Bill Text: NY A03939 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3939 (Prior Session Legislation)

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
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                                         3939
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   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    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   12  COLLECTIONS, DUPLICATES, OUTDATED MATERIALS AND OTHERS.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