§ 270. Acceptance of surplus library books or property. The state
education department is hereby authorized to cooperate with the United
States commissioner of education, the war assets administration, and/or
other federal officers and officials in the administration of any
statute heretofore or hereafter enacted for the disposal of surplus
library books or property, and to accept for and on behalf of the state
of New York or its political subdivisions surplus library books or other
property suitable and necessary to the operation of public and free
libraries and Indian libraries and for the improvement and extension of
library service for New York state, and any funds, which may be made
available to the state of New York by the federal government for these
and related public and Indian library services.