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WV Code § 10-1-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-14. Same. -- Powers and Duties

The commission shall give assistance, advice and counsel to all school, state-institutional, free and public libraries, and to all communities in the state which may propose to establish libraries, as to the best means of establishing and administering them, selecting and cataloging books, and other details of library management, and may send any of its members to aid in organizing such libraries or assist in the improvement of those already established.It may also receive gifts of money, books, or other property which may be used or held for the purpose or purposes given; and may purchase and operate traveling libraries under such conditions and rules as the commission deems necessary to protect the interests of the state and best increase the efficiency of the service it is expected to render the public.It may purchase suitable books for traveling libraries and distribute them as needed to those persons and places in the state without adequate public library service. It may collect books and other suitable library matter and distribute the same among state institutions desiring the same.The commission may issue and offer for sale printed material, such as lists and circulars of information, and in the publication thereof may cooperate with other state Library Commissions and libraries, in order to secure the more economical administration of the work for which it was formed. It may conduct courses of library instruction and hold librarians' institutes in various parts of the state.The commission shall perform such other service in behalf of public libraries as it may consider for the best interests of the state.
WV Code § 10-1-14a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-14a. West Virginia Program for Open Education Resources; Material Description

(a)(1) The State Library Commission shall establish the West Virginia Program for Open Education Resources to encourage and facilitate the use of open education resource materials in both higher education and kindergarten through 12th grade in West Virginia schools.(2) "Open education resource materials" means teaching, learning and resource materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits low cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.(b) The Library Commission, in consultation with the Higher Education Policy Commission, the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education and the State Superintendent of Schools, or his or her designee, shall:(1) Ascertain what institutions or faculty are currently using OER material.(2) Identify material currently associated with core general education courses and readily available for use by faculty and institutions;(3) Identify any statutory or other impediments which interfere with selection and use of OER material by administrators or teachers at all levels of instruction in West Virginia schools;(4) Identify sources of potential grants for funding for teachers and institutions to use open education resources for classes and courses, and propose a competitive application system to award grant funding for those faculty and institutions seeking to use the materials;(5) Establish a digital clearing house that will function as a publicly-accessible database for material;(6) Develop strategies to leverage further open resource material to benefit higher education institutions and school systems, as well as private and foundation support for the project; and(7) Report no later than July 1st of each year the programs findings, progress and recommendations to the Legislative Manager, the Governor, and the chairs of the Legislatures House and Senate Committees on Education.
WV Code § 10-1-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-15. State Library Commission -- Disposition of Monetary Gifts

If any sums of money are received by the commission as gifts, they shall be paid into the state Treasury and used exclusively for carrying out the provisions of this article, and paying expenses of the commissioners. The commission shall expend no sums unless they are available by gift, appropriation or otherwise.
WV Code § 10-1-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-16. Regional Libraries and Library Areas -- Establishment and Location

The West Virginia Library Commission is hereby authorized to develop a plan for the establishment and location of regional libraries, and library areas throughout the state, based on a detailed survey to be made by the commission of the needs of the various localities of the state. A region shall include two or more counties.
WV Code § 10-1-17 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-17. Regional Libraries and Library Areas -- Referral of Plan to County Courts; Action On; Alteration of Plan

On completion of the survey of any proposed region, the executive secretary of the commission shall refer the proposal to the county courts of all the counties included in such proposed region. The county courts shall act upon such proposal by resolution, and the votes of a majority of each of the county courts of the counties included in the proposed region shall be necessary for the adoption of such proposal. In case of the rejection of such proposal by the county courts of any of the counties included in such proposed region, the Library Commission is hereby authorized to alter its plan in accordance with such action in order to provide for a region in such section of the state. The vote of a majority of each county court in the counties in such altered region shall be necessary for the adoption of such proposal.
WV Code § 10-1-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-18. Regional Libraries and Library Areas -- Powers of West Virginia Library Commission

The West Virginia Library Commission shall have the following powers for the establishment and maintenance of regional areas and regional libraries:(a) To establish, maintain, and operate a public library for the region;(b) To appoint a librarian and the necessary assistants, and to fix their compensation, such appointments to be based upon merit and efficiency as determined by the commission. The librarian shall hold a certificate from an approved school of library science and shall have had not less than three years of practical experience in library work. Said Library Commission shall also have the power to remove said librarian and other assistants;(c) To purchase books, periodicals, equipment and supplies;(d) To purchase sites and erect buildings, and/or to lease suitable quarters, and to have supervision and control of said property;(e) To borrow books from and lend books to other libraries;(f) To enter into contracts to receive service from or give service to libraries within or without the region and to give service to municipalities without the region which have no libraries, or to cooperate with and aid generally without such contracts, public school, institutional and other libraries;(g) To make such bylaws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with this article as may be expedient for the government of such regional library areas and the regional libraries therein, and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article;(h) To accept for the State of West Virginia any appropriations of money that may hereafter be made out of the federal treasury by an act or acts of Congress and to disburse such funds for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article, in accordance with sections eleven and twelve, article ten, chapter eighteen of the code of one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended.
WV Code § 10-1-18a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-18a. Establishment of State Publications Clearinghouse; Definitions; Powers of West Virginia Library Commission; Designations by State Agencies

