72nd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2003 Regular Session
 
NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within
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LC 1057
 
                         Senate Bill 12
 
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the
  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on
  General Government)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Eliminates reimbursements to libraries that make interlibrary
loans. Establishes matching grants or other assistance for
purposes of licensing electronic databases and facilitating
statewide ground delivery of library materials.
  Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2003.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to libraries; amending ORS 357.206, 357.209 and 357.212;
  and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 357.206 is amended to read:
  357.206. The state shall provide financial assistance for
library resource sharing activities to public { + , + }
 { - libraries - }  { +  school + } and academic libraries from
funds specifically appropriated therefor in order to implement
ORS 357.005 (2)(d), which provides for a statewide network of all
types of libraries. The grants shall be  { + provided only to
libraries that make interlibrary loans at no charge to other
public, school and academic libraries in this state and shall
be + } expended for one or more of the following purposes:
    { - (1) To reimburse a library that provides more
interlibrary loans of materials to other libraries than it
borrows for its own users; - }
   { +  (1) To provide matching grants and other assistance to
facilitate the statewide licensing of electronic databases for
all types of libraries; + }
  (2) To reimburse a library that serves as a regional center for
the referral of reference questions from other libraries { +  or
provides reference services in connection with a statewide
cooperative reference services project + }; and
    { - (3) To reimburse a public library that provides more
direct loans of materials to users of other public libraries than
its users receive from other public libraries. - }
   { +  (3) To provide matching grants or other assistance to
facilitate statewide ground delivery of library materials to
public, school and academic libraries. + }
  SECTION 2. ORS 357.209 is amended to read:
  357.209. The Trustees of the State Library shall administer the
provisions of ORS 357.203 to 357.212 and shall adopt rules
governing the application for and granting of funds. Funds
granted for reference services by one library for other libraries
may be arranged by contract.   { - Amounts granted in
reimbursement for the cost of lending materials must be related
to the number of service transactions provided by a library to
users of other libraries that exceed the number of transactions
received by users of the library from other libraries to be
calculated at least on an annual basis. - }
  SECTION 3. ORS 357.212 is amended to read:
  357.212. Public libraries, established in accordance with ORS
357.410,  { + school libraries + } or any academic library in
Oregon may apply for resource sharing grants on an annual basis.
  SECTION 4.  { + This 2003 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2003 Act takes effect July 1,
2003. + }
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