r. e. owen, government printer, wellington, new zealand—1958

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[Letter of Transmission] [3]
[Scientific, Technical, and Commercial Library Service] [3]
[Regional and District Library Service] [4]
[National Library Proposal] [5]
[Book Stock] [5]
[Request Service] [5]
[Expenditure] [5]
[Country Library Service] [6]
[Free Public Libraries] [6]
[Book Van] [7]
[Minimum Standards for Public Libraries Participating in the Country Library Service] [8]
[Independent Subscription Libraries] [9]
[Hamper Service] [9]
[Lighthouse Service] [9]
[Free Service to Ministry of Works, State Hydro-electric, and New Zealand Forest Service Camps and Stations] [9]
[Hospital and Institutional Library Service] [9]
[Loan Collections] [10]
[Periodicals Service] [10]
[School Library Service] [10]
[Loans to Smaller Public Libraries] [11]
[Information and Request Service] [11]
[Book List] [11]
[Assistance to Islands Schools] [13]
[Library School] [14]
[National Library Centre] [14]
[Inter-library Loan] [15]
[Central Bureau for Library Book Imports] [15]
[Libraries of Government Departments] [16]
[Book Resources Committee of the NZLA] [16]
[Union Catalogue] [16]
[Bibliographical Section] [16]

The Hon. the Minister of Education.

Wellington, 16 July 1958.

Sir,

I have the honour to submit the following report of the activities of the National Library Service. The report covers the work of the Service as a whole and its four divisions—Country Library Service, School Library Service, Library School, and National Library Centre.

The functions of the Service may be summed up as the provision of such assistance to any New Zealand library maintained directly or indirectly from public funds as circumstances and policy permit. More specifically, help is given by a lending service to rural, borough, and county libraries, by the provision of books for school libraries, by advancing professional training through the Library School, and by maintenance of records of all library holdings of books and periodicals, as well as other facilities and stock to aid the cooperative use of this material.