Library Services: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S.205, a Bill to Promote the Further Development of Public Library Service in Rural Areas, and H.R. 2840, an Act to Promote the Further Development of Public Library Service in Rural Areas. May 23, 1956U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 77 pages Considers legislation to authorize Federal aid to states for development and improvement of rural library systems. |
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... in their approach to libraries as to other matters . They have different his- tories , and they are in different stages of development . It would be most unfortunate to try to establish an overall pattern into 14 LIBRARY SERVICES.
... in their approach to libraries as to other matters . They have different his- tories , and they are in different stages of development . It would be most unfortunate to try to establish an overall pattern into 14 LIBRARY SERVICES.
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... establish an overall pattern into which each State would have to fit . In many cases the State plan will include the organization of local and county libraries into larger units . I will have more to say about that a little later on ...
... establish an overall pattern into which each State would have to fit . In many cases the State plan will include the organization of local and county libraries into larger units . I will have more to say about that a little later on ...
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... established in the neighborhood . In addition to serving the needs of the people , it has successfully demonstrated the value of a good library to them and to the community . I doubt that they wil ever again want to be without the ...
... established in the neighborhood . In addition to serving the needs of the people , it has successfully demonstrated the value of a good library to them and to the community . I doubt that they wil ever again want to be without the ...
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... establish regional library centers at key points where there are now large , unserved populations . These libraries would be staffed with professionally trained librar- ians who know the needs of the people and how to serve them most ...
... establish regional library centers at key points where there are now large , unserved populations . These libraries would be staffed with professionally trained librar- ians who know the needs of the people and how to serve them most ...
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... established in the neighborhood . In addition to serving the needs of the people , it has successfully demonstrated the value of a good library to them and to the community . I doubt that they will ever again want to be without the ...
... established in the neighborhood . In addition to serving the needs of the people , it has successfully demonstrated the value of a good library to them and to the community . I doubt that they will ever again want to be without the ...
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27 million adequate library service adults allotment American Library Association believe bookmobile capita income Chairman citizens Commissioner communities county libraries D. C. DEAR SENATOR DEAR SENATOR MURRAY demonstration development of public Education Subcommittee established expenditure favorable Federal aid Federal funds Federal library services Federal share fiscal George Aiken Hancock County hearings improve inadequate services JAMES E Jersey June 30 Labor and Public legislation librarians library administrative agency Library Commission library facilities library services bill library systems LISTER HILL Massachusetts Library Association MCDONOUGH Nation opportunity passage percent president promote the further public library service Public Welfare Committee regional library rural areas rural library service Senate bill 205 Senate Labor Senator AIKEN Senator HILL Senator JAMES Senator SMITH SEPIN services to rural Sincerely South Dakota statement stimulate tion towns United States Senate urban urge Washington Wiscon
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Page 7 - ... shall notify such State agency that further payments will not be made to the State until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State.
Page 4 - State for such period. The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Commissioner, the amount so certified. (c) For the purposes of this Section the "Federal share...
Page 6 - 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 6 - 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 75 - ... 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 6 - State for any prior period under such section was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State for such prior period under such section.
Page 4 - 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 4 - Federal share' for any State shall be 100 per centum less 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 6 - United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce.
Page 4 - 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...