Page:Library Legislation - Yust - 1921.djvu/16

 # Documents and exchanges
 * 1) * 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.
 * 2) Protection
 * 3) * Impose penalties for theft, mutilation, over-detention, and disturbance.
 * 4) Permanence
 * 5) * Provide that a public library may be abolished in the same manner that it has been established.
 * 6) Central library agency
 * 7) Name and place. Provide a comprehensive name and suitable quarters. Preferably (name of state) library commission with quarters in the state house.
 * 8) Commissioners. Five members to be appointed by the governor, one each year for a term of five years; to serve without salary.
 * 9) Organization. Mention officers and employees and their duties. Secretary not a member of the commission and trained in library work.
 * 10) Appropriation. Provide for an appropriation commensurate with the needs and resources of the state.
 * 11) 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