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 1        AN ACT concerning libraries.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The State Library Act is amended by changing
 5    Sections 2, 5, 6, 7, 7.2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, and 21 as
 6    follows:

 7        (15 ILCS 320/2) (from Ch. 128, par. 102)
 8        Sec. 2.  Secretary  of  State  is  State  Librarian.  The
 9    Secretary  of State shall be the State Librarian of the State
10    Library, shall have the direction and control thereof, and he
11     shall appoint a Director of the State Library and such other
12    subordinate officers, personnel, and other employees  as  may
13    be  necessary  to carry out the provisions of this Act. He or
14    she may make, amend, and enforce such rules  and  regulations
15    in  relation  to   library services, materials, and resources
16    the care, arrangement and use of books, maps, charts, papers,
17    furniture and other things belonging to the State Library  as
18    he  may  deem proper.  Any rule or regulation made or amended
19    hereunder shall be filed with  the  Office  of  Secretary  of
20    State.
21    (Source: P.A. 77-1690.)

22        (15 ILCS 320/5) (from Ch. 128, par. 105)
23        Sec. 5. State Library Advisory Committee. There is hereby
24    created  an Advisory Library Committee whose duty it shall be
25    to make recommendations concerning  the  policies,  services,
26    and management of the State Library.   The Advisory Committee
27    shall   additionally   advise   the   State  Library  in  the
28    development of State and federal library plans; provide input
29    in addressing policies, issues, and  activities  for  library
30    development   and   cooperation   among  different  types  of
 
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 1    libraries; make recommendations concerning the evaluation  of
 2    statewide  services;  and  address  the  use of technology to
 3    expand access to information for the State's citizens.
 4        The Committee shall consist of 20  persons  appointed  by
 5    the  State  Librarian, and he may take into consideration the
 6    recommendations of the Illinois Library Association and other
 7    similar organizations.  The appointments shall consist of the
 8    following:
 9        13  Library  professionals  broadly   representative   of
10    Illinois  libraries  (including academic, public, school, and
11    special libraries), library systems and other consortia
12        1--Educator in the library field;
13        1--Institutional Librarian;
14        1--Special Librarian;
15        2--School Librarians;
16        2--Academic Librarians;
17        6--Library Directors of Library Systems or  Local  Public
18    Libraries; and
19        7  citizens.
20        Additional  persons may be made ex officio members of the
21    Committee, but without voting powers.
22        The  Director  of  the  State  Library  shall  serve   as
23    Secretary  of  the  Committee  but may vote only to break tie
24    votes.
25        The Advisory Committee shall elect its own  chairman  and
26    vice  chairman  and  committee  members  shall  serve without
27    compensation but may be reimbursed for expenses  incurred  as
28    members of the committee.
29        Each  committee member shall serve for a term of 3 years,
30    or until his or her successor is  appointed,  and  the  State
31    Librarian  may  stagger  the terms. No person shall serve for
32    more than 2 consecutive 3-year terms.
33    (Source: P.A. 84-444; 84-968.)
 
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 1        (15 ILCS 320/6) (from Ch. 128, par. 106)
 2        Sec. 6. Responsibilities and duties of the Committee. The
 3    Advisory Committee has the  responsibilities  and  duties  to
 4    make recommendations to the State Librarian as follows:
 5        (a)  General policies of the State Library;
 6        (b)  Budget policies to the State Librarian pertaining as
 7    it  pertains  to  the  annual  appropriations  for  the State
 8    Library;
 9        (c)  Such Library  standards  for  all  public  libraries
10    required  by  federal law or regulation to administer federal
11    aid;
12        (d)  Policies of the State-funded library systems; and
13        (e)  Policies of federally-funded library programs.
14        The committee may further  assist  in  communicating  the
15    goals,  plans, policies, and work of the State Library to all
16    governmental officials and the general public.
17    (Source: P.A. 77-1690.)

