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(3) The metropolitan cooperative services programs shall make
an annual report of their operations to the State Department of
Education and the Maryland Advisory Council on Libraries.

(4) The budget request of the State Department of Education
for the fiscal year 1972 and each year thereafter shall MAY include an
amount determined by the State Department of Education to be
necessary for the operational budgets of the metropolitan cooperative
services programs. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 124 OF THIS ARTICLE SUCH AMOUNTS AS ARE
PROVIDED FOR ANNUAL OPERATING COSTS OF METRO-
POLITAN COOPERATIVE SERVICES PROGRAMS SHALL BE
BE SUBJECT TO ANNUAL REVIEW AND APPROPRIA-
TIONS BY THE GOVERNOR AND THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY.

(c)    The State Department of Education shall receive and au-
thorize the payment to regional resource centers and metropolitan
cooperative services programs of funds subject to their order and
these funds shall be added to the public library fund. The State
Department of Education shall require that all funds be used subject
to any conditions specified by the appropriating agency or imposed
consistently with this section.

The State Department of Education shall MAY authorize the Comp-
troller of the Treasury to withhold State funds from any regional re-
source center or metropolitan cooperative services program which
fails to perform the services necessary to comply with the standards
and criteria of the State Department of Education.

(d)    The State Department of Education shall make periodic
studies and evaluations of the effectiveness of the services performed
by regional resource centers and metropolitan cooperative services
programs and shall request such other reports and information as
may be necessary TO COMPLETE SUCH EVALUATIONS.

169.

State Resource Center

(a) In order to provide continued and expanding access by the
citizens of Maryland to specialized library materials and services

available only at the Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free

Library System, such materials and services being vital to educational
endeavors and necessary for coordinated, economical and efficient
library services in Maryland, the General Assembly hereby declares

the Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library System to be

the State Library Resource Center.

     (b) The State Department of Education shall include in its

annual budget an amount based on fifty percent (50%) of the

operating cost incurred at Pratt Central Library during the second

fiscal year preceding the fiscal year being budgeted to provide

specialized research and reference materials and services for the
whole State beyond the level supported in the current expense portion

of the cooperative program provided under Section 176. Any appro-

priation for the specialized research and reference materials and

services shall be paid quarterly to the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore upon certification by the State Superintendent of Schools

and shall be utilized only for the purposes described in this Section.