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made for the President's Advisory Com-
mittee on Education.
A.L.A. Sponsorship
The principle of federal aid endorsed
by A.L.A. Council, May, 1936. Action
assigned to the Executive Board. Report
on Library Service prepared by C. B.
Joeckel for the Advisory Committee on
Education in behalf of the A.L.A. Recom-
mendations of Advisory Committee in-
cluding grants for libraries endorsed by
Executive Board, March, 1938. Support of
legislation assigned to A.L.A. Federal Re-
lations Committee in consultation with
the President and Secretary.
What You Can Do
Every librarian, trustee and friend of li-
braries should give the bill the strongest
possible support.
Secure a copy of the bill from your Sen-
ator or Representative.
Write to the President, to the Senate
and House Committees on Education,
and to your Senators and Representatives,
urging passage of bill at this session.
Urge influential laymen to do likewise.
Urge organizations to pass resolutions
of endorsement and transmit them to their
Congressmen.
Watch the progress of the legislation
and write or wire influential Congressmen
at critical times.
UNIVFRSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES
Proposed Grants to States
PRIMARILY FOR RU RAL LIBRARY SERVICE
ALLOCATED ON BASIS OF RURAL POPULATION”
State 1939–40 1940–41 1941-422
Total .................... $2,000,000 || $4,000,000 || $6,000,000
Alabama.................... 68,962 137,924 206,886
Arizona...................... 10,360 20,720 31,080
Arkansas 53,358 106,716 160,074
California.................. 54,991 109,982 164,973
Colorado.................... 18,706 37,412 56,118
Connecticut.............. 17,227 34,454 51,681
Delaware................... 4,178 8,356 12,534
Florida....................... 25,687 51,374 77,061
Georgia...................... 72,989 145,978 218,967
Idaho......................... 11,440 22,880 34,320
Illinois....................... 72,333 144,666 216,999
Indiana..................... 52,307 104,614 156,921
Iowa.......................... 54,085 108,170 162,255
Kansas....................... 41,739 83,478 125,217
Kentucky................... 65,829 131,658 197,487
Louisiana.................. 45,978 91,956 137,934
Maine........................ 17,256 34,512 51,768
Maryland................... 23,809 47,618 71,427
Massachusetts.......... 15,163 30,326 45,489
Michigan................... 55,847 111,694 167,541
Minnesota................. 47,366 94,732 142,098
Mississippi................ 60,587 121,174 181,761
Missouri.................... 64,186 128,372 192,558
Montana................... 12,929 25,858 38,787
Nebraska.................. 32,337 64,674 97,011
Nevada...................... 2,052 4,104 6,156
New Hampshire....... 6,969 13,938 20,907
New Jersey................ 25,457 50,914 76,371
New Mexico.............. 11,476 22,952 34,428
New York................. 74,914 149,828 224,742
North Carolina......... 85,585 171,170 256,755
North Dakota........... 20,578 41,156 61,734
Ohio........................... 77,568 155,136 232,704
Oklahoma................. 57,084 114,168 171,252
Oregon....................... 16,825 33,650 50,475
Pennsylvania............ 112,323 224,646 336,969
Rhode Island............ l 3,776 5,664
South Carolina......... 49,590 99,180 148,770
South Dakota............ 20,375 40,750 61,125
Tennessee................. 6 124,730 187,095
Texas......................... 124,561 249,122 373,683
Utah.......................... 8,759 17,518 26,277
Vermont.................... 8,733 17,466 26,199
Virginia..................... 59,330 118,660 177,990
Washington.............. 24,614 49,228 73,842
West Virginia........... 44,877 89,754 134,631
Wisconsin................. 50,224 100,448 150,672
Wyoming................... 5,637 11,274 16,911
District of Columbia -
Alaska....................... 416 832 1,248
American Samoa...... 365 730 1,095
tland......................... 315 630 945
Hawaii....................... 6,673 13,346 20,019
Puerto Rico.............. 40,489 80,978 121,467
Virgin Islands.......... 309 618 927
* Number of persons living in towns and villages of less than
2,500 population and in the open country in 1930 is used.
* This grant is to be continued for the succeeding 3 years.
FEDERAI, AII]
FIIH LIHRAHIEF

INCLUDED IN THE BILL FOR
FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION
S. 1305 (Senators Harrison, and Thomas of Utah)
H.R. 3517 (Representative Larrabee)
PURPOSE OF THE BILL

“To promote the general welfare
through appropriation of funds to
assist the states and territories in
providing more effective programs
of public education.”
“To assist in equalizing educa-
tional opportunities . . . to main-
tain local and state initiative and
responsibility.”
The bill contains provisions of
the greatest importance to library
development in every state.
1939
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(131 cation (Reeves report) was transmitted to
Congress. In April, the Harrison-Thomas-
Fletcher Bill embodying its recommenda-
tions was introduced, reported favorably
by the Senate Committee on Education
and Labor, and placed on the Senate cal-
endar. In the House, it was still in Com-
mittee when Congress adjourned in June,
1938. The intent of the bill is greatly clari-
fied and criticisms met in revisions made
since then.
In 1939, in the 76th Congress, Senators
Harrison, and Thomas (of Utah) and Rep-
resentative Larrabee sponsored the revi-
sion, now known as S. 1305 and H.R.
3517.
State Control of Funds Assured
GRANTs are to be administered by state
agencies: rural library grants by the state
library administrative agencies “concerned
with the extension and development of
library service;” school and adult educa-
tion grants by the state departments of
education.
Plans for use of funds are to be filed in
Washington but will not be subject to dis-
cretionary approval by any federal official.
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vides for grants of $2,000,000 for 1939-40,
$4,000,000 for 1940-41, and $6,000,000
for each year thereafter through 1945,
primarily for rural library service. To be
allotted to states and territories on basis of
rural population. Administration by state
library agency with staff appointed on
merit basis. Purpose: to provide integrated
library service throughout the state and to
equalize educational opportunity as far as
feasible. -
SCHOOL LIBRARY SERVICE (including
maintenance of school libraries and pur-
chase of books and other reading mate-
rials, and library rooms in school build-
ings) is specified in Title I as among the
purposes for which grants for the improve-
ment of elementary and secondary educa-
tion may be apportioned.
TRAINING FOR ScHOOL LIBRARIANs is
specifically included in provision in Title I
for training educational personnel through
grants to be made available to public train-
ing institutions.
ADULT EDUCATION. Libraries are spe-
cifically named as agencies which may
share in grants for adult education author-
ized in Title II, and adult education in-
cludes “facilities for self-education.”
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Title IV for surveys and demonstrations
looking toward the best utilization of the
grants.
Libraries Need Federal Aid
LIBRARIES ARE ESSENTIAL IN A DEMOC-
RACY. And yet 45,000,000 people in the
United States—most of them rural people
—have no public libraries within reach,
and are deprived of this basic means of
education.
INEQUALITIES BETWEEN STATES in abil-
ity to provide educational services, ac-
count, in a large measure, for the variation
in expenditures for public library service
from 2C. per capita in two states to over
$1.00 per capita in one state. Only federal
funds can lessen these inequalities in op-
portunities for self-education.
“Without federal aid, the establishment
of a national minimum standard of library
service is quite simply and literally impos-
sible. Only by the united efforts of local,
state and Federal governments can the
ideal of a nationally adequate program of
library service be approached. The final
result should be a cooperative partnership
in library development in which the Fed-
eral Government shares responsibility with
the states and the local units.”—From a
study, Library Service, by C. B. Joeckel,