18        (15 ILCS 320/7) (from Ch. 128, par. 107)
19        Sec. 7.  Purposes Purpose  of  the  State  Library.   The
20    Illinois State Library shall:
21        (a)  Maintain a library for State officials and employees
22    of  the  State,  consisting  of  especially  of informational
23    material and resources pertaining to the phases of their work
24    , and serve as the State's library by extending its resources
25    to citizens of Illinois and to provide for them material  for
26    general reading and study.
27        (b)  Establish   and   operate  a  Governmental  Research
28    Service of the Illinois State Library.   This  service  shall
29    make  available  printed  and other materials that pertain to
30    public and governmental affairs. State Officers,  members  of
31    the  General  Assembly,  members  of  their staffs, and other
32    State employees shall have access to these materials.
33        (b)(c)  Maintain and provide  research  library  services
 
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 1    for all State agencies.
 2        (c)(d)  Administer  the  Illinois  Library System Act, as
 3    amended.
 4        (d)(e)  Promote  and  administer  the  law  relating   to
 5    Interstate Library Compacts.
 6        (e)  Enter  into  interagency agreements, pursuant to the
 7    Intergovernmental Cooperation Act,  including  agreements  to
 8    promote  access  to  information by Illinois students and the
 9    general public.
10        (f)  Function as a Research and Reference Center pursuant
11    to The Illinois Library System Act, as amended.
12        (f)(g)  Promote and develop a cooperative library network
13    operating regionally or  statewide  for  providing  effective
14    coordination  of  the  library resources of public, academic,
15    school, and special libraries, and  to  promote  and  develop
16    information   centers   for   improved  supplemental  library
17    services for special library clientele served by each type of
18    library or center.
19        (g)(h)  Administer  grants  of  federal   library   funds
20    pursuant to federal law and requirements.
21        (i)  Be  a  supplementary source through the State-funded
22    library systems for  reading  materials  unavailable  in  the
23    local libraries.
24        (h)(j)  Assist   local   libraries   in  their  plans  of
25    cooperation for better work and for library services in their
26    communities  and  to  loan  them  books  and  other   library
27    materials, including funding through the State-funded library
28    systems  for  the  purpose  of  local library development and
29    networking in furtherance of this object.
30        (i)(k)  Be ready to help Assist local library  groups  in
31    developing  a  programs  program  by  which  library services
32    service can be established  and  enhanced  in  areas  without
33    those  services  arranged  for in rural communities and rural
34    schools now without such service, and  to  develop  standards
 
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 1    for libraries.
 2        (j)(l)  Be a clearing house, in an advisory capacity, for
 3    questions  and  problems pertaining to the administration and
 4    functioning of public and school libraries in Illinois and to
 5    publish booklets and pamphlets to implement this service.
 6        (k)(m)  To seek the opinion of the Attorney  General  for
 7    legal  questions  pertaining  to  public  libraries and their
 8    function as governmental agencies.
 9        (l)(n)  Contract with any other library or library agency
10    to carry out the purposes of the State Library.  If any  such
11    contract  requires  payments  by user libraries for goods and
12    services, the State  Library  may  distribute  billings  from
13    contractors  to applicable user libraries and may receive and
14    distribute  payments  from  user  libraries  to  contractors.
15    There is hereby created in the  State  Treasury  the  Library
16    Trust   Fund,   into  which  all  moneys  monies  payable  to
17    contractors which are received from user libraries under this
18    paragraph (l) (n) shall be paid.   The  Treasurer  shall  pay
19    such  funds  to  contractors  at  the  direction of the State
20    Librarian.
21        (m)(o)  Collect, Compile,  preserve  and  publish  public
22    library statistical information.
23        (n)(p)  Compile  and  publish  the annual report of local
24    public libraries and library systems submitted to  the  State
25    Librarian pursuant to law.
26        (o)(q)  Conduct and arrange for library training programs
27    for  library personnel, library directors and others involved
28    in library services.
29        (p)(r)  Prepare Make and publish  an  annual  report  for
30    each fiscal year.
31        (s)  (Blank).
32        (t)  Create   and  maintain  a  State  Government  Report
33    Distribution Center for the  General  Assembly.   The  Center
34    shall receive all reports required by law or resolution to be
 
