12Library service
(1)An education authority may, as an ancillary means of promoting education, provide, by purchase or otherwise, such books and other printed matter, pictures, gramophone records, tape recordings, films and other materials as they may think desirable, for pupils attending schools, junior colleges or other educational establishments in their area.
(2)For the purposes of this section, an education authority may—
(a)make such arrangements as they consider necessary for the management of a library service provided by "them including the accommodation and distribution of books and other materials, and
(b)enter into arrangements with the managers of public libraries.