West Virginia Code § 18-5-20

School libraries; librarian
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The board may provide libraries for its schools and may purchase books, bookcases, and
other things necessary therefor, and shall pay the cost of such libraries out of school funds
of the county. In connection with any such school library, the board may employ a full-time
librarian or may require one of the teachers at the school to serve as a part-time librarian.
Any such full-time librarian or any such teacher-librarian, who holds a degreee in library
science based upon the successful completion of a full year of graduate work at an
institution qualified and approved to offer such degree, and who holds ra collegiate
elementary, first-class high school, or other certificate of equal rank, shall be paid the same
salary as is prescribed by law for teachers holding a master's degree.
The board shall have authority to employ during the vacationt period a librarian for any
school having a library of one hundred or more volumes, and to pay such librarian out of the
school funds of the county an amount to be determined by the board. Any librarian so
appointed shall keep the library open at least one day a week, at which time the patrons and
pupils of the school may draw books from the library under such rules and regulations for
the care and return thereof as the board may sprescribe.

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