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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3939
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2011
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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 § 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12 collections, duplicates, outdated materials and others.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 § 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