(a) There is hereby established the state depository library clearinghouse which shall be under the direction of the state Library Commission.(b) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) "Public document" means any document, report, directive, bibliography, rule, newsletter, pamphlet, brochure, periodical, request for proposal, or other publication, whether in print or an unprinted format, that is paid for, in whole or in part, by funds appropriated by the Legislature and may be subject to distribution to the public;(2) "Depository library" means a library designated to collect, catalog, maintain and make available all or particular selected state publications to the general public; and(3) "State agency" means any state office, whether legislative, executive or judicial, including, but not limited to, any Constitutional officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission or other agency which expends state appropriated funds.(c) The state Library Commission shall establish a state depository library clearinghouse to receive and distribute all state public documents to the depository libraries around the state.(d) The commission shall designate a state library staff member as director of the state publications clearinghouse for librarians. The director shall hold a graduate degree in library science from an accredited institution of higher learning. The clearinghouse shall establish requirements for eligibility to become and remain a depository library.(e) In designating a library as a depository library the clearinghouse shall consider the geography of the state and the existing federal depository libraries. West Virginia University library, Marshall University library and the state department of archives shall be designated as complete depository libraries that shall receive two copies of all public documents. The clearinghouse shall also, pursuant to the requirements it establishes hereunder, designate other libraries around the state as depository libraries, upon request from a library.(f) Each state agency shall designate one person as its documents officer while notifying the clearinghouse of his or her identity. The documents officer shall, prior to the public release of any state public document, deposit with the clearinghouse a minimum of fifteen copies as required to meet the needs of the depository library system. If fewer than forty copies of a public document are produced, no more than two such copies are required to be deposited with the clearinghouse.
WV Code § 10-1-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-19. Regional Libraries and Library Areas -- Transfer of Certain Libraries to Library Commission

After the establishment of a regional library area or regional library, as provided for in this article, the county court, legislative body of any city or town, the board of Education of any county, or any other governing body of any political subdivision of this state, already maintaining a public, school or county library, may notify the West Virginia Library Commission and such county, city or town, or other subdivision library may be transferred to, leased to, or used by said Library Commission for regional library purposes under such terms as may be mutually agreed upon between the said Library Commission and the respective county courts, legislative bodies of cities or towns, boards of education, or governing bodies of other political subdivisions.
WV Code § 10-1-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-20. Aid to Libraries by Library Commission

The West Virginia Library Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to render such aid and assistance, financial, advisory and/or otherwise, to public, school, county, or regional libraries, whether established or maintained by said Library Commission or not, under such conditions and rules and regulations as the said commission deems necessary to further the interests of the state and best increase the efficiency of the service it is expected to render the public.Having determined that the development and support of such libraries will further the education of the people of the state as a whole and will thereby aid in the discharge of the responsibility of the state to encourage and foster education, the West Virginia Library Commission is authorized and empowered to pay over and contribute to any board of library directors created and maintained pursuant to the provisions of this article or any special act of the Legislature such sum or sums of money as may be available from funds included in appropriations made for the West Virginia Library Commission for such purpose. The amount of any such payment or contribution by the commission to any such local library board of directors shall be determined in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commission. The Library Commission shall have authority to promulgate rules and regulations governing the manner in which such amount or amounts of money shall be accounted for and expended.
WV Code § 10-1-21 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-21. Collection and Preservation of Library Data; Surveys; Employment of Personnel; Use of Data

The West Virginia Library Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to collect and preserve statistics and other data, concerning libraries of any sort located within this state; to make surveys relating to the needs or conditions of such libraries or the library conditions of any city, town, county, regional library area, or other subdivision of this state; and to publish the results and findings thereof in accordance with the provisions of section fourteen of this article. The commission may employ all necessary personnel for any of these purposes, such appointments to be based on merit and efficiency as determined by the commission. Such data, surveys and findings of the Library Commission shall be available to all school, public, institutional, regional and/or other libraries within this state, whether proposed or established.
WV Code § 10-1-22 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-22. Confidential Nature of Certain Library Records

