New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 15 - STATE › Chapter 22 - LIBRARY NETWORK SERVICES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 15:22-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Academic library" means a library within a publicly or privately supported institution of higher education.
"Council of members" means the voting representatives of the members of the library cooperative.
"Institutional library" means a library within an adult or juvenile residential facility or day training center, other than a public school, administered and substantially funded by State, county or municipal funds to carry out health, welfare, educational and correctional programs.
"Interlibrary loan" means a transaction between libraries, a form of resource sharing by which one library's collection is utilized by another library in response to a mediated request for a specific item on behalf of its users. The original or a copy of the item may be provided.
"Lay representative" means a New Jersey resident who is not eligible for a certificate as a professional librarian, associate educational media specialist or educational media specialist and is not in the employ of any New Jersey library or library-related agency defined in this chapter. Members of library boards of trustees shall be considered lay representatives.
"Library materials" means print and nonprint items.
"Library network" means all libraries in the library cooperative, the State Library, and any other libraries providing services to other libraries.
"Library region" means a multi-county area designated by the State Librarian as the geographic area within which libraries may establish a regional library cooperative.
"Library-related agency" means a county audio-visual aids commission established under N.J.S.A. 18A:51; learning resource center; regional curriculum services unit; or any other nonprofit organization meeting the criteria for membership in the regional library cooperative in accordance with 15:22-1.5(b).
"Local library cooperative" means a group of academic libraries, institutional libraries, public libraries, school libraries, special libraries and library-related agencies, or any combination thereof, which is organized as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to 15A:1-1 et seq. to provide cooperative or reciprocal library services.
"Multitype" means libraries of more than one type (academic, institutional, public, school and special) and library-related agencies.
"Public library" means a municipal, county, association, or joint library which receives public funding.
"Reference service" means the response to user needs by either mediated question handling or non-mediated access to information. A mediated reference transaction involves the use, recommendation or instruction in the use of one or more information sources, or referral to such sources elsewhere, by a member of the reference/information staff. A non-mediated reference transaction is the use of resources without the assistance of reference/information staff.
"Regional contract library" means a library, library-related agency, local library cooperative, or commercial vendor with which the regional library cooperative contracts for the purpose of providing regional library services.
"Regional library cooperative" means a membership organization of libraries and library-related agencies within a library region organized as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to 15A:1-1 et seq. which has agreed to provide and receive cooperative service and which has been designated a regional library cooperative by the State Librarian.
"Residents" means persons residing, employed, attending school, or who own property in New Jersey.
"School district" means an operating school district as listed in the current New Jersey State Department of Education directory. For the purposes of this program, every school (public and nonpublic) located within a district so listed shall be considered a member of the district.
"School library" means a library/media center within any publicly or privately supported elementary or secondary school, or in any post-secondary vocational or technical school.
"Special library" means a library/information center of a business, a professional, scientific, or trade association, a government, hospital or other for-profit or nonprofit institution or organization which provides that organization with information, library materials, and technical bibliographic and research services.
"State contract library" means a library, library-related agency, local library cooperative, or commercial vendor with which the State Library contracts for the purpose of providing library services.