Library Service in Rural Areas: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, on H.R.5195, a Bill to Promote the Further Development of Public Library Service in Rural Areas. Hearings Held at Washington, D.C., April 1 and 2, 1952U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - 87 pages |
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... adults , which as I said before Mr. Howell came in , is greatly needed because in spite of our wonderful educational system , the average education of our people over 25 years of age is less than 9 years . Also , as I said , with the ...
... adults , which as I said before Mr. Howell came in , is greatly needed because in spite of our wonderful educational system , the average education of our people over 25 years of age is less than 9 years . Also , as I said , with the ...
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... adult schools - 21 cents . Total , per capita $ 31.20 . Mr. GREENWOOD . Can you tell me if all the States do as they do in New York State , requiring their high school and other elementary schools to have a library of their own in their ...
... adult schools - 21 cents . Total , per capita $ 31.20 . Mr. GREENWOOD . Can you tell me if all the States do as they do in New York State , requiring their high school and other elementary schools to have a library of their own in their ...
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... adults the only free tax - supported opportunity to continue education throughout life . This is the American library tradition , and it is so because education for citizen- ship and personal development is the tradition of American ...
... adults the only free tax - supported opportunity to continue education throughout life . This is the American library tradition , and it is so because education for citizen- ship and personal development is the tradition of American ...
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... adult department . The objective is to serve the needs of boys and girls of diversified tastes , different backgrounds , hobbies , interests , at various age levels and to suit the various mental capacities of these ages . It is ...
... adult department . The objective is to serve the needs of boys and girls of diversified tastes , different backgrounds , hobbies , interests , at various age levels and to suit the various mental capacities of these ages . It is ...
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... adult lives may be richer , is the purpose of public library work with children . In order to achieve this purpose ... adults are separated into various subject departments . In children's rooms books must be near at hand . A child ...
... adult lives may be richer , is the purpose of public library work with children . In order to achieve this purpose ... adults are separated into various subject departments . In children's rooms books must be near at hand . A child ...
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Page 1 - Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified.
Page 1 - Administrator may find necessary. "(2) The Administrator shall then certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount so estimated by the Administrator for any period, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which he finds that his estimate for any prior period was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State...
Page 2 - United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce.
Page 2 - State plan approved under subsection (a) , finds that— (1) the State plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the provisions of subsection (a), or (2) in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any such provision...
Page 1 - State library administrative agency certifies will in its judgment assure use of such funds to maximum advantage in the further extension of public library services to areas without such services or with inadequate services...
Page 2 - Federal share" for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of...
Page 2 - public library" means a library that serves free all residents of a community, district, or region, and receives its financial support in whole or in part from public funds...
Page 2 - State educational agency shall not make further payments under this title to specified local educational agencies affected by the failure) until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied...