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AR Code § 13-2-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library|§ 13-2-205. State Library Board

 (a) There is created the State Library Board.  (b)  (1) The board shall consist of seven (7) members, to be appointed by the Governor subject to confirmation by the Senate.  (2) The members of the board shall be appointed by the Governor for reasons of their interest in libraries and in statewide library development.  (3)  (A) One (1) member of the board shall be appointed from each of the four (4) congressional districts of this state in existence at the time of appointment, and three (3) members shall be selected from the state at large.  (B) However, no more than two (2) members of the board shall be appointed from any one (1) congressional district.    (4)  (A) All members appointed to the board shall serve terms of seven (7) years and until their successors are appointed and qualified.  (B) No board member shall be appointed to serve for more than two (2) consecutive full terms.      (c) Vacancies occurring on the board due to death, resignation, or other reason shall be filled by appointment of the Governor for the remainder of the unexpired portion of the term in the same manner as for the initial appointment.  (d)  (1) Members of the board shall receive per diem at the rate established by law for attending board meetings or for performing other services required of members in their official capacity as members of the board.  (2) In addition, members shall be entitled to mileage at the rate provided by law for official travel of state employees for each mile in traveling from their place of residence to meetings of the board and returning or for attending to other authorized business of the board.
AR Code § 13-2-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library|§ 13-2-206. Meetings of board

 (a) The State Library Board shall meet at such place or places and shall keep such records as it may deem appropriate.  (b) The board shall select annually a chair and any other officers as it deems necessary.  (c) The board shall adopt policies and bylaws governing its meetings, the conduct of its business, and the business of the Arkansas State Library.  (d) The State Librarian shall serve as secretary of the board, but without a vote thereon, and shall attend all of the board meetings and keep records thereof.  (e) A majority of the board's members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all business transacted by the board shall be by majority vote of its members.
AR Code § 13-2-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library|§ 13-2-208. Cooperation with other libraries

 (a) The Arkansas State Library shall cooperate with the public and private libraries in the State of Arkansas and may enter into necessary agreements with libraries in other states and the Library of Congress for the sharing of library books, documents, facilities, or services under such terms and conditions as the State Library Board shall determine to be within the scope and services of the Arkansas State Library and in keeping with the state's library programs.  (b)  (1) The Arkansas State Library shall obtain reports from all libraries and each year report the condition, growth, development, and manner of development of those libraries and such other facts and statistics as may be of public interest.  (2) The Arkansas State Library shall include a summary thereof in its biennial report, which shall be filed with the Governor and the presiding officer of each house of the General Assembly.
AR Code § 13-2-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library|§ 13-2-209. Agreements with Arkansas State Archives and Secretary of State

 (a) The Arkansas State Library, acting through the State Library Board, is authorized to enter into necessary agreements with the Arkansas State Archives, with respect to an overall plan and design to assure that the functions and materials of the library and the Arkansas State Archives may be convenient to the public and public officials of this state and to its political subdivisions, and to assure that unnecessary duplication of services and facilities is minimized.  (b)  (1)  (A) In addition, the library is authorized to enter into contracts and agreements with the Secretary of State for the custody, storage, cataloging, or display in the library or Arkansas State Archives of any books, records, documents, or other papers in the custody of the Secretary of State.  (B) This shall be done under such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed to by the parties.    (2) The library is also authorized to accept custody and control over any books, records, and documents which the Secretary of State is now required by law to keep or maintain in his or her official files or volumes, if:  (A) The Secretary of State shall determine that the records could be properly cataloged, stored, and preserved in the library or Arkansas State Archives; and  (B) The Governor agrees in writing for the transfer of the books, records, and documents from the Secretary of State to the library or Arkansas State Archives, in accordance with the terms of the agreement made in writing signed by the Secretary of State and the State Librarian or the State Historian for the custody, cataloging, preservation, and care of the records.
AR Code § 13-2-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library|§ 13-2-210. Depository for federal, state, and local documents

