Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Part III · Chapter 45 — Supreme Court
§ 674. Librarian
Statutory text
The Supreme Court may appoint a librarian, whose salary it shall fix, and who shall be subject to removal by the Court.
The librarian shall, with the approval of the Chief Justice, appoint necessary assistants and fix their compensation and make rules governing the use of the library.
He shall select and acquire by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, such books, pamphlets, periodicals, microfilm and other processed copy as may be required by the Court for its official use and for the reasonable needs of its bar.
The librarian shall certify to the marshal for payment vouchers covering expenditures for the purchase of such books and other material, and for binding, rebinding and repairing the same.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Title 28, United States Code, section —
Pub. L. 80–646 · 62 Stat. 869
Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 674
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 919
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 919Pub. L. 92–310 title II § 206(d) · 86 Stat. 201
Struck · 28 U.S.C. § 674(d)
Pub. L. 92–310 struck out sentence which required the librarian to furnish a bond
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 92–310 struck out sentence which required the librarian to furnish a bond.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(d) The last sentence of section 674(d) of title 28. United States Code, relating to the bond of the librarian of the Supreme Court, is repealed.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
This section gives statutory recognition to the office of librarian. For many years the Court has appointed its librarian directly through the Chief Justice, rather than through the marshal. Other members of the library staff are appointed by the librarian, with the approval of the Chief Justice.
Under this section the marshal will not be required to certify to expenditures for some 2,000 books bought for the library each year but this will be the duty of the librarian.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1972—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 92–310 struck out sentence which required the librarian to furnish a bond.
Credits
1948–1972 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 919
- 1972Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 206(d), , 86 Stat. 203.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 919; Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 206(d), , 86 Stat. 203.)