§ 29-6-4. Library councils.
In cities or towns having more than one free public library, the boards of trustees, or other governing bodies of the libraries in the city or town, may appoint an interlibrary committee to include the principal librarian of each of the libraries and one other representative of each of the libraries, the committee to be known as a “library council”. The library council is hereby authorized to prepare and submit on behalf of a city or town the plan required by the provisions of § 29-6-3 for division of the proposed annual grant-in-aid to the city or town among the free public libraries therein. The library council may also serve as a means for promoting interlibrary cooperation in the city or town, and is authorized to advise the free public libraries therein on all matters relating to cooperative or joint library services, and may make recommendations pertaining thereto.
History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 29-6-4; P.L. 1964, ch. 233, § 3.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 29-6 - State Aid to Libraries
Section 29-6-1. - Statement of policy.
Section 29-6-2. - Public library services.
Section 29-6-3. - Eligibility requirements — Municipalities.
Section 29-6-4. - Library councils.
Section 29-6-5. - Cooperative library services.
Section 29-6-6. - Construction and capital improvements.
Section 29-6-7. - State supported institutions.
Section 29-6-7.1, 29-6-7.2. - Repealed.
Section 29-6-8. - Eligibility requirements — Institutions.
Section 29-6-9. - Rhode Island library network.
Section 29-6-10. - Appropriation authorization.