 The Arkansas State Library shall serve as the state's regional depository library for federal documents and shall become the official depository for state and local documents.
AR Code § 13-2-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library|§ 13-2-211. Depository agreements and eligibility

 (a) The Arkansas State Library may enter into depository agreements with any city, county, district, regional, town, school, college, or university library in this state.  (b) The Arkansas State Library shall establish standards for eligibility as a depository library under this section, § 13-2-210, and §§ 13-2-212 — 13-2-214. The standards may include and take into account:  (1) The type of library;  (2) The library's ability to preserve state and local publications and to make them available for public use; and  (3) The library's geographical location, in order to assure that the publications are conveniently accessible to residents in all areas of the state.
AR Code § 13-2-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library|§ 13-2-212. State and Local Government Publications Clearinghouse

 (a) The Arkansas State Library shall create and maintain a State and Local Government Publications Clearinghouse.  (b) The Arkansas State Library shall make such rules as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the clearinghouse.  (c)  (1) All state agencies, including the General Assembly and its committees, constitutional officers, any department, division, bureau, board, commission, or agency of the State of Arkansas, all local governments, including cities of the first and second class and incorporated towns, and counties, and all boards, commissions, or agencies thereof shall furnish to the Arkansas State Library, upon release, a specified number of copies of each of its state or local publications.  (2) These publications shall be furnished to enable the clearinghouse to meet the needs of the Depository Library System and to provide library loan services to those libraries without depository status.  (3) The distribution will be required only if sufficient funds are appropriated for the printing of these materials by the agencies, boards, and commissions and for the distribution thereof by the Arkansas State Library to depository libraries.    (d) At least quarterly, and more frequently if funds are available, the clearinghouse of the Arkansas State Library shall publish and, upon request, distribute a list of state publications to all state agencies and contracting depository libraries.
AR Code § 13-2-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library|§ 13-2-213. Number of copies provided clearinghouse

 (a) If sufficient funds are available, each state and local agency printing or duplicating publications of the type which are to be made available to the State and Local Government Publications Clearinghouse shall print or duplicate fifty (50) additional copies or a lesser number as may be requested by the Arkansas State Library, for deposit with the clearinghouse for distribution to established depository libraries or interstate library exchange.  (b) However, if a state agency or a local governmental agency does not have sufficient funds or resources available to furnish the fifty (50) copies to the clearinghouse, it shall notify the Arkansas State Library and deliver to the clearinghouse three (3) copies of each publication to be maintained in the Arkansas State Library, to be indexed and made available on loan to participating libraries through the interlibrary loan services of the Arkansas State Library.
AR Code § 13-2-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas State Library|§ 13-2-214. Libraries of colleges and universities — Contracts — Status

 (a) The Arkansas State Library is authorized to enter into contracts or agreements with the Mullins Library of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the library of each of the state-supported institutions of higher learning in this state to provide through the State and Local Government Publications Clearinghouse any of the clearinghouse, exchange, depository, or selective or partial depository duties or functions of any of the libraries, or to provide depository library services in behalf of any of the libraries that may be mutually agreed to by the Arkansas State Library and the Mullins Library of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville or one (1) of the several institutions of higher learning of this state.  (b)  (1) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to repeal, amend, modify, or affect the status of the Mullins Library of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville as a depository of state, city, and county documents under the provisions of §§ 25-18-301 — 25-18-304.  (2) This subchapter shall not repeal, amend, modify, or affect the powers of the Mullins Library of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville or the library of each of the state-supported institutions of higher learning to be a selective or partial depository of state, city, and county documents under the provisions of §§ 25-18-306 — 25-18-308.
AR Code § 13-2-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 3 - Library of the Secretary of State|§ 13-2-301. Librarian

 The Secretary of State shall be librarian for the Library of the Secretary of State and shall have custody and direction of all books, papers, maps, charts, and all other things belonging to it, and he or she shall take special care that none of them be lost or injured.
AR Code § 13-2-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 3 - Library of the Secretary of State|§ 13-2-302. Binding of books and documents

