Federal Aid for Library Service in Rural Areas: Hearings, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, May 25-27, 1955U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - 268 pages Considers (84) S. 205, (84) H.R. 1753, (84) H.R. 2804, (84) H.R. 2813, (84) H.R. 2858, (84) H.R. 2861, (84) H.R. 2865, (84) H.R. 2971, (84) H.R. 2803, (84) H.R. 2806, (84) H.R. 2817, (84) H.R. 2840, (84) H.R. 2856, (84) H.R. 2860, (84) H.R. 2870, (84) H.R. 2871, (84) H.R. 2881, (84) H.R. 2883, (84) H.R. 2885, (84) H.R. 2891, (84) H.R. 2978, (84) H.R. 3004, (84) H.R. 3012, (84) H.R. 3147, (84) H.R. 3310, (84) H.R. 3331. |
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... extension division _ _ _ Page 59 116 139 , 143 Brownell , Dr. S. M. , United States Commissioner of Education__ . Brownson , Hon . Charles B. , a Representative in Congress from the State of Indiana__ Bull , Mrs. F. L. , on behalf of ...
... extension division _ _ _ Page 59 116 139 , 143 Brownell , Dr. S. M. , United States Commissioner of Education__ . Brownson , Hon . Charles B. , a Representative in Congress from the State of Indiana__ Bull , Mrs. F. L. , on behalf of ...
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... extension division , Indiana State Library- 259 214 Chapman , Gilbert W. , representing the National Book Committee__ 207 Chism , H. J. , president , and J. F. Shubert , vice president , Nevada Library Association_ . 254 Church , J. G. ...
... extension division , Indiana State Library- 259 214 Chapman , Gilbert W. , representing the National Book Committee__ 207 Chism , H. J. , president , and J. F. Shubert , vice president , Nevada Library Association_ . 254 Church , J. G. ...
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... Extension Division , State of New York- . Oboler , E. M. , past president , Idaho Library Association - - Operating expenditures per capita for local library service .. Parker , J. W. , secretary , Connecticut Library Association ...
... Extension Division , State of New York- . Oboler , E. M. , past president , Idaho Library Association - - Operating expenditures per capita for local library service .. Parker , J. W. , secretary , Connecticut Library Association ...
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... extend their services to the million people in Mississippi without books to read . Fully aware are we of the professional , educational , and social responsibility for the welfare of all our people . This will give us the means to live ...
... extend their services to the million people in Mississippi without books to read . Fully aware are we of the professional , educational , and social responsibility for the welfare of all our people . This will give us the means to live ...
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... extension of library service in Louisiana , I can speak with conviction on the merits of the library program in my State . I have seen firsthand in my own home parish of Evangeline the benefits of library service to the rural people ...
... extension of library service in Louisiana , I can speak with conviction on the merits of the library program in my State . I have seen firsthand in my own home parish of Evangeline the benefits of library service to the rural people ...
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27 million 84th Congress adequate library service American Library Association appropriation Arkansas Barry Bingham believe better bookmobile bookmobile service Breathitt County budget cents per capita Chairman citizens communities Congress Coon county libraries D. C. DEAR demonstration Education and Labor expenditures farm favorable Federal aid Federal funds Federal Government give GRAHAM GREEN GWINN House of Representatives HUSSEY interest Kentucky legislation legislature librarians library agency library commission library extension library facilities Library Services Act library services bill library system live Louisiana METCALF Michigan Monroe County Nation North Carolina operating opportunity organization percent PHIL LANDRUM present President problem public library service question record referred to follows regional library RICHARDS Robsion rural areas rural population served services in rural South Dakota stimulate subcommittee Thank tion town United Washington West Virginia
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Page 51 - 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 the...
Page 127 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 47 - Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the purposes of this title. (b) The Board shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection (a...
Page 207 - ... the one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is the moral worth and intellectual clearness of the individual citizen. Education cannot give these, but it may cherish them and bring them to the front in whatever station of society they are to be found; and the universities ought to be, and may be, the fortresses of the higher life of the nation.
Page 74 - For making surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding public, school, college, university, and other libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library service'; . coordinating library service on the national level with other forms of adult education; developing library participation in Federal projects; fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials' among the more scholarly libraries, inter-State library cooperation, and the development of public, school, and...
Page 79 - States of any such funds lost or diverted from the purposes for which paid; (3) provide policies and methods of administration to be followed in using any funds made available for expenditure under the State plan, which policies and methods the 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...
Page 51 - Act. (b) The Commissioner is also authorized to make such studies, investigations, and reports as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act, including periodic reports for public distribution as to the values, methods, and results of various State demonstrations of public library services undertaken under this Act.
Page 176 - 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 rural areas without such services or with inadequate services...
Page 4 - Governor of each state, to the President of the Senate of the United States, to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, to the...
Page 166 - The administration of public libraries, the selection of personnel and library books and materials and, insofar as consistent with the purposes of this Act, the determination of the best uses of the funds provided under this Act, shall be reserved...