§ 7-a. Legislative library, librarian and assistants. There shall be a
legislative library to be located in the state capitol in rooms assigned
by the commissioner of general services, conveniently accessible to the
members of both houses of legislature, and such library shall be open
throughout the year.

Such library shall be suitably furnished, equipped and maintained
under the direction of the legislative librarian, within the amount of
any moneys available therefor by appropriation, subject to joint rules,
if any, that may be adopted by the senate and assembly in relation
thereto. There shall be, for such library, a legislative librarian and
such assistant librarians and other employees as may be provided for in
the legislative appropriation bill. Such librarian, assistant librarians
and other employees shall be chosen by the temporary president of the
senate and speaker of the assembly. One of the assistant librarians
shall be assigned by the legislative librarian to have charge of the
legislative correspondents' room in the capitol. The legislative
librarian and assistant librarians heretofore chosen by the president of
the senate and speaker of the assembly, and in office when this section
as hereby amended takes effect, shall continue to serve until their
successors shall be chosen. The salaries and compensation of the
legislative librarian, assistant librarians and other employees shall be
payable from moneys appropriated in the legislative appropriation bill.
During a vacancy in the office of legislative librarian, the assistant
librarian who shall have been longest in the service of the state as a
legislative employee, shall be employed as acting legislative librarian
with the powers and duties of such librarian, and shall receive during
such period the compensation herein prescribed for the legislative
librarian. Such librarian shall have charge of the legislative library,
but the two houses of the legislature may, by joint rules, regulate the
use of the library and prescribe the powers and duties of the
legislative librarian and the assistant librarians.

The legislative librarian, the assistant librarians and employees of
the legislative library shall be considered to be employees of the
legislature for all purposes.