Abstract
The purpose of this study to investigate how the Joint Committee of the National Education Association and the American Library Association established the principles of school library service that school library service, being an essential part of the total school program is basically a responsibility of the board of education in its report, Schools and Public Libraries : Working Together in School Library Service, published in 1941. We studied documents of Joint Committee of the National Education Association and the American Library Association from 1931 to 1941 and compared drafts of Schools and Public Libraries. In 1930's the arguments that school libraries were wasteful duplication of public libraries arisen from changing economic condition. The Joint Committee made a plan to study fundamental relationships between schools and public libraries, and to formulate a statement of principles underlying school library service. The Joint Committee opposed the arguments and put forward the view that school library service is essential part of the school program and school library service is a responsibility of boards of education.
