Section 21 Powers of committee.C1

The F1library authority or museum and art gallery authority, as the case may be, shall manage, regulate, and control all libraries F2or museums or art galleries established under this Act, or to which this Act applies; and shall have power to do all things necessary for such management, including the following powers; that is to say,

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• To purchase books, newspapers, reviews, magazines, and other periodicals, statutary, pictures, engravings, maps, specimens of art and science, F4gramophone records, tape recordings and films and such other articles and things as may be necessary for the establishment, increase, and use of the libraries or museums or art galleries under their control, and to do all things necessary for keeping the same in a proper state of preservation and repair:

• To provide from time to time the necessary fuel, lighting, and other matters:

• To sell or exchange any books, works of art, or other property of which there may be duplicates, provided that the money arising from such sale, and the property received in exchange shall be applied and held for the purposes of this Act:

• To provide suitable rooms in the libraries within which the books, periodicals, and newspapers may be read:

• To lend out, F5to inhabitants of the area of the authority the books of any library under their control, or such of them as they may consider proper; and at their discretion to grant the same privilege to the inmates of industrial schools, training ships, reformatories, barracks, and other similar institutions established for or in the area; and also to any person carrying on business within the limits of the area, or to any employee engaged in employment therein, although such person or employee . . . F6 may not reside within such limits:

• To compile and print catalogues of all or any books, articles, and things in the libraries or museum or art galleries under their control, and reports of their proceedings, and to sell the same, the proceeds to be applied for the purposes of this Act.