 The Secretary of State shall cause to be bound, if not already done, in an inexpensive and substantial manner, three (3) copies of each of the acts of the General Assembly.
AR Code § 13-2-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 3 - Library of the Secretary of State|§ 13-2-304. Procuring copies of missing books

 Where there shall be a deficiency in any of the acts, journals, or other works, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to correspond with the proper officer for the purpose of procuring copies of the different works, and, if not otherwise procured, he or she shall purchase them and place them in the Library of the Secretary of State.
AR Code § 13-2-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 3 - Library of the Secretary of State|§ 13-2-306. Expenses of procuring works

 All expenses of procuring copies of acts, journals, and other works as are mentioned in this subchapter shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the General Assembly.
AR Code § 13-2-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 3 - Library of the Secretary of State|§ 13-2-307. Accounts

 The Auditor of State shall adjust the accounts of the Secretary of State as Librarian for the Library of the Secretary of State and draw warrants for the payment of them.
AR Code § 13-2-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 3 - Library of the Secretary of State|§ 13-2-308. Privilege of using books

 The officers of the several departments of the state, who are entitled to the use of the Library of the Secretary of State, may introduce citizens or strangers into the library, who shall have the privilege, during all seasonable hours, to read any of the books therein.
AR Code § 13-2-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 3 - Library of the Secretary of State|§ 13-2-309. Removal of books

 (a) No person shall be permitted to remove any book from the Library of the Secretary of State except the Governor, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, members of the General Assembly, Justices of the Supreme Court and judges of circuit courts, and attorneys for the state.  (b) No person shall be permitted to remove any book from the library without giving a receipt therefor to the Secretary of State.
AR Code § 13-2-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 3 - Library of the Secretary of State|§ 13-2-310. Injury to or failure to return books or charts — Penalty

 If any person shall injure or fail to return any book, map, or chart taken from the Library of the Secretary of State for more than three (3) months, he or she shall forfeit and pay to the Secretary of State, for the use and benefit of the library, three (3) times the value thereof, or of the set to which it belongs, to be recovered in the name of the state for the use of the library.
AR Code § 13-2-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 4 - County Libraries|§ 13-2-401. Establishment

 (a) The county quorum courts of the several counties shall have the power and authority to establish, maintain, and operate county public libraries or public library services or systems in the manner and with the functions prescribed in this subchapter, and counties may appropriate money for these purposes.  (b) The county quorum court shall also have the power to establish in cooperation with another county or other counties a joint public library or a joint library service or system for the benefit of the cooperating counties.  (c)  (1) Establishment of county libraries or library systems shall be evidenced by an ordinance of the county quorum court or by an agreement between the governing bodies of the several counties participating in a regional library system or coordinating library services under an interlocal agreement.  (2) Appropriations for the establishment and maintenance of a county library or library system shall be in the manner prescribed by law for expenditures by counties.    (d) In addition to county library boards created under this section, § 13-2-402, and § 13-2-404, a county quorum court may by ordinance establish a county library board to conduct the affairs of the county public library or its library services or system in accordance with the law for establishing other county advisory or administrative boards found at § 14-14-705.
AR Code § 13-2-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 4 - County Libraries|§ 13-2-402. Librarian

 (a) No person shall be appointed to the office of county librarian unless prior to appointment the person is recommended for appointment by the county library board, if the board has been created.  (b) The county librarian shall conduct the library according to the most acceptable library methods.
AR Code § 13-2-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 4 - County Libraries|§ 13-2-403. Multidistrict counties

 In any county in this state which is divided into two (2) districts and which has two (2) county seats, each district of the county may be considered as an individual county for the purpose of levying a county library tax under the provisions of Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 38.
AR Code § 13-2-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 4 - County Libraries|§ 13-2-405. Surplus funds — Matching funds

