raise funds for school libraries. See 2 (a). (b) County Authorized to raise funds for pedagogical libraries. See 2 (b). (c) State Shall supplement funds raised locally for the establishment of school district libraries and county pedagogical libraries. See 2 (a). 2. Financial Support (a) District-Any public school situated in a school district for which there has been raised by special district tax, subscription, or entertainment the sum of $20 to establish a school library, or to procure books of reference, school apparatus, or educational works of art shall receive a like amount from the State, and if $10 is raised annually for the maintenance of the said library the State will contribute a like amount. See (c) (1). (b) County Whenever in any county there shall have been raised by subscription a sum of not less than $100 for the establishment of a pedagogical library for the use of the teachers of the public schools, the State will contribute $100. Annually thereafter there shall be paid by the State a sum of not less than $50 nor more than $100, upon condition that the county raises a like sum annually by subscription for the maintenance of the library. See (c) (2). (c) State (1) School district libraries-The State Comptroller shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer upon the order of the Public Library Commission in favor of the custodian of the school moneys of a school district for the sum of $20 for any public school in the district for the establishment of a library, or to procure books of reference, school apparatus, or educational works of art, provided a like amount is raised locally; and the sum of $10 annually for the maintenance of such library, provided a like amount is raised locally. See (a). Does not apply in instances in which the county library and the local board of education have entered into an agreement whereby the county library shall furnish library service to the schools. See 7 (b). (2) Pedagogical library-The State will contribute $100 for the establishment of a pedagogical library and not less than $50 nor more than $100 annually for its maintenance provided like amounts are raised locally. See (b). 3. Administration and Supervision (a) District-Each school district may, in the manner provided for making appropriations for the current expenses of the school, appropriate such sums as may be necessary for the proper care and management of any library established in part by State funds. See 2 (c) (1). (b) County-The county superintendent of schools and three teachers of public schools in the county appointed by him shall constitute a committee to make rules and regulations for the management, use, and safekeeping of pedagogical libraries purchased in part with State funds. See 2 (c) (2). (c) State 4. Books (1) Regulations-The Public Library Commission shall adopt rules and regulations for the organization, management, use, and safekeeping of libraries purchased in part with State funds. (2) Consolidation of libraries of district-"In any school district in which there is more than one schoolhouse, or in which there is maintained a public library, the Public Library Commission may consolidate and establish in one place the school libraries in the district". (a) District-Books purchased in part with State funds set aside for the establishment and maintenance of school district libraries shall be approved by the Public Library Commission. (b) County-Books purchased in part by State funds for the establishment and maintenance of county pedagogical libraries shall be selected by a committee composed of the county superintendent of schools and three teachers of public schools in the county appointed by him. (c) State-See (a). 5. Librarians-Law silent NOTE.-The State Board of Education is authorized to make and enforce rules and regulations for the examination of teachers and the granting of licenses to teach. Said Board has ruled that any person serving as a librarian and "director of studies" in libraries of elementary or secondary schools shall have training in library science. The meaning of the term “director of studies" as used in the certification regulations is: "(1) General library service in the school library; (2) organized teaching in the use of the library; (3) organized teaching of procedures in use of reference material; and (4) reference investigation and report for classroom teachers in the several departments of the school curriculum." (Rules concerning Teachers' Certificates, 1937, Trenton, New Jersey State Board of Education, p. 23; and correspondence, State Department of Education, Feb. 20, 1939.) 6. Relationships With State Library Agencies (a) District-School libraries established and maintained in part by State funds shall be managed in accordance with rules established by the Public Library Commission and books shall be approved by said commission. See 2 (a). Said commission may also consolidate school libraries of a district. See 3 (c) (2). (b) County-See 7 (b). (c) State The State commissioner of education is ex officio a member of the Public Library Commission. Said commission shall be reimbursed for expenses involved in administering State aid for school libraries, but no expense shall be incurred until an appropriation therefor shall be made by the legislature in the annual appropriation act. See 3 (c) (1). 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District (1) Library trustees-One ex officio member of the board of trustees of a municipal free public library shall be a school official. (2) Library use of school buildings-The board of education of any school district may, subject to reasonable regulations adopted by said board or upon notification by the commissioner of education, permit the use of any schoolhouse or rooms therein, when not in use (b) County—If, by agreement between the local board of education and the NEW JERSEY SCHOOL LAWS, 1938, secs. 18: 2-4, 18: 5-22, 18: 12-4 to 18: 12-9, 18: 13-120, 18: 13121, and 40: 54-9. New Mexico 1. Procedures for Establishment-Law silent 2. Financial Support-Law silent 3. Administration and Supervision-Law silent 4. Books (a) District "No teacher shall use sectarian or denominational books in the NOTE. -The State Board of Education is authorized "to certificate teachers according to law and the prescribed classification of said board.” No special regulations have been adopted by the State Board of Education for the certification of school librarians. (Correspondence, State Department of Education, Feb. 15, 1939.) 6. Relationships with State Library Agencies (a) District-See (c). (b) County-Law silent (c) State State Library Extension service may circulate books among schools, and cooperate with the extension directors of the State educational institutions. 7. Relationships With Public Libraries (a) District-See following paragraph (b) County "The governing board of any municipal school district may include in its estimate for school maintenance a request for an allowance for the support of free public library service available to the residents of the county in cooperation with other library agencies. The county board of education is also authorized to include a similar request in the estimates for the county administration fund. Upon presentation of satisfactory evidence of the desirability and need of such allowance or allowances, the school budget commissioners are hereby authorized to |