256.54 - STATE LIBRARY -- MEDICAL AND LAW LIBRARIES.
256.54 STATE LIBRARY -- MEDICAL AND LAW LIBRARIES.
The state library includes, but is not limited to, a medical
library, a law library, and the state data center.
1. The medical library shall be administered by a medical
librarian, appointed by the director subject to chapter 8A,
subchapter IV, who shall do all of the following:
a. Operate the medical library which shall always be
available for free use by the residents of Iowa under rules the
commission adopts.
b. Give no preference to any school of medicine and shall
secure books, periodicals, and pamphlets for every legally recognized
school of medicine without discrimination.
c. Perform other duties imposed by law or prescribed by the
rules of the commission.
2. The law library shall be administered by a law librarian
appointed by the director subject to chapter 8A, subchapter IV, who
shall do all of the following:
a. Operate the law library which shall be maintained in the
state capitol or in rooms convenient to the state supreme court and
which shall be available for free use by the residents of Iowa under
rules the commission adopts.
b. Maintain, as an integral part of the law library, reports
of various boards and agencies, copies of bills, journals, other
information relating to current or proposed legislation, and copies
of the Iowa administrative bulletin and Iowa administrative code and
any publications incorporated by reference in the bulletin or code.
c. Arrange to make exchanges of all printed material
published by the states and the government of the United States.
d. Perform other duties imposed by law or by the rules of the
commission. Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 48, §21; 95 Acts, ch 14, §2; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §224,
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