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 1    filed  with  the General Assembly and shall furnish copies of
 2    such  reports  without  charge  to  members  of  the  General
 3    Assembly upon request.  Before  any  report  to  the  General
 4    Assembly is printed or otherwise reproduced for distribution,
 5    the  person making such report shall inquire of the Center as
 6    to the number of copies required for its  purposes  and  that
 7    number  of  copies,  determined by the Center on the basis of
 8    its experience, shall  be  supplied  to  the  Center  by  the
 9    reporting  party on the same day on which the report is filed
10    with the Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  and  the
11    Secretary  of  the  Senate  as required by Section 3.1 of the
12    General Assembly Organization Act.  This paragraph  does  not
13    affect the requirements of Section 21 of this Act relating to
14    the deposit of State publications with the State Library.
15        (q)(t-1)  Make  available  to  the  public,  by  means of
16    access  by  way  of  the  largest  nonproprietary   nonprofit
17    cooperative public computer network, certain records of State
18    agencies.
19        As  used  in  this subdivision (q)(t-1), "State agencies"
20    means all officers, boards, commissions and agencies  created
21    by  the  Constitution;  all  officers,  departments,  boards,
22    commissions,     agencies,     institutions,     authorities,
23    universities,  and bodies politic and corporate of the State;
24    administrative units or corporate  outgrowths  of  the  State
25    government which are created by or pursuant to statute, other
26    than  units  of  local  government and their officers, school
27    districts and  boards  of  election  commissioners;  and  all
28    administrative  units  and  corporate outgrowths of the above
29    and as may be created by executive  order  of  the  Governor;
30    however,  "State  agencies"  does  not  include  any  agency,
31    officer,  or  other  entity  of  the  judicial or legislative
32    branch.
33        As used in this  subdivision  (q)(t-1),  "records"  means
34    public records, as defined in the Freedom of Information Act,
 
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 1    that  are  not  exempt from inspection and copying under that
 2    Act.
 3        The State Librarian and  each  appropriate  State  agency
 4    shall  specify the types and categories of records that shall
 5    be accessible through the public  computer  network  and  the
 6    types  and  categories of records that shall be inaccessible.
 7    Records currently held by a State agency and  documents  that
 8    are  required to be provided to the Illinois State Library in
 9    accordance with Section 21 shall be provided to the  Illinois
10    State  Library  in  an  appropriate  electronic  format  when
11    feasible.   The  cost  to each State agency of making records
12    accessible  through  the  public  computer  network   or   of
13    providing  records  in an appropriate electronic format shall
14    be   considered   in    making    determinations    regarding
15    accessibility.
16        As soon as possible and no later than 18 months after the
17    effective  date of this amendatory Act of 1995, the types and
18    categories of information, specified by the  State  Librarian
19    and each appropriate State agency, shall be made available to
20    the  public  by  means  of  access  by  way  of  the  largest
21    nonproprietary,   nonprofit   cooperative   public   computer
22    network.   The  information shall be made available in one or
23    more formats and by one or more means in order to provide the
24    greatest feasible access to the general public in this State.
25    Any person who accesses the information may access all or any
26    part of the information.  The information may  also  be  made
27    available  by any other means of access that would facilitate
28    public access to the information.  The information  shall  be
29    made  available  in  the  shortest  feasible time after it is
30    publicly available.
31        Any documentation that describes the  electronic  digital
32    formats  of  the information shall be made available by means
33    of access by way of the same public computer network.
34        Personal information concerning a person who accesses the
 
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 1    information  may  be  maintained  only  for  the  purpose  of
 2    providing service to the person.
 3        The electronic public  access  provided  by  way  of  the
 4    public  computer  network  shall  be  in  addition  to  other
 5    electronic or print distribution of the information.
 6        No action taken under this subdivision (q) (t-1) shall be
 7    deemed   to  alter  or  relinquish  any  copyright  or  other
 8    proprietary interest or entitlement of the State of  Illinois
 9    relating  to any of the information made available under this
10    subdivision (q)(t-1).
11        (r)(u)  Coordinate literacy programs for the Secretary of
12    State.
13        (v)  Establish and maintain, directly or by  contract,  a
14    statewide system of direction services to provide information
15    about  services  for  handicapped persons and their families.
16    Such information shall be maintained and available through  a
17    computerized  data base, which may include but not be limited
18    to  the  name,  location,  and  a  description  of   specific
19    education,   social  and  medical  services  for  handicapped
20    persons and their families that may be available from  public
21    and  private sources.  Such services shall include efforts to
22    increase the  awareness  of  handicapped  persons  and  their
23    families   about   such   services.   For  purposes  of  this
24    paragraph, "handicapped person" includes any  person  who  is
25    handicapped  within  the meaning of the federal Education for
26    All Handicapped Children Act and the  Rehabilitation  Act  of
27    1973,  as  amended,  and  any  person  with  a  developmental
28    disability   as   defined   by   the   federal  Developmental
29    Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act.
30        (s)(w)  Establish and maintain an Office of  Preservation
31    for  the  purpose  of  preserving  the  library  and archival
32    resources in Illinois.  The Office will Provide  coordination
33    of  statewide preservation planning, act as a focal point for
34    preservation advocacy, assess statewide needs  and  establish
 
