 
                 CHAPTER 72--MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--LIBRARY SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY
 
                    Part 3--Administrative Provisions
 
                     subpart b--federal requirements
 
Sec. 9163. State and local initiatives

    Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to interfere with 
State and local initiatives and responsibility in the conduct of library 
services. The administration of libraries, the selection of personnel 
and library books and materials, and insofar as consistent with the 
purposes of this subchapter, the determination of the best uses of the 
funds provided under this subchapter, shall be reserved for the States 
and their local subdivisions.

(Pub. L. 94-462, title II, Sec. 263, as added Pub. L. 104-208, div. A, 
title I, Sec. 101(e) [title VII, Sec. 702], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 
3009-233, 3009-302.)
