LIBRARY LEGISLATION
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- Maintenance
- Provide for permanent maintenance by a regular annual tax, the rate to be fixed by the library authority within the limits, if any, set by law.
- Management
- Establish an independent board of trustees consisting of representative citizens of recognized fitness, of either sex, to serve without salary, and place the management wholly in its hands.
- Secure a permanent board with gradual change of membership, the number of members to be five to seven, appointed by the mayor or other executive officer for a term of five years, not more than two to go out of office in any given year; or divide the appointing power between several officers or bodies.
- Constitute the library a public corporation with power to acquire, hold, transfer, and lease property and to receive donations and bequests.
- Outline the powers and duties of trustees, such as to buy sites, erect buildings, purchase books and supplies, engage the necessary employees, fix salaries, etc.
- Require state certificates based on special training or experience for certain positions and provide that all assistants shall be appointed by the board on recommendation of the librarian.
- Contract
- Permit aiding a free library with public money and making a contract with some existing library to furnish general or special library privileges to the public.
