Title 24, EDUCATION

(a) Designation.--The State Librarian shall designate four Statewide library resource centers to be located at the following places: (1) Free Library of Philadelphia. (2) Pennsylvania State Library. (3) Pennsylvania State University Library. (4) Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. (b…

(a) Designation.--With the approval of the advisory council, the State Librarian shall designate up to 30 libraries throughout this Commonwealth as district library centers which may include: (1) any local library; (2) any State college library; (3) the Pennsylvania State Univers…

(a) Vote on library tax; approval.--The qualified voters of a municipality shall determine at a special election whether to establish an annual special library tax on all taxable property of the municipality for the establishment of, maintenance of and aid to a local library unde…

(a) Purchase or lease of real property.--A municipality may acquire lands and buildings for local library purposes by the: (1) purchase, setting apart or lease of lands and buildings or parts of buildings already owned by the municipality; (2) erection of buildings; or (3) altera…

(a) Establishment prohibited in certain cases.--If a locality maintains a library that is not part of the direct service area of a county library, no county library may be established or maintained and no county library tax may be imposed unless, prior to establishment of any lib…

(a) Board of library directors.--The following shall apply: (1) A local library established under this chapter or the former act of June 14, 1961 (P.L.324, No.188), known as The Library Code, shall be governed exclusively by a board of library directors as follows: (i) Except as …

(a) Categories of personnel.--The State Librarian shall certify library personnel according to the following categories and with the following qualifications: (1) Library assistants shall have two years of college education in addition to in-service library training. (2) Provisio…

(a) Interlibrary cooperative programs.--The State Librarian shall provide financial support for the development and maintenance of cooperative programs from funds appropriated to the State Library for the purpose of: (1) Supporting interlibrary cooperative programs. (2) Promoting…

(a) General rule.--A local library shall comply with standards under this chapter and regulations promulgated under this chapter regarding hours of operation, staffing, continuing professional development, collections expenditures and any other standards related to library operat…

(a) Triggering event.--If the Commonwealth appropriation for libraries in any fiscal year is less than that provided in the immediately preceding fiscal year, upon application by the board of directors of the local library, the State Librarian may waive standards under this chapt…

(a) Establishment.--A system of State aid to assist in the support and maintenance of local libraries, county libraries, library systems, district library centers and Statewide library resource centers is established. (b) Aid available to any local library or library system.--Sub…

(a) Regular financial effort required.--To qualify for quality libraries aid, a local library or library system shall make a minimum financial effort of $5 per capita for each person residing in the municipalities that will be part of the direct service area in which the library …

(a) Regular financial effort required.--To qualify for incentive for excellence aid, a local library or library system shall make a financial effort greater than $5 per capita for each person residing in the municipalities that will be part of the direct service area in which the…

(a) Eligibility.--The following libraries shall be eligible for equal distribution grants: (1) Each district library center which, in its capacity as a local or county library, has a population in its local or county direct service area that is 12% or less of the population of th…

(a) General matching rule.--In the case of a county library or library system in a county of the second through eighth class, State aid shall be given in an amount measured by the amount appropriated by the county government from county moneys and shall be determined as follows: …

(a) Eligibility.--Any library designated by the State Librarian to serve as a district library center shall qualify for an additional amount of State aid under this section. (b) Allocation method.--The following shall apply: (1) The amount of aid to be paid to each district libra…

(a) Eligibility.--Any library designated by the State Librarian to serve as a Statewide library resource center shall qualify for additional State aid under this section. (b) Allocation method.--The allocation shall be divided equally among the libraries so designated. (c) Powers…

(a) Eligibility.--A local library or library system shall qualify for equalization aid if it: (1) Achieves or exceeds applicable basic standards. (2) Maintains or exceeds its financial effort of the preceding year. (3) Is supported by a municipality that is economically distresse…

(a) General rule.--If necessary, the department may transfer funds among the allocations found in section 9333(e) (relating to State system of aid to libraries). (b) Exception.--The aggregate amount transferred into or out of each allocation during a fiscal year shall not exceed …

(a) Fiscal year 1999-2000.--State aid to libraries for fiscal year 1999-2000 shall be calculated as follows: (1) Quality libraries aid shall be allocated from the amount resulting from the addition of the following: (i) A hold-harmless amount equal to the amount allocated under s…

(a) Allocation.--For eligible fiscal years up to and through the 1998-1999 fiscal year, 25% of the Commonwealth's total annual appropriation for the system of State aid established under section 9333 (relating to State system of aid to libraries), or a minimum of 25¢ per capita f…

(a) Allocation.--For eligible fiscal years up to and through the 1998-1999 fiscal year, 25% of the Commonwealth's total annual appropriation for the system of State aid established under section 9333 (relating to State system of aid to libraries), or a minimum of 25¢ per capita f…

(a) Municipalities empowered to support libraries.--The municipal officers of a municipality may establish a local library or aid in the maintenance of a local library established by deed, gift or testamentary provision for the use of the residents of the municipality through: (1…

(a) Authorization.--The residents of a municipality may raise a fund equal to or exceeding the gross amount of a three-mill tax on taxable property in the municipality by popular subscription. (b) Acceptance by municipality.--If the fund raised by popular subscription is offered …

(a) Power to hold property.--A municipality or corporation that owns or manages a local library may take and hold real or personal property for library purposes. (b) Transfer of title.--A person wishing to donate books, money or real or personal property for the benefit of a loca…

(a) Residents and taxpayers.--Each library established or maintained under this chapter shall be free for the use of the residents and taxpayers of the municipality in which it is located. (b) Nonresidents.--The board of library directors may extend library privileges to persons …

(a) Exemption from local taxes.-- (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the following shall be exempt from county, city, borough, town, township, school, bounty, poor or head taxes: (i) A building owned and occupied by a local library. (ii) The land on which a local library stands. (iii)…

(a) Documents depository libraries.--The State Librarian shall designate State document depository libraries to receive Commonwealth publications. (b) Collection and distribution.--The Department of General Services shall direct each department, board, commission or agency of the…

(a) Counseling by State Librarian.--The powers and duties of the State Librarian relating to counseling local libraries in the selection of resources of books and other materials contained in section 9311(b)(6)(ii) (relating to State Library and State Librarian) shall not restric…

Records of the following institutions which relate to the circulation of library materials and contain the names or other personally identifying information of users of the materials shall be confidential and may not be made available to anyone except by a court order in a crimin…

(a) Offenses defined.--A person who willfully cuts, mutilates, marks or otherwise injures a book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, manuscript, map or other property of or on deposit with any of the institutions under subsection (c) shall, upon conviction, be subject to the same pen…