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 on school library matters. A school library attains its maximum success only in closest co-operation with the public library, whether independently or jointly administered.

How it it supported?
By annual funds provided in the public school or public library budget; sometimes by state grants.

Many successful school libraries are administered as branches of public libraries. in all cases close co-operation with the public library is essential.

Where can I get more information about school libraries?
Write to the supervisor of libraries in your state department of education, to the secretary of your state library commission, or to the librarian of the state library at your state capital; or to the American Library Association, 78 East Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois.

"The school and the library, the teacher and the librarian. have come to occupy in these latter days a closer association of effort than was the case in the past. Tomorrow, they will be still more closely drawn together."—''John J. Tigert. U. S. Commissioner of Education.''

American Library Association, Chicago, Illinois