Code of Alabama - Title 41: State Government - Chapter 8 - Alabama Public Library Service

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 41-8-1 Creation; chief objective
  In order to aid in the development of higher ideals of citizenship and the enlargement of opportunity for culture and recreation and in order to...
• Section 41-8-2 Executive board generally
  The Executive Board of the Alabama Public Library Service shall consist of seven members appointed by the Governor, of which one member shall be from...
• Section 41-8-3 Election of officers of executive board; Director of Public Library Service and assistants
  The members of the executive board shall elect from its membership a chairman and vice-chairman. The board shall appoint a director. The director shall be...
• Section 41-8-4 Annual report of executive board to Governor
  The executive board shall make an annual report to the Governor. The report shall show public library conditions and progress in Alabama and a statement...
• Section 41-8-5 Powers and duties of Public Library Service generally
  (a) The Alabama Public Library Service shall give advice to all free public, regional, municipal and county libraries and to all communities in the state...
• Section 41-8-6 Scholarships and grants in field of library service
  The Executive Board of the Alabama Public Library Service may, upon such terms and conditions as it may fix, award scholarships or grants in the...
• Section 41-8-7 Service to obtain reports from public libraries
  The Alabama Public Library Service shall each year obtain from all free public libraries in the State of Alabama reports showing the conditions, growth, development...
• Section 41-8-8 Applicability and effect of article
  This article shall in no way affect the administration and supervision of public school libraries which have been or may hereafter be established by aid...
• Section 41-8-9 "Registration records" defined
  As used in Section 41-8-10, the term "registration records" includes any information which a library requires a patron to provide in order to become eligible...
• Section 41-8-10 Registration, etc., records of public libraries to be confidential; right of parents to inspect records
  It is recognized that public library use by an individual should be of confidential nature. Any other provision of general, special or local law, rule...
• Article 2 Interstate Library Compact.
• Section 41-8-20 "State library agency" defined
  As used in the compact, "state library agency" with reference to this state means the Alabama Public Library Service.
• Section 41-8-21 Enactment of compact; form
  The Interstate Library Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all states legally joining therein in the form substantially...
• Section 41-8-22 Compact administrator; deputy compact administrators
  The Director of the Alabama Public Library Service shall be the compact administrator pursuant to Article X of the compact. The Director of the Alabama...
• Section 41-8-23 Restrictions as to entry into library agreements for construction or maintenance of libraries, etc., by counties, municipalities, etc
  No county, municipality or other political subdivision of this state shall be party to a library agreement which provides for the construction or maintenance of...
• Section 41-8-24 State aid to interstate library districts lying partly within state; application for and receipt of federal aid by such districts
  (a) An interstate library district lying partly within this state may claim and be entitled to receive state aid in support of any of its...
• Section 41-8-25 Sending and receipt of notices required in event of withdrawal from compact
  In the event of withdrawal from the compact the Governor shall send and receive any notices required by Article XI (b) of the compact.
• Article 3 Depositories and Clearinghouse For State Publications.
• Section 41-8-40 Legislative intent
  It is the intent of the Legislature that: (1) State publications of public interest be made available to the public. (2) An efficient distribution and...
• Section 41-8-41 Definitions
  As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPOSITORY. An institution which contracts with the Alabama Public Library Service...
• Section 41-8-42 Alabama Clearinghouse for State Publications created
  There is created as a program of the Alabama Public Library Service, an Alabama Clearinghouse for State Publications. The clearinghouse shall establish and operate a...
• Section 41-8-43 Method of obtaining materials; distribution
  (a) The state printer or the responsible state agency shall forward at the expense of the agency at least nine copies of every state publication...
• Section 41-8-44 Designation of agency publication officer; duties
  (a) Every state agency shall designate one of its employees as the publications officer for the agency and notify the clearinghouse of the identity of...
• Section 41-8-45 Contracting with depository libraries; eligibility; obligations; penalty for noncompliance
  (a) The clearinghouse may enter into depository contracts with any municipal or county public library, public library system, state agency, in-state college or university library,...
• Section 41-8-46 Distribution of publication lists
  The clearinghouse shall issue periodic lists of state publications to the depositories.
• Section 41-8-47 Funding; implementation of program contingent on sufficient appropriations
  Funding for the clearinghouse program shall be from separate appropriations provided to the Alabama Public Library Service in a program entitled "Alabama Clearinghouse for State...
• Section 41-8-48 Retroactivity
  This article shall not require state agencies to supply copies of publications produced prior to the implementation date of this article.

Last modified: May 3, 2021