DIVISION OF LIBRARY EXTENSION.

Helen M. Clark, Director
400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore Telephone: Mulberry 6580.

The Division of Library Extension is a central library agency,
under the immediate supervision of a Director, appointed by the
State Board of Education on nomination by the State Superintendent
of Schools (Code 1947 Supp. Art. 77, sec. 163)..

Librarians of the Division work throughout the State to improve
and develop libraries. They meet and talk with groups of citizens who
are interested in library service for counties, towns, schools and
state institutions. They visit libraries and advise librarians, library
trustees, teachers and administrators. Guidance in library organiza-
tion, book selection, budgets, personnel and community relations is
also given..

Residents of counties served by county libraries, or cities and towns
served by public libraries, may get these services through their local
libraries, but any one or any group within the State and outside the
City of Baltimore may borrow in person or by mail..

The State Superintendent of Schools authorizes the payment to
the County Board of Library Trustees of any county in which a
library is established, those funds subject to its order to which the
county and the library may be entitled, and such funds are added to
the Public Library Fund. All money levied or appropriated is used for
current operations of the county library and not for the purchase of
land, the erection of buildings, or for debt reduction. In order to
extend these benefits to the several political subdivisions of the State,
not more than $5,000 is made available to any one political sub-
division of the State..

STATE TEACHERS COLLEGES.

Earle T. Hawkins, President, State Teachers College, Towson
Lillian C. Compton, President, State Teachers College, Frostburg
J. D. Blackwell, President, State Teachers College, Salisbury
William E. Henry, Jr., President, State Teachers College, Bowie.

The four State Teachers Colleges provide for training of elementary
and junior high school teachers. In 1931, the General Assembly in-
creased the teachers course to three years, and in 1934, the State
Board of Education extended the course to four years. Junior Col-
leges were inaugurated at the State Teachers Colleges in September,
1946..

The staffs of the State Teachers Colleges are as follows; 57 at
Towson, 32 at Frostburg, 29 at Salisbury, and 25 at Bowie. The en-
rollments are as follows: 620 at Towson, 235 at. Frostburg, 163 at
Salisbury, and 148 at Bowie..

Publications: Directory of School Officials and Teachers of.

Maryland, 1946.

Supplement to the Public School Laws of Maryland, 1946
Maryland High School Equivalence Certificate, 1946.

Maryland's Program of Vocational Rehabilitation for Dis-
abled Persons, 1946.