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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18746
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18746
Each system shall annually apply to the state board for funds for planning, coordination, and evaluation of the overall systemwide services authorized by this chapter.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18747
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18747
Each system shall establish an administrative council whose membership consists of the head librarians of each jurisdiction in the system. Duties of the administrative council shall include general administrative responsibility for the system, adopting a system plan of service, a
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18760
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18760
The state board shall establish and administer two or more state reference centers. The centers shall be responsible for answering reference requests that cannot be met by systems and libraries participating in the programs authorized by this chapter.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18761
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18761
Each reference center established by the state shall provide statewide service. Such service shall include the handling of reference requests that cannot be met locally and regionally.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18762
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18762
Each reference center established pursuant to Section 18760 may enter into reciprocal or contractual agreements with libraries or any other information source for the purpose of making available their materials and informational services for the benefit of the library users of th
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18763
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18763
The budget of any reference center established pursuant to Section 18760 may include funds for the general operations of such centers, including funds for collection development and use.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18764
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18764
The state board shall designate one or more of the reference centers established pursuant to Section 18760 as a repository for collections specially relevant to economically disadvantaged persons and non-English-speaki ng persons.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18766
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18766
The state board shall establish and maintain a statewide communications and delivery and resource-sharing network between and among systems, state reference centers, independent public libraries, and all other libraries participating in the programs authorized by this act.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18767
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18767
The state board shall establish and maintain a computerized data base of bibliographic records and locations of all materials acquired by public libraries in this state, for the purpose of carrying out the legislative policy of enabling libraries to share resources efficiently.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18880
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18880
(a) The California Library Literacy and English Acquisition Services Program is hereby established within the California State Library as a public library program designed to reduce illiteracy among children and adults by providing English language literacy instruction and relate
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18881
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18881
The California Library Literacy and English Acquisition Services Program for public libraries may be used for any of the following: (a) (1) Services designed to reduce adult illiteracy by providing English language literacy instruction and related services to adults and youth who
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18883
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18883
A local library shall ensure that funds received pursuant to this chapter are exclusively used for expenses resulting from providing English language and literacy services and shall ensure that at least 90 percent of the funds received for the program are expended on direct servi
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18900
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18900
The common council, board of trustees, or other legislative body of any city in the state may, and upon being requested to do so by one-fourth of the electors of the municipal corporation in the manner provided in this article, shall, by ordinance, establish in and for the munici
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18901
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18901
The request may be by a single petition, or by several petitions. The several petitions shall be substantially in the same form. The single petition, or several petitions in the aggregate, shall have, the signatures of the requisite number of electors.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18910
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18910
The public library shall be managed by a board of library trustees, consisting of five members, to be appointed by the mayor, president of the board of trustees, or other executive head of the municipality, with the consent of the legislative body of the municipality.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18911
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18911
The trustees shall hold office for three years. The members of the first board appointed shall so classify themselves by lot that one of their number shall go out of office at the end of the current fiscal year, two at the end of one year thereafter, and two at the end of two yea
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18912
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18912
Men and women are equally eligible to appointment as trustees.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18913
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18913
Vacancies shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointments are made.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18914
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18914
Boards of library trustees shall meet at least once a month at such times and places as they may fix by resolution.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18915
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18915
Meetings of the board are governed by the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code).
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18916
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18916
A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18917
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18917
The board shall appoint one of its number president, who shall serve for one year and until his successor is appointed, and in his absence shall select a president pro tem.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18918
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18918
The board shall cause a proper record of its proceedings to be kept.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18919
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18919
The board of library trustees may make and enforce all rules, regulations, and bylaws necessary for the administration, government, and protection of the libraries under its management, and all property belonging thereto.
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Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18920
Education Code - EDC - EDC § 18920
The board of library trustees may administer any trust declared or created for the library, and receive by gift, devise, or bequest and hold in trust or otherwise, property situated in this state or elsewhere, and where not otherwise provided, dispose of the property for the bene