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 1    specific programs to meet those needs, and manage state funds
 2    appropriated   for   preservation   work   relating   to  the
 3    preservation  of  the  library  and  archival  resources   of
 4    Illinois.
 5        (t)  Create   and  maintain  a  State  Government  Report
 6    Distribution Center for the  General  Assembly.   The  Center
 7    shall  receive  all reports in all formats available required
 8    by law or resolution to be filed with  the  General  Assembly
 9    and  shall  furnish copies of such reports on the same day on
10    which the report is filed with the  Clerk  of  the  House  of
11    Representatives  and the Secretary of the Senate, as required
12    by the General Assembly Organization Act, without  charge  to
13    members of the General Assembly upon request.  This paragraph
14    does  not  affect  the requirements of Section 21 of this Act
15    relating to the deposit of State publications with the  State
16    library.
17    (Source:  P.A.  88-45;  88-161; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-169,
18    eff. 7-19-95.)

19        (15 ILCS 320/7.2) (from Ch. 128, par. 107.2)
20        Sec. 7.2.  Literacy Advisory Board.  There is  created  a
21    Literacy Advisory Board, consisting of the Secretary of State
22    or  his  designee as chairperson, 2 members from the Illinois
23    State Library or their designees, 2 members from the Illinois
24    State Board of Education or their designees  and  3  Illinois
25    citizens  interested  in the literacy issue, all appointed by
26    the Secretary of State.  The Literacy  Advisory  Board  shall
27    review  community  and workplace all proposals for funding of
28    literacy programs in Illinois submitted through the Office of
29    the Secretary of State and  recommend  to  the  Secretary  of
30    State those deserving of funding.  The Illinois State Library
31    may  promulgate  rules and regulations to establish standards
32    for literacy program funding criteria.
33    (Source: P.A. 84-126; 84-444; 84-968.)
 
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 1        (15 ILCS 320/8) (from Ch. 128, par. 108)
 2        Sec. 8. Catalog.  The  State  Librarian  or  his  or  her
 3    designee  shall  maintain  prepare  a catalog with containing
 4    information pertaining to the collections of with respect  to
 5    items  in  the  State  Library. Such catalog to be similar to
 6    those used in American libraries.
 7    (Source: P.A. 77-1690.)

 8        (15 ILCS 320/9) (from Ch. 128, par. 109)
 9        Sec. 9. Ownership mark. The State Librarian will identify
10     shall cause each book in the State Library with an ownership
11    mark and those to be added to bear an ownership mark  reading
12    "Illinois State Library" and such other official marks as are
13    commonly used in American libraries.
14    (Source: P.A. 77-1690.)

15        (15 ILCS 320/10) (from Ch. 128, par. 110)
16        Sec.  10.  Users  of  the  State  Library.   Books, other
17    reading materials and other library materials shall be loaned
18    and Library services shall be supplied to: State Officers and
19    Officials; members of the General Assembly and  staff;  State
20    agencies,  bodies  and  commissions;  State  agency employes;
21    patrons of libraries with  whom  consortial  agreements  have
22    been established; and the general public.
23        Urban   and  rural  schools  not  having  school  library
24    facilities or access to a State-funded library system;
25        Individuals living in communities without  local  library
26    service and without access to a State-funded library system;
27        Local  public  libraries where such loans or services are
28    not available or cannot be obtained as a State-funded library
29    system and to other  individuals  and  study  groups  at  the
30    discretion of the State Librarian.
31        Any individual, study group, school, library or community
32    requesting  books or other reading materials or other library
 
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 1    materials from the State Library must fill in an  application
 2    for  this  service, thereby becoming officially recorded as a
 3    registered borrower of the State Library.
 4        Registrants not requesting reading  materials  for  three
 5    consecutive years must renew their application before reading
 6    materials can be loaned to them.
 7    (Source: P.A. 78-255.)

