Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-26
LIBRARY LEGISLATION
Present Legislature Has Done Much
For the Library Interests Of
Iowa.
The Trewin School Library Law
One Of the Most Important
Enacted.
1t Affects Every District in the
State-Review Of Library
Legislation.
,eeial to T';mes-Republican.s


school library bill has passed both
houses and will be in operation July 4, /
1900. 1t is one of the most important
bills passed by this legislature, affecting
as it does every school district in the
state and making it mandatory that
every school shall have a library. State
structions for the working out of the
new law for which he has iaot,i;sll earn
estly ever since coming into office. The
bill as passed is as follows:
section L. The treasurer of each
school township and each rural indepen-
| dent district in this state shall withhold
ANNUALLY from the money received from
1.-The appointment for the several school
ltdistricts. not less than . nor more than
| 10 cents, as may be ordered by the
board. fol. each person of school age re-
I siding in each school corporation as
| shown by the annual report of the sec
4 rotary for the purchase of books as
/ hereinafter provided. When so ordered
/ by the board of directors, the provisions
of this section shall apply to any indie
pendent district.
Sec. .. Between the third Monday of
i September and the first day of Deem
! Der in each year the president and sec
! rotary of the board, With the assistance
4 of the county superintendent of schools.
shall eXpend all money withheld by the
Ytreasurer as provided in section one Cd
E, of this act. in the purchase of books sa-
4 lected from the lists prepared by the
i state board of educational examiners as
hereinafter provided, for the use of the
\ school district: in school townships the
y secretary shall distribute the books thus
4 selected TO the librarians among the
several sub-districts. and at least semi
y Annually collect the same and distribute
Others.
Sec. 3. 1t is hereby made the duty of
the state board Of educational cxamin-
4 ers TO prepare annually or biennialy
lists Of books suitable for use in school
4 district libraries. and furnish copies of
such lists 10 each president, secretary
and each county superintendent, as Oft
en- as the same shall be published or re-
vised, from which lists the several pres
dents and secretaries and county super
intendents shall select and purchase
books.
Sec. a. 1t shall be the duty of each
secretary TO keep in a record book, fur
lnished by the board of directors. a COM
pete record of the books purchased and
distributed by him.
Sec. >. Unless The board of director!
shall elect some other person, the secre
'tary in independent districts and direc
r tor in sub-distrcts in school townships
shall act as librarian and shall receiS,
land have the care and custody OF tn,
books, and shall loan them to teachers
I; tpupls and other residents of the dis
!. istrict in accordance with the rules anc
!. i.regulations prescribed by the state
! board of educational examiners ane
. board of directors. Each librarian shall
keep a complete record of the books in {
: record book furnished by the board o.
directors. 1t is further provided tina
during the periods that the school is j,
session the library shall be placed in tn
. school house and the teacher shall b.
!, responsible to the district for its prope
Z care and protection. The board of d
: rectors shall have supervision of al
+ books and shall make an equitable dis
: tribution thereof among the schools o
i the corporation
This has been great session for Ii
5 brary legislation. More has been don
:, for library interests by this general as
: senbly than all previous legislatures il
!, Iowa put together. First. there was tn
:, consolidation of the library and the his
ltorical department. whereby the mis-
lcellaneous books in the state library vii
be removed to the new historical build
ing soma time after the first of mex
!. January. and the consolidated depart
If nlents placed under one head, that c
4 the state librarian. who will continu
n to be johnson Brigham. Charles Aid
j. rich, curator of the historical depart
l. ment, will continue in his present posi-
y ton of usefulness as editor of The An
,r nais of Iowa and the manager CT TIL
III museum and the distinctly historics
d work of the department This will leav
d the law library, which is one of the bes
in the country, in full possession of tn
Z, lpresent state library room in the stat
n house. The new historical building fun
~ ;1:shcs q much more modern and pract
cal library room. The books Will /
more accessible and better arrange,
This bill, which has passed both house
and been approved by the governo
rs raises the salary of the state libraria
{ from 81 200 To $4,000 and that of the Gu
1t ator of the historical department frol
TT 81, 200 to $1,000, and adds several thoi
he sand dollars per year to the support
I'd the consolidated department.,
y The appropriations committees ha,
Id recommended an appropriation of $21,o
h, to finish and furnish the historic
of building. and $4,000 to provide for
st large amount of printing and bindir
to and other work which Mr.. .Aldrich d.
Id sires to have done.
rs An appropriation of $1,000 addition
ne for the support of the State Historic
1T Society has passed both houses and II
IS governor has signed it. This is for Il
s. purpose of additional publications al
as cataoging and classifying the Iowa Gil
ne collection, putting, it into the new &C
legiate building of the university al
making it available for students evel
day
!. The library commission bill we
= thru without opposition. 1t was SUI
:. posed it would meet with the bitter O
;. position directed against thefcreation
:. all commissions, but such was not Il
: case 1t provides that the state libra
: ian. the president of the State Univa
=. sity, state superintendent of public i
=. struction and four others to be appoin
ed by, the governor, at least two
whom must be women. shall constitu
the state library commission. This cor
mission is TO encourage the establis
n ment of Libraries in small towns. No