24 Pa.C.S. § 9311 State Library and State Librarian

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-66
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 24 Pa.C.S. § 9311

(a) Appointment of State Librarian.--The department shall appoint a suitably qualified State Librarian to exercise the powers and duties set forth in this section, who shall also serve as Deputy Secretary for Libraries.

(b) Powers and duties.--The State Librarian shall have the power and duty to:

(1) Control, direct, supervise and manage the State Library as an agency providing information and fostering continuing education in the State education program.

(2) Maintain a law library as part of the State Library.

(3) Maintain a definitive, organized collection of all Commonwealth publications in the State Library, receive copies of all publications of all agencies of the Commonwealth and provide for the distribution of those publications to other libraries.

(4) Designate selected academic or local libraries within this Commonwealth as State government document depository libraries under criteria and regulations approved by:

(i) The advisory council.

(ii) The Joint Committee on Documents, in the case of documents published under the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769, No.240), referred to as the Commonwealth Documents Law.

(5) Coordinate a Statewide system of local libraries.

(6) Establish service standards for local libraries applying for aid under sections 9334 (relating to quality libraries aid) and 9335 (relating to incentive for excellence aid), which standards shall recognize and encourage the use and development of current and emerging technologies and concern the following:

(i) Minimum standards for number and quality of library staff.

(ii) Resources of books and other materials.

(iii) Hours of operation.

(iv) Continuing professional development.

(v) Collections expenditures.

(vi) Physical facilities.

(vii) Accessibility, including physical and electronic access to library materials.

(7) Advise local libraries, district library centers, Statewide library resource centers, municipalities and groups regarding:

(i) The selection of books, cataloging and other details of library management.

(ii) The location of new local libraries.

(iii) Those items listed in paragraph (6).