(a) Circulation and similar records of any public library in this state which identify the user of library materials are not public records but shall be confidential and may not be disclosed except:(1) To members of the library staff in the ordinary course of business, including paid employees and unpaid volunteers upon completing a written confidentiality agreement which shall prevent disclosure of circulation records, personal information, and similar records of any public library except to the extent allowed under this subsection and obtaining written permission from the library director of the library system wherein he or she will be working;(2) Upon written consent of the user of the library materials or the user's parents or guardian if the user is a minor or ward; or(3) Upon appropriate court order or subpoena.(b) Any disclosure authorized by subsection (a) of this section or any unauthorized disclosure of materials made confidential by that subsection (a) does not in any way destroy the confidential nature of that material, except for the purpose for which an authorized disclosure is made. A person disclosing material as authorized by subsection (a) of this section is not liable therefor.
WV Code § 10-1-24 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1. Public Libraries|§10-1-24. Library Facilities Improvement Fund

(a) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund known as the “Library Facilities Fund”. Expenditures from the fund shall be for the purposes set forth in this section. The fund shall be administered by the West Virginia Library Commission. (b) The fund shall consist of moneys received from the following sources:(1) All appropriations made by the Legislature to the fund;(2) Any moneys available from sources outside the West Virginia Library Commission;(3) Repayment of loans made by the West Virginia Library Commission pursuant to this section; and(4) All interest and other income earned from investment of moneys in the fund.(c) The West Virginia Library Commission shall utilize moneys in the fund to support public library facilities construction, renovation, maintenance and improvement projects. The West Virginia Library Commission shall evaluate potential recipient projects of funds from the fund on a competitive basis.(1) The West Virginia Library Commission may provide loans to public libraries to support energy savings and critical maintenance projects with moneys in the fund.(2) With the exception of loans made under this section, the West Virginia Library Commission may not expend any money from the fund toward a particular project unless the proposed expenditure is matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis by other sources.(d) The West Virginia Library Commission shall propose a rule for legislative approval in accordance with §29A-3-1 et seq. of this code to implement the provisions of this section. The rule shall contain at least the following:(1) A process for submitting and reviewing proposals;(2) The content of proposals;(3) Criteria for evaluating proposals; and(4) Other provisions the West Virginia Library Commission considers necessary to administer the program in accordance with this section.(e) Any balance, including accrued interest and any other returns, in the fund at the end of each fiscal year will not expire to the General Revenue Fund but remain in the fund and be expended for the purposes provided by this section.(f) In a given year, the West Virginia Library Commission may not allocate an amount in excess of four percent of the balance of the fund on December 31st of the immediately preceding calendar year for administrative expenses.(g) The West Virginia Library Commission may invest any or all of the balance of the fund with the state’s Consolidated Investment Fund.
WV Code § 10-1A-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1A. Interstate Library Compact|§10-1A-2. Restrictions Relating to Outlay of Public Funds

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 a library pursuant to Article III, subsection (c), subdivision (7) of the compact, nor pledge its credit in support of such a library or contribute to the capital financing thereof, except after compliance with any laws applicable to such counties, municipalities or other political subdivisions of this state relating to or governing capital outlays and the pledging of credit.
WV Code § 10-1A-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1A. Interstate Library Compact|§10-1A-3. State Library Agency Defined

As used in the compact, "state library agency," with reference to this state, means the West Virginia Library Commission as designated in section twelve, article one of this chapter.
WV Code § 10-1A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1A. Interstate Library Compact|§10-1A-4. Interstate Library Districts; State and Federal Aid

An interstate library district lying partly within this state may claim and be entitled to receive state aid in support of any of its functions to the same extent and in the same manner as such functions are eligible for support when carried on by entities wholly within this state. For the purposes of computing and apportioning state aid to an interstate library district, this state will consider that portion of the area which lies within this state as an independent entity for the performance of the aided function or functions and compute and apportion the aid accordingly. Subject to any applicable laws of this state, such a district also may apply for and be entitled to receive any federal aid for which it may be eligible.
WV Code § 10-1A-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1A. Interstate Library Compact|§10-1A-5. Compact Administrator

The Governor shall appoint an officer or employee of this state who shall be the compact administrator pursuant to Article X of the compact.
WV Code § 10-1A-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 1A. Interstate Library Compact|§10-1A-6. Withdrawal

In the event of withdrawal from the compact, the Governor shall send and receive any notices required by Article XI, subsection (b) of the compact.
WV Code § 10-2-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 10. Public Libraries; Public Recreation; Athletic Establishments; Monuments and Memorials; Roster of Servicemen; Educational Broadcasting Authority|Article 2. Public Recreation and Playgrounds|§10-2-1. Definitions

(a) The term "governing body" as used in this article shall be construed to mean any city council, city commission, county court, or body acting in lieu thereof, or county board of education in the State of West Virginia; (b) the term "governmental division" when hereinafter used in this article shall be construed to mean any city, town, county, or school district in the State of West Virginia; (c) the term "board" when hereinafter used in this article shall be construed to mean any board, commission, committee, or council appointed or designated to carry out the provisions of this article.