1706 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 980

(b) To provide a direct service of books, pamphlets, clip-
pings, and visual materials, and guidance in their use, to
individuals, groups, and schools;

(c) To provide a supplementary service of books, pamph-
lets, clippings, reading courses, and visual materials for the
libraries of the State;

(d) To encourage the development of library services
in State hospitals and institutions;

(e) To compile statistics and other facts on the status
of libraries, and to prepare and publish reports and
bulletins;

(f) To coordinate the library services covered by this
sub-title with other library and educational services and
agencies;

(g) To cooperate with the library agencies of other
States and with national library agencies;

(h) To give professional advice and assistance to all
county libraries, and to all other public libraries of the
State established or operating under this sub-title;

(i) To establish professional standards for any county
or other public library established or operating under this
sub-title.

(j) To perform all other duties necessary for the proper
operation of the library division.

166. (a) The Board of County Commissioners of any
county shall have power to establish and maintain county
public libraries for the purposes of this sub-title. Such
libraries shall in each instance be located in the county
seat, or in any place to be determined by the said Board,
with branch libraries and stations in such places within
the county as the Board of Library Trustees may deem
necessary. The County Commissioners shall levy a sum
in support of the library, as provided in sub-section (a)
of Section 167 of this sub-title.

(b) Any library, established and operating under this
sub-title, shall for the period during which it so operates,
offer free service to the residents of the county in which
it is located; provided, that the Board of Library Trustees
and the librarian shall have the right to make reasonable
rules and regulations for the use of the library and its facil-
ities and to extend the privileges and facilities of said
library to persons living outside of the county upon such
terms and conditions as said Board may from time to time
by resolution prescribe.

(c) The County Commissioners may, for the purposes
of this sub-title, acquire by gift, purchase, or condemna-
tion, real or leasehold property, and may erect thereon out
of specially appropriated funds, buildings for the use of