 (a) The governing board of any county public library is authorized to use any surplus funds available in the operating or maintenance account of the public library for matching federal or other funds available for financing necessary expansions or improvements of the public library.  (b) Before using any of the funds for the purposes of this section, the governing board of the county public library shall adopt a resolution setting forth the:  (1) Amount of the funds to be used;  (2) Purposes for which the funds are to be used;  (3) Amount of matching funds to be derived by the use of the funds; and  (4) Nature of the expansions or improvements to be made.    (c) The resolution shall include a declaration that the use of the funds will not jeopardize any existing program of the county public library and that the funds are not needed for any existing or anticipated maintenance or operating purpose of the library.  (d) The governing board of any county library using funds as authorized in this section is authorized to enter into contracts or agreements necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section.  (e)  (1) With respect to the purposes of this section, the governing board is authorized to accept gifts, grants, or donations of both real and personal property from the federal government or from any person, firm, or corporation.  (2) These gifts, grants, or donations shall be used for the purposes of the expansion or improvement of the public library.
AR Code § 13-2-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 4 - County Libraries|§ 13-2-406. Library services for outside the county — Fees for county public libraries

 (a) Any county public library may extend the privilege and use of the library and library services to persons residing outside the county upon the terms and conditions as the library boards may prescribe by regulation or policy.  (b) In addition, reasonable reimbursements may be collected by the county public library for providing any special library services beyond the customary library services, provided that they are determined in advance and in writing by the library board, if a board has been created.
AR Code § 13-2-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 4 - County Libraries|§ 13-2-407. Joint city-county and regional public library systems

 (a)  (1) Any county library board, with the consent of its county quorum court, the board of trustees of any municipal public library, any group of municipal public libraries, and any combination of counties and cities may contract with each other or among themselves to create, maintain, and support a joint city-county public library system or regional public library system or may enter into an interlocal cooperation agreement among themselves to coordinate public library services among the different jurisdictions.  (2) Such a contract, interlocal agreement, or other arrangement shall contain terms, agreements, and conditions as may be agreed upon by the county library board, the county quorum court, and the board of trustees of the several municipalities with the final approval of the governing body of the cities.  (3) The expenses of the regional public library system or the cooperating libraries shall be apportioned between or among the entities concerned on such a basis as shall be agreed upon in the ordinance, contract, arrangement, or interlocal agreement.  (4) The library system headquarters building shall be located at a place in one (1) of the counties to be agreed upon by the quorum courts of the various counties in the regional public library or with a cooperating library system.    (b) Any county library board may contract with an entity to provide library services at any location.  (c) Any joint city-county public library system or regional public library system may extend the privilege and use of the library and library services to persons residing outside the several jurisdictions of the library system upon the terms and conditions as the several library boards may prescribe by regulations or policy.  (d)  (1) If not provided for by the library system or by one (1) of the participating jurisdictions of the library system, all eligible employees of a joint city-county library or a regional public library system shall be entitled to the comparable retirement and fringe benefit coverage as are other county employees in the headquarters county.  (2) Costs for these benefits shall be apportioned among the participating jurisdictions of the joint city-county library or a regional public library system.
AR Code § 13-2-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 4 - County Libraries|§ 13-2-408. Injuries to county public library property — Penalty

 (a) In addition to any penalties prescribed and notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in the Arkansas Library Materials Security Law, § 13-2-801 et seq., the county quorum court shall have the power to pass ordinances imposing suitable penalties for the punishment of persons committing injury upon library grounds or property or injuring or failing to return any book, periodical, or property belonging to the library.  (b) The county library board or the county librarian may refuse the use of the library to such offenders.
AR Code § 13-2-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 13 - Libraries, Archives, and Cultural Resources|Chapter 2 - Libraries|Subchapter 4 - County Libraries|§ 13-2-409. County library tax petition — Filing fee

 When a petition is filed as authorized in Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 38, as amended by Amendment 72, to submit to the electors of a county the question of levying, increasing, decreasing, or repealing a county library tax and the petition or the sponsor of the petition requests that the question be submitted at a special election, the sponsor of the petition may be required by the county quorum court to pay a filing fee not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) which shall be used to offset a portion of the cost of calling and conducting the special election.