New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 4 - CULTURAL RESOURCES › Chapter 5 - STATE LIBRARY › Part 8 - DISTRIBUTION OF GENERAL OBLIGATION STATE OF NEW MEXICO BOND FUNDS TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES › Section 4.5.8.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Annual
				report"
means the report required annually by the state library from a
				public library.
B.
"Authorized expenditure period"
means the period from when a purchase
				order is approved by the cultural affairs department until ninety (90) days
				prior to the ending date specified in the authorizing legislation.
C.
"Basic public library
				services"
means services provided by a local public library that include
				circulating library collections, basic reference service, and educational
				programs.
D.
"Equipment"
means computers, software and related peripherals; servers;
				thin client terminals; networks, including wireless networks;
				telecommunications; automation systems; and other equipment used to assist in
				meeting the information needs of a library's clients.
E.
"Fiscal year"
means July 1
				through June 30.
F.
"Legal
				service area"
means the geographic area for which a public library has
				been established to offer services and from which the library derives income.
				This includes the entire service area of the local public library or library
				system and does not include merely the general service area of any one branch.
				The most recent U.S. census determines the population of the legal service area
				if the population figures are given separately for that area. If the census
				does not have a discreet population figure for the legal service area, then the
				state library and the library whose population is at issue shall work together
				to arrive at a mutually acceptable population figure. If this is not possible,
				the state library in its sole discretion shall determine the population for the
				library's legal service area.
G.
"Library resources"
means library holdings intended for public
				use and the tools required to make the resources usable by the public. Library
				resources can include books, videos, DVDs, sound recordings, electronic and
				digital media, and information materials accessed via the internet.
H.
"Library system"
means the
				agency that is legally established to provide public library service to the
				legal service area population. A library system may have a single outlet or
				more than one outlet.
I.
"Local funding authority"
means local or sovereign governments
				recognized by the department of finance and administration.
J.
"Local public library"
means
				a New Mexico organization that offers basic public library services within its
				legal service area and is open to the public at least fifteen (15) hours per
				week and a minimum of two (2) days each week.
K.
"Rural library services"
means those services provided by the state library to persons in the state who
				do not have access to a local public library. These services include
				bookmobiles and the books-by-mail service.
L.
"Supplemental funds"
means
				funds that are provided from sources other than the regular library budget
				derived from the local funding authority. Supplemental funds are not intended
				to replace any part, or all, of the library's regular budget.