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MANUAL OF LIBRARY ECONOMY
- Documents and exchanges
- Provide for distributing all publications of the state free to public libraries and for exchange of books and duplicates by public libraries among themselves and with the state central agency.
- Protection
- Impose penalties for theft, mutilation, over-detention, and disturbance.
- Permanence
- Provide that a public library may be abolished in the same manner that it has been established.
- Central library agency
- Name and place. Provide a comprehensive name and suitable quarters. Preferably (name of state) library commission with quarters in the state house.
- Commissioners. Five members to be appointed by the governor, one each year for a term of five years; to serve without salary.
- Organization. Mention officers and employees and their duties. Secretary not a member of the commission and trained in library work.
- Appropriation. Provide for an appropriation commensurate with the needs and resources of the state.
- Scope of work. To furnish information, give advice and assistance to existing libraries of a public nature, and to assist communities to establish them; manage the state library and make it the center of the library activities of the state; receive gifts; maintain traveling libraries; publish lists of books; establish standards of organization and of service; conduct institutes and schools for librarians and issue certificates
