§ 13-2-905. Powers and duties
(a) (1) Immediately after their initial appointment, the board of trustees of the regional library system shall meet and elect the officers as they deem necessary. (2) A quorum of this board shall be a majority of the total number of members. (3) The board shall: (A) Adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations, and policies […]
§ 13-2-906. Annual reports
At the end of each calendar year, the board of trustees of every regional library system shall make a report to the governing body in the county or counties or municipality or municipalities wherein the board serves, showing the condition of the system during the year and other statistics and information as the board deems […]
§ 13-2-907. Contracts for library services and with other libraries
(a) Regional library systems are authorized to contract with other regional libraries, municipal libraries, or county public libraries or with library authorities of any college or university or any privately organized or endowed library, whereby common library branches or buildings or joint library services for the residents or patrons of the participating jurisdictions may be […]
§ 13-2-1001. Title
This subchapter may be referred to as the “Arkansas Digital Library Act”.
§ 13-2-1002. Creation
(a) (1) The Division of Higher Education and the Arkansas State Library shall develop a digitized collection of information that includes information that is in the public domain, cleared for public distribution over the internet, and to which students of public postsecondary schools in Arkansas have access. (2) The digitized information under this subchapter shall […]
§ 13-2-605. Prerequisites for construction or maintenance of libraries
No county, city, town, or combination thereof acting as a regional library district of this state shall be party to a library agreement which provides for the construction or maintenance of a library pursuant to Article III, subdivision (c)7 of the compact, nor pledge its credit in support of such a library, or contribute to […]
§ 13-2-903. Creation of a regional library system
(a) Any two (2) or more municipalities, any two (2) or more counties, or any one (1) or more municipalities together with any one (1) or more counties are authorized to create and become members of a regional library system as prescribed in this subchapter. (b) Upon the recommendation by the city library board of […]
§ 13-2-606. Interstate library districts included
(a) An interstate library district lying partly within this state may claim to be entitled to receive state aid in support of its functions to the same extent and in the same manner as such functions are eligible for support when carried on by entities wholly within this state. (b) For the purposes of computing […]
§ 13-2-904. Board of trustees
(a) (1) (A) The management and control of a regional library system shall be vested in a board of trustees, who shall be appointed by the county or municipal library boards from among the membership of the county or municipal library boards. (B) In the absence of the county or municipal library board, the governing […]
§ 13-2-701. Definitions
As used in this subchapter: (1) “Confidential library records” means documents or information in any format retained in a library that identifies a patron as having requested, used, or obtained specific materials, including, but not limited to, circulation of library books, materials, computer database searches, interlibrary loan transactions, reference queries, patent searches, requests for photocopies […]