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MANUAL OF LIBRARY ECONOMY
- General
- State the purpose of a public library broadly and place its claim to support on the same basis as that of the public school.
- Make possible the maintenance of loan, reference, and reading-room branches, and other agencies for book distribution, museum, lecture, and allied educational features.
- Establishment
- Authorize the governing body of any city, town, county, school district, or other political body that has power to levy and collect taxes to establish and maintain a public library for the free use of all the people. Require it to do so on favorable vote of a majority of those voting on the question at any election.
- Provide that on petition of 25 or 50 taxpayers the question of establishment, rate of tax and bonds shall be decided by vote of the people at a general or special election, to be changed only by another vote.
- Provide for joint establishment and maintenance by neighboring political bodies.
- Prescribe the mode for changing the form of organization of an existing library to conform to the new law.
- Authorize a special tax or bonds to provide rooms, land, or buildings.
- Provide for keeping as a separate fund the moneys appropriated and received for library purposes and for placing them entirely under the control of the library board.
