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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... reading facilities , for these older members of our society . Mr. Chairman , what is the situation in the United States today with regard to library service ? I have at my left my colleague , Dr. Ralph Dunbar , a member of the staff of ...
... reading facilities , for these older members of our society . Mr. Chairman , what is the situation in the United States today with regard to library service ? I have at my left my colleague , Dr. Ralph Dunbar , a member of the staff of ...
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... reading material that children need . In fact , one of the great advances in modern education has been just that . We do not use one textbook any longer , out of which the student learns everything about a particular subject . We use ...
... reading material that children need . In fact , one of the great advances in modern education has been just that . We do not use one textbook any longer , out of which the student learns everything about a particular subject . We use ...
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... reading - and that is several hundred - specifi- cally prohibits the Commissioner of Education or any other agent of the Federal Government from determining the policies and prac- tices of education or , in this case , library service ...
... reading - and that is several hundred - specifi- cally prohibits the Commissioner of Education or any other agent of the Federal Government from determining the policies and prac- tices of education or , in this case , library service ...
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... reader . Mr. Chairman , if I were asked what was perhaps the essential element of American democracy and of American greatness , I would say that that element was probably equality of access to educational facilities , initial ...
... reader . Mr. Chairman , if I were asked what was perhaps the essential element of American democracy and of American greatness , I would say that that element was probably equality of access to educational facilities , initial ...
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... reader unless he has a local inter- mediary , namely his local librarian . Just to give you an example of this , we do a rather large business in the Library of Congress in the way of interlibrary loans . We don't lend to individuals ...
... reader unless he has a local inter- mediary , namely his local librarian . Just to give you an example of this , we do a rather large business in the Library of Congress in the way of interlibrary loans . We don't lend to individuals ...
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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...