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CHAPTER XVI

Library Commissions

The rapid development of public libraries
in the United States led the several states to
establish library commissions These commis-
sions are charged with the duty of promoting
library interests within the state. This they
do by aiding in the establishment and better
organization of the public libraries, by super-
vising them, extending financial or other aid
when needed, and by other means such as
instituting travelling libraries, and school
and institutional libraries.
In the small urban community, for exam-
ple, the library income, where a library does
exist, is generally limited and the service as
a rule is inexperienced. Since such small
communities in all of the states vastly out-
number the larger cities, the field for work
with them is rather extensive. Furthermore,
in the smaller town that wealth of private and
public educational agencies of various kinds
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