Bill Text: NY A03939 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires public libraries with collections of more than 100,000 items to develop and publish a collections management policy which shall ensure the integrity of collections by the development of a clear deaccessioning policy which will foster public access and accountability; provides that such policies shall include uniform processes and procedures for deaccessioning or other disposition of any and all materials within the collection.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to libraries and education technology [A03939 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A03939-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3939 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 31, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to library collections management policy THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 260-d 2 to read as follows: 3 S 260-D. COLLECTION MANAGEMENT POLICY. 1. EVERY PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE 4 STATE WITH A COLLECTION OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ITEMS SHALL 5 DEVELOP AND PUBLISH A COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT POLICY, WHICH SHALL ENSURE 6 THE INTEGRITY OF COLLECTIONS BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CLEAR DEACCESSION- 7 ING POLICY, WHICH WILL FOSTER PUBLIC ACCESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY. SUCH 8 POLICIES SHALL BE THE SOLE BASIS FOR COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT AND DEACCES- 9 SIONING. SUCH POLICIES SHALL INCLUDE UNIFORM PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES 10 FOR DEACCESSIONING OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF ANY AND ALL MATERIALS WITHIN 11 THE COLLECTION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BRITTLE MATERIALS, SPECIAL 12 COLLECTIONS, DUPLICATES, OUTDATED MATERIALS AND OTHERS. 13 2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS NECESSARY 14 TO IMPLEMENT THIS SECTION. 15 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07230-01-1