Librarian's Helper - Lewis & Clark Library System

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Page16years from the date of such refunding loan agreement, with interest on the unpaidprincipal balance at any lawful rate for municipal corporations in this State, except thatno installment contract or refunding loan agreement for the same property orconstruction project may exceed an aggregate of 20 years;• Remodel Facilities : To remodel or reconstruct a building erected or purchased by theboard, when such building is not adapted to its purposes or needs;• Surplus Items : To sell or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property that itdeems no longer necessary or useful for library purposes, and to lease to others any realproperty not immediately useful but for which plans for ultimate use have been or willbe adopted by the corporate authorities shall have the first right to purchase or leaseexcept that in the case of the City of Chicago, this power shall be governed and limitedby "An Act to authorize the Chicago public library to erect and maintain a public libraryon Dearborn Park in the city of Chicago, and to authorize the Soldiers' Home in Chicagoto sell and dispose of its interest in the north one-quarter of the said park", approvedJune 2, 1891, as amended;• Librarian : To appoint and to fix the compensation of a qualified librarian, who shall havethe authority to hire such other employees as may be necessary, to fix theircompensation, and to remove such appointees, subject to the approval of the board,but these powers are subject to Division 1 of Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code inmunicipalities in which that Division is in force. The board may also retain counsel andprofessional consultants as needed;• Contracts : To contract with any public or private corporation or entity for the purposeof providing or receiving library service or of performing any and all other acts necessaryand proper to carry out the responsibilities, the spirit, and the provisions of this Act. Thiscontractual power includes, but is not limited to, participating in interstate librarycompacts and library systems, contracting to supply library services, and expending ofany federal or State funds made available to any county, municipality, township or tothe State of Illinois for library purposes. However, if a contract is for the supply of libraryservices for residents without a public library established under the provisions of thisact, the terms of that contract will recognize the principle of equity or cost of services tonon-residents expressed in this Section of this Act, and will provide for the assumptionby the contracting party receiving the services of financial responsibility for the loss ofor damage to any library materials provided to non-residents under the contract;• Cooperation : To join with the board or boards of any one or more libraries in this Statein maintaining libraries, or for the maintenance of a common library or common libraryservices for participants, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by and between theboards;• Contracts : To enter into contracts and to take title to any property acquired by it forlibrary purposes by the name and style of "The Board of Library Trustees of the (city,village, incorporated town or township) of...." and by that name to sue and be sued;
Page17• Expulsion : To exclude from the use of the library any person who wilfully violates therules prescribed by the board;• Non-residents : To extend the privileges and use of the library, including the borrowingof materials on an individual basis by persons residing outside of the city, incorporatedtown, village or township. If the board exercises this power, the privilege of library useshall be upon such terms and conditions as the board shall from time to time by itsregulations prescribe, and for such privileges and use, the board shall charge anonresident fee at least equal to the cost paid by residents of the city, incorporatedtown, village or township, with the cost to be determined according to the formulaestablished by the Illinois State Library. A person residing outside of a public libraryservice area must apply for a non-resident library card at the public library locatedclosest to the person's principal residence. The nonresident cards shall allow forborrowing privileges at all participating public libraries in the regional library system.The nonresident fee shall not apply to privilege and use provided under the terms of thelibrary's membership in a library system operating under the provisions of the IllinoisLibrary System Act, under the terms of any reciprocal agreement with a public or privatecorporation or entity providing a library service, or to a nonresident who as an individualor as a partner, principal stockholder, or other joint owner owns taxable property or is asenior administrative officer of a firm, business, or other corporation owning taxableproperty within the city, incorporated town, village or township upon the presentationof the most recent tax bill upon that taxable property, provided that the privilege anduse of the library is extended to only one such nonresident for each parcel of suchtaxable property. Nothing in this item 12 requires any public library to participate in thenon-resident card reciprocal borrowing program of a regional library system as providedfor in this Section;• Eminent Domain : To exercise the power of eminent domain subject to the priorapproval of the corporate authorities under Sections 5-1 and 5-2 of this Act;• Associations : To join the public library as a member and to join the library trustees asmembers in the Illinois Library Association and the American Library Association,non-profit, non-political, (501-C-3) associations, as designated by the federal InternalRevenue Service, having the purpose of library development and librarianship; toprovide for the payment of annual membership dues, fees and assessments and act by,through and in the name of such instrumentality by providing and disseminatinginformation and research services, employing personnel and doing any and all other actsfor the purpose of improving library development;• Investment : To invest funds pursuant to "An Act relating to certain investments ofpublic funds by public agencies", approved July 23, 1943, as amended;• Reserve Fund : To accumulate and set apart as reserve funds portions of theunexpended balances of the proceeds received annually from taxes or other sources, forthe purpose of providing self-insurance against liabilities relating to the public library.
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Page 35 and 36: Page35GRANT INFORMATIONA variety of
Page 37 and 38: Page37APPENDIX A: MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
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