Chapter
264
2007 -- S 0390 SUBSTITUTE A
Enacted 07/03/07
A N A C T
RELATING
TO LIBRARIES - OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES
Introduced
By: Senators Bates, Gibbs, and Tassoni
Date
Introduced: February 13, 2007
It is enacted by the General Assembly as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section
29-3.1-1.1 of the General Laws in Chapter 29-3.1 entitled "Office
of State Library and Information Services"
is hereby amended to read as follows:
29-3.1-1.1.
Definitions. -- For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise
indicated by
the context, the following words and terms shall
have the following meanings:
(1)
"Interlibrary cooperation" means two (2) or more independent
libraries working
together to achieve a common purpose;
(2) "Public
library" means a library in a city or town that has been designated by the
city
or town council or town financial meeting as a
library to provide library services to all individuals
residing in the city or town;
(3) "Public
library development" means the activities undertaken to strengthen,
improve,
or initiate library services that are provided
by a public library; and
(4)
"Resource sharing" means the sharing of library materials, the
creation and
maintenance of a statewide library catalog,
providing statewide access to databases and/or staff
expertise between two (2) or more libraries.
SECTION 2. Section
29-6-9 of the General Laws in Chapter 29-6 entitled "State Aid to
Libraries" is hereby amended to read as
follows:
29-6-9.
Rhode Island library network. -- (a) In order to provide each
individual in
Rhode Island with equal opportunity of access to
resources that will satisfy their and society's
information needs and interests, the department
of state library services office of library and
information services is hereby authorized to
establish a Rhode Island library network, hereafter
referred to as the library of Rhode Island
network (LORI),
to be administered by the department
of state library services office of library
and information services for the purpose of maintaining,
promoting, and developing a program of statewide
resource sharing and interlibrary cooperation.
The department of state library services office
of library and information services shall include as
part of its budget a budget for the
administration and operation of the Rhode Island library
network to:
(1) Provide
central support services for the Rhode Island library network library
of
Rhode Island, such as delivery of materials,
telecommunications, consultant services, resource
sharing and access to bibliographic and other
information sources;
(2) Reimburse
libraries for the actual cost of providing services to individuals outside the
library's primary clientele; and
(3) Support the
development, maintenance of, and access to the resource sharing
potential embodied in specialized collections
and services at the Providence public library and
other libraries which can be provided most cost-effectively
on a statewide basis.
(b) By fiscal
year 2000, the state shall provide from state and federal revenue sources
one hundred percent (100%) of the funding for
the following statewide library services:
(1) Reference resource
center at the Providence public library;
(2) Interlibrary
delivery system;
(3) Interlibrary
telecommunications system;
(4) Electronic
interlibrary loan system; and
(5) Library
holdings database; Statewide catalog of all library holdings.
(6)
Cooperating libraries automated network; and
(7)(6)
[Deleted by P.L. 1996, ch. 100, art. 29, section 1.]
(c)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b), the funding for the statewide
library catalog and the statewide access to
databases shall be subject to appropriation by the
general assembly. The duty imposed upon the
office of state library and information services to
create and maintain a statewide library catalog
and provide statewide access to databases shall be
subject to appropriation by the general
assembly.
SECTION 3. This
act shall take effect upon passage.
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