256.52 - COMMISSION OF LIBRARIES ESTABLISHED -- DUTIES OF COMMISSION AND STATE LIBRARIAN -- STATE LIBRARY FUND CREATED.
256.52 COMMISSION OF LIBRARIES ESTABLISHED -- DUTIES
OF COMMISSION AND STATE LIBRARIAN -- STATE LIBRARY FUND CREATED.
1. The state commission of libraries consists of one member
appointed by the supreme court, the director of the department of
education, or the director's designee, and six members appointed by
the governor to serve four-year terms beginning and ending as
provided in section 69.19. Of the governor's appointees, one member
shall be from the medical profession and five members selected at
large. Not more than three of the members appointed by the governor
shall be of the same gender. The members shall be reimbursed for
their actual expenditures necessitated by their official duties.
Members may also be eligible for compensation as provided in section
7E.6.
2. The commission shall elect one of its members as chairperson.
The commission shall meet at the time and place specified by call of
the chairperson. Five members are a quorum for the transaction of
business.
3. The commission shall appoint the state librarian who shall
administer the division, and serve at the pleasure of the commission.
The state librarian shall do all of the following:
a. Direct and organize the activities of the division.
b. Submit a biennial report to the governor on the activities
and an evaluation of the division and its programs and policies.
c. Control all property of the division. The state librarian
may dispose of, through sale, conveyance, or exchange, any library
materials that may be obsolete or worn out or that may no longer be
needed or appropriate to the mission of the state library of Iowa.
These materials may be sold by the state library directly or the
library may sell the materials by consignment with an outside entity.
A state library fund is created in the state treasury. Proceeds from
the sale of the library materials shall be remitted to the treasurer
of state and credited to the state library fund and shall be used for
the purchase of books and other library materials. Notwithstanding
section 8.33, any balance in the fund on June 30 of any fiscal year
shall not revert to the general fund of the state.
d. Appoint and approve the technical, professional, excepting
the medical librarian and the law librarian, secretarial, and
clerical staff necessary to accomplish the purposes of the division
subject to chapter 8A, subchapter IV.
e. Perform other duties imposed by law.
4. The commission shall adopt rules under chapter 17A for
carrying out the responsibilities of the division.
5. The commission shall receive and approve the budget and
unified plan of service submitted by the division of libraries and
information services. Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 48, §19; 94 Acts, ch 1193, §18; 96 Acts, ch 1215, §
21; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §223