(a)Any one or more public library agencies in a party state in cooperation with any public library agency or agencies in one or more other party states may establish and maintain an interstate library district. Subject to the provisions of this compact and any other laws of the party states that pursuant to this compact remain applicable, the district may establish, maintain, and operate some or all of the library facilities and services for the area concerned in accordance with the terms of a library agreement. Any private library agency or agencies within an interstate library district may cooperate with; assume duties, responsibilities and obligations of; and receive benefits from the district as provided in any library agreement to which such agency or agencies become party.
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(a) Any one or more public library agencies in a party state in cooperation with any public library agency or agencies in one or more other party states may establish and maintain an interstate library district. Subject to the provisions of this compact and any other laws of the party states that pursuant to this compact remain applicable, the district may establish, maintain, and operate some or all of the library facilities and services for the area concerned in accordance with the terms of a library agreement. Any private library agency or agencies within an interstate library district may cooperate with; assume duties, responsibilities and obligations of; and receive benefits from the district as provided in any library agreement to which such agency or agencies become party.
(b) Within an interstate library district, and as provided by a library agreement, the performance of library functions may be undertaken on a joint or cooperative basis or may be undertaken by means of one or more arrangements between or among public or private library agencies for the extension of library privileges to the use of facilities or services operated or rendered by one or more of the individual library agencies.
(c) If a library agreement provides for joint establishment, maintenance, or operation of library facilities or services by an interstate library district, the district shall have power to do any one or more of the following in accordance with the library agreement:
(1) Undertake, administer, and participate in programs or arrangements for securing, lending, or servicing of books and other publications; any other materials suitable to be kept or made available by libraries; library equipment; or the dissemination of information about libraries, the value and significance of particular items in libraries, and the use of items.
(2) Accept for any of its purposes under this compact any and all donations and grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials, and services (conditional or otherwise), from any state of the United States or any subdivision or agency of a state, or interstate agency, or from any institution, person, firm, or corporation, and receive, utilize, and dispose of the same.
(3) Operate mobile library units or equipment for the purpose of rendering bookmobile service within the district.
(4) Employ professional, technical, clerical, and other personnel and fix terms of employment, compensation, and other appropriate benefits; and, where desirable, provide for the in-service training of the personnel.
(5) Sue and be sued in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(6) Acquire, hold, and dispose of any real or personal property or any interest or interests in property as may be appropriate to the rendering of library service.
(7) Construct, maintain, and operate a library, including any appropriate branches of a library.
(8) Do such other things as may be incidental to or appropriate for the carrying out of any of the powers enumerated in this subsection. (Added 1963, No. 119, § 2, eff. May 28, 1963; amended 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 242, eff. July 1, 2024.)