 8        (15 ILCS 320/11) (from Ch. 128, par. 111)
 9        Sec.   11.  Services  of  the  State  Library.   Services
10    provided to users of the State Library include  but  are  not
11    limited  to  circulation,  reference,  and  interlibrary loan
12    Registry of library materials.
13        A record shall be kept of all books or other items loaned
14    by the Illinois State Library for such period and under  such
15    regulations as determined by the State Librarian.
16             (a)  Circulation.
17                  (1)  Library     materials     designated    as
18             circulating shall be directly  loaned  on  site  to:
19             State officials; members of the General Assembly and
20             staff;  State agency employees; individuals who hold
21             valid Illinois public library cards; individuals who
22             hold valid library cards from  libraries  with  whom
23             consortial agreements have been reached that specify
24             reciprocal    borrowing    privileges;   and   other
25             individuals as specified by the State  Librarian  or
26             his or her designee.
27                  (2)  Any  individual  requesting circulation of
28             material from the State  Library  must  fill  in  an
29             application   for  this  service,  thereby  becoming
30             officially recorded as a registered borrower of  the
31             State Library.
32                  (3)  All  requests for materials or information
33             will be kept confidential  in  accordance  with  the
 
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 1             Library Records Confidentiality Act.
 2             (b)  Reference.
 3                  (1)  Instructions on how to use the library and
 4             its resources are available to any patron.
 5                  (2)  The quick provision of factual information
 6             shall be provided to any individual.
 7                  (3)  Provision  of research assistance shall be
 8             provided  to  officials  and  employees   of   State
 9             government for work-related purposes.
10             (c)  Interlibrary loan.
11                  (1)  Borrowing.  Materials  shall  be  borrowed
12             from  other  libraries on behalf of State officials,
13             members of the General Assembly and staff, and State
14             agency employees who are registered borrowers of the
15             State Library for  their  work-related  needs.   Any
16             fees  for interlibrary loan lending shall be paid by
17             the requesting patron or agency.
18                  (2)  Lending.    Circulating   State    Library
19             materials  shall  be  loaned to other libraries that
20             request the materials on behalf of their patrons.
21    (Source: P.A. 77-1690.)

22        (15 ILCS 320/12) (from Ch. 128, par. 112)
23        Sec. 12. Replacement of library  materials.  If  any  Any
24    person  who  fails  to return any borrowed book or other item
25    taken from the library within  the  time  prescribed  by  the
26    State  Librarian,  or  damages  injures  the  item  same,  is
27    responsible   for   replacement   or  replacement  costs,  as
28    determined by the State Librarian or his or her  designee  he
29    shall  be  obliged to replace the said item, such replacement
30    item to be in new condition.
31    (Source: P.A. 77-1690.)

32        (15 ILCS 320/18) (from Ch. 128, par. 118)
 
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 1        Sec. 18. Federal aid. The Secretary of  State  and  State
 2    Librarian  is  authorized  and  empowered  to  do  all things
 3    necessary and proper  to  fully  cooperate  with  the  United
 4    States   government   Commissioner   of   Education   in  the
 5    administering of any Act heretofore, or hereafter enacted for
 6    the purpose of appropriation of  funds  for  the  payment  of
 7    salaries,  library materials, access to electronic resources,
 8    books,  periodicals,   library   supplies,   equipment,   the
 9    construction of library buildings, for the maintenance of the
10    expense  of public library services throughout the State, and
11    for library services  to  for  interlibrary  cooperation  for
12    library  services  to  institutions operated or substantially
13    supported by the State of Illinois, and for library  services
14    to the physically handicapped.
15    (Source: P.A. 77-1690.)

16        (15 ILCS 320/19) (from Ch. 128, par. 119)
17        Sec.  19.  Reimbursement  of  federal funds for services.
18    When federal funds are expended to provide  library  services
19    to  local  libraries pursuant to the Federal Library Services
20    Act (Public  law  597-84th  Congress)  and  reimbursement  is
21    received  from  such  local libraries, the amount received as
22    reimbursement shall be returned be paid into the  trust  fund
23    in the State Treasury from which such expenditure was made.
24    (Source: P.A. 77-1690.)

