Title 41

The executive board shall make an annual report to the Governor. The report shall show public library conditions and progress in Alabama and a statement of the expenses and activities of the Public Library Service. These annual reports shall be printed as other annual reports of …

(a) The Alabama Public Library Service shall give advice to all free public, regional, municipal, and county libraries and to all communities in the state which may propose to establish public libraries, in the manner provided in this article, as to the best means of establishing…

The Executive Board of the Alabama Public Library Service may, upon such terms and conditions as it may fix, award scholarships or grants in the field of library science on the graduate or undergraduate level to persons of high integrity whom it may select to the extent that fund…

The Alabama Public Library Service shall each year obtain from all free public libraries in the State of Alabama reports showing the conditions, growth, development and conduct of said libraries. This provision shall not apply to the libraries of the Supreme Court of Alabama, the…

This article shall in no way affect the administration and supervision of public school libraries which have been or may hereafter be established by aid through the Department of Education, except by agreement, nor shall this article affect in any way the administration and super…

As used in Section 41-8-10, the term “registration records” includes any information which a library requires a patron to provide in order to become eligible to borrow books and other materials, and the term “circulation records” includes all information which identifies the patr…

As used in the compact, “state library agency” with reference to this state means the Alabama Public Library Service. (Acts 1973, No. 1121, p. 1884, §3.)

The Interstate Library Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with all states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: Article I. Policy and Purpose. Because the desire for the services provided by libraries transcends governmental …

The Director of the Alabama Public Library Service shall be the compact administrator pursuant to Article X of the compact. The Director of the Alabama Public Library Service may appoint one or more deputy compact administrators pursuant to said article. (Acts 1973, No. 1121, p. …

No county, municipality or other political subdivision of this state shall be party to a library agreement which provides for the construction or maintenance of a library pursuant to Article III, subdivision (c) 7 of the compact nor pledge its credit in support of such a library …

(a) An interstate library district lying partly within this state may claim and be entitled to receive state aid in support of any of its functions to the same extent and in the same manner as such functions are eligible for support when carried on by entities wholly within this …

In the event of withdrawal from the compact the Governor shall send and receive any notices required by Article XI (b) of the compact. (Acts 1973, No. 1121, p. 1884, §6.)

It is the intent of the Legislature that: (1) State publications of public interest be made available to the public. (2) An efficient distribution and depository system of state publications be established. (3) The preservation of all state publications having historical value be…

As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPOSITORY. An institution which contracts with the Alabama Public Library Service to participate in the state publications depository system. (2) STATE AGENCY. Any permanent or temporary state of…

There is created as a program of the Alabama Public Library Service, an Alabama Clearinghouse for State Publications. The clearinghouse shall establish and operate a state publications depository system for Alabama publications. The Alabama Public Library Service shall promulgate…

(a) The state printer or the responsible state agency shall forward at the expense of the agency at least nine copies of every state publication to the clearinghouse. The clearinghouse shall distribute these copies as follows: (1) Two to the Alabama Department of Archives and His…

(a) Every state agency shall designate one of its employees as the publications officer for the agency and notify the clearinghouse of the identity of the publications officer. (b) Each publications officer shall provide the clearinghouse with nine or more copies of each state pu…

(a) The clearinghouse may enter into depository contracts with any municipal or county public library, public library system, state agency, in-state college or university library, or out-of-state research libraries. The requirements for eligibility to contract as a depository lib…

The clearinghouse shall issue periodic lists of state publications to the depositories. (Acts 1993, No. 93-257, p. 384, §7.)

Funding for the clearinghouse program shall be from separate appropriations provided to the Alabama Public Library Service in a program entitled “Alabama Clearinghouse for State Publications.” This article shall not be implemented until the Alabama Public Library Service has dete…

This article shall not require state agencies to supply copies of publications produced prior to the implementation date of this article. (Acts 1993, No. 93-257, p. 384, §9.)