School Libraries

Miss. Code Ann. tit. 37, ch. 55
in effect

Miss. Code Ann. § 37-55-1 County library commission; annual library report.

The county superintendent of education shall name two first grade teachers who, together with the county superintendent, shall constitute a county library commission. It shall be the duty of this commission to name a list of books suited for school libraries, and all books purchased under this chapter shall be selected from this list. It shall be the duty of this commission to make rules and regulations to govern and control the use of such libraries in the county, and the commission shall name a local manager of each library who shall make a report every year to the county commission of all books purchased during the year, of the money on hand at the time of the report, together with the amount expended for library purposes. The county superintendent shall keep a list of books purchased by the several libraries of his county and make a library report to the state superintendent of education annually with the county school report.

Miss. Code Ann. § 37-55-3 Grants of aid to school libraries from school funds.

When any public free school in this state shall raise not less than ten dollars by subscription or otherwise for a library for such school, and shall furnish suitable bookcases with lock and key, the superintendent of education of the county where such subscription is raised may issue his certificate for a like amount not exceeding twenty-five dollars in favor of such school, to be paid out of the common school fund of that county. In no case shall the amount given by the county in any one year exceed two hundred and fifty dollars. No school shall receive a second donation from the school fund for library purposes so long as there are any new applications from schools that have not been supplied.

Miss. Code Ann. § 37-55-5 Appropriations by county boards of supervisors for support of libraries.

The board of supervisors of any county is authorized, in its discretion, to appropriate a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum towards the support of public libraries, including circulating school libraries, in said county. In counties where the enumeration of educable children is shown by the most recent census to be 10,000 or more, the board of supervisors may, in its discretion, appropriate an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars annually, towards the support of public or school libraries.

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