25        (15 ILCS 320/21) (from Ch. 128, par. 121)
26        Sec.  21.  Publications  and  lists;  deposits  by  State
27    agencies.
28        (a)  All  State  agencies  shall provide and deposit with
29    the  Illinois  State  Library  sufficient   copies   of   all
30    publications issued by such State agencies for its collection
31    and  for exchange purposes. The State Librarian shall by rule
32    or regulation specify the number of copies required  and  the
 
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 1    publications  that  must  be deposited.   The number of paper
 2    copies of a publication that must be deposited may be reduced
 3    if the documents are also submitted  in  an  electric  format
 4    specified by the Illinois State Library.
 5        For the purposes of this section:
 6             (1)  "State  agencies"  means  every  State  office,
 7        official  officer,  department,  division, section, unit,
 8        service,  bureau,  board,  commission,   committee,   and
 9        subdivision   thereof   of  all  branches  of  the  State
10        government and which agencies  expend  appropriations  of
11        State funds.
12             (2)  "Publications"   means  any  document,  report,
13        directory, bibliography,  rule,  regulation,  newsletter,
14        pamphlet,  brochure, periodical or other printed material
15        paid for in whole or in part by funds appropriated by the
16        General Assembly or issued at  the  request  of  a  State
17        agency,  excepting  however, correspondence, inter-office
18        memoranda, and confidential publications.
19             (3)  "Printed    material"    means     publications
20        duplicated by any and all methods of duplication.
21        (b)  The  State Librarian shall from time to time provide
22    publish a listing, electronically, in  printed  form,  or  in
23    both  formats,  of  the  publications  received by him or her
24    under this Act.
25    (Source: P.A. 77-1690.)

26        (15 ILCS 320/4 rep.)
27        (15 ILCS 320/20 rep.)

28        Section  10.  The  State  Library  Act  is   amended   by
29    repealing Sections 4 and 20.

30        Section  15.   The Illinois Library System Act is amended
31    by changing Section 8.4 as follows:



 
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 1        (75 ILCS 10/8.4) (from Ch. 81, par. 118.4)
 2        Sec. 8.4.  School  library  grants.   Beginning  July  1,
 3    1989,  the  State  Librarian shall make grants annually under
 4    this Section to all school districts in  the  State  for  the
 5    establishment and operation of qualified school libraries, or
 6    the   additional   support   of   existing  qualified  school
 7    libraries, from funds appropriated by the  General  Assembly.
 8    Such  grants  shall  be in the amount of $0.75 per student as
 9    determined by the official  enrollment  as  of  the  previous
10    September  30  of  the  respective  school having a qualified
11    school library.  If the moneys appropriated for grants  under
12    this  Section  are  not sufficient, the State Librarian shall
13    reduce the amount of the grants as necessary; in making these
14    reductions, the State Librarian  shall  endeavor  to  provide
15    each school district that has a qualifying school library (i)
16    at least the same amount per student as the district received
17    under  this  Section in the preceding fiscal year, and (ii) a
18    total grant of at least $100.
19        To qualify  for  grants  under  this  Section,  a  school
20    library must:
21             (1)  Be an entity which serves the basic information
22        and  library needs of the school's employees and students
23        through  a  bibliographically  organized  collection   of
24        library  materials,  has  at  least  one  employee  whose
25        primary  duty  is  to  serve  as  a  librarian, and has a
26        collection permanently supported financially,  accessible
27        centrally,  and  occupying  identifiable  quarters in one
28        principal location.
29             (2)  Meet  the  requirements  for  membership  in  a
30        library system under the provisions of this Act.
31             (3)  Have applied  for  membership  in  the  library
32        system  of  jurisdiction  if  the  system  is a multitype
33        library system under this Act.
34             (4)  Provide, as mutually determined by the Illinois
 
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 1        State  Librarian  and  the  Illinois   State   Board   of
 2        Education,  library  services  which  either meet or show
 3        progress  toward  meeting  the  Illinois  school  library
 4        standards as most recently adopted by the Illinois School
 5         Library Media Association.
 6             (5)  Submit  a   statement   certifying   that   the
 7        financial  support for the school library or libraries of
 8        the  applying  school  district   has   been   maintained
 9        undiminished,   or   if  diminished,  the  percentage  of
10        diminution of financial  support  is  no  more  than  the
11        percentage  of  diminution of the applying school's total
12        financial support for educational and operations purposes
13        since the submission of the last previous application  of
14        the  school  district  for the school library per student
15        grant that was funded.
16        Grants  under  this  Section  shall  be  made  only  upon
17    application of the school district for its  qualified  school
18    library or school libraries.
19    (Source: P.A. 88-375.)

20        Section  99.  Effective  date. This Act takes effect upon
21    becoming law.

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