REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR I917 IJ 



§ 1 13 1 Loans of books [collections] from state. Under such 

 rules as the Regents may prescribe, they may lend from the State 

 Library [museum] duplicate department, or from books [collections] 

 specially given or bought for this purpose, selections of books 

 [collections] for a limited time to any public library [museum] in 

 this State under visitation of the Regents, or to any community 

 not yet having established such library [museum], but which has 

 conformed to the conditions required for such loans. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1051, revised from former Con. Sch. L. (L. 1894, 



ch. 378) § 47. 



§ 1 132 Advice and instruction from State Library [museum] 

 officers. The trustees or librarian [director] or any citizen interested 

 in any public library [museum] in this State shall be entitled to ask 

 from the officers of the State Library [museum] any needed advice 

 or instruction as to a library building, furniture and equipment, 

 government and service, rules for [readers] selecting, buying, cata- 

 loging, [shelving] lending [books, or] any [other] matter pertaining 

 to the establishment, reorganization or administration of a public 

 library [museum]. The Regents may provide for giving such advice 

 and instructicn either personally or through printed matter and 

 correspondence either by the State Library [museum] staff or by a 

 library [museum] commission of competent experts appointed by 

 the Regents to serve without salary. The Regents may, on request, 

 select or buy books [collections], or furnish them instead of money 

 apportioned or may make exchanges and loans through the duplicate 

 department of the State Library [museum]. Such assistance shall 

 be free to residents of this State as far as practicable, but the Regents 

 may, in their discretion, charge a proper fee to nonresidents or for 

 assistance of a personal nature or for other reason not properly an 

 expense to the State, but which may be authorized for the accom- 

 modation of users of the library [museum]. 



Source. Education L. 1909, § 1042, revised from former Univ. L. (L. 1892, 

 ch. 378) § 48. 



§ 1 133 Apportionment of public library [museum] money. 



Such sum as shall have been appropriated by the Legislature as 

 public library [museum] money shall be paid annually by the treas- 

 urer, on the warrant of the comptroller, from the income of the United 

 States deposit fund, according to an apportionment to be made for 

 the benefit of free libraries [museums] by the Regents in accordance 

 with their rules and authenticated by their seal; provided, that none 

 of this money shall be spent for books [collections] except those 



