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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The State Library Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 7 as follows:
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| 6 | | (15 ILCS 320/7) (from Ch. 128, par. 107)
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| 7 | | Sec. 7. Purposes of the State Library. The Illinois State |
| 8 | | Library shall:
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| 9 | | (a) Maintain a library for officials and employees of the |
| 10 | | State, consisting
of informational material and resources |
| 11 | | pertaining to the phases of their work,
and serve as the |
| 12 | | State's library by extending its resources to citizens of
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| 13 | | Illinois.
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| 14 | | (b) Maintain and provide research library services for all |
| 15 | | State agencies.
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| 16 | | (c) Administer the Illinois Library System Act.
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| 17 | | (d) Promote and administer the law relating to Interstate |
| 18 | | Library Compacts.
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| 19 | | (e) Enter into interagency agreements, pursuant to the |
| 20 | | Intergovernmental
Cooperation Act, including agreements to |
| 21 | | promote access to information by
Illinois students and the |
| 22 | | general public.
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| 23 | | (f) Promote and develop a cooperative library network |
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| 1 | | operating
regionally or statewide for providing effective |
| 2 | | coordination of the
library resources of public, academic, |
| 3 | | school, and special libraries.
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| 4 | | (g) Administer grants of federal library funds pursuant to
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| 5 | | federal law and requirements.
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| 6 | | (h) Assist libraries in their plans for
library services, |
| 7 | | including funding the State-funded library systems
for the |
| 8 | | purpose of local library development and networking.
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| 9 | | (i) Assist local library groups in developing programs by |
| 10 | | which library
services can be established and enhanced in areas |
| 11 | | without those services.
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| 12 | | (j) Be a clearing house, in an advisory capacity, for |
| 13 | | questions and
problems pertaining to the administration and |
| 14 | | functioning of libraries in
Illinois and to publish booklets |
| 15 | | and pamphlets to
implement this service.
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| 16 | | (k) Seek the opinion of the Attorney General for legal |
| 17 | | questions
pertaining to public libraries and their function as |
| 18 | | governmental agencies.
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| 19 | | (l) Contract with any other library or library agency to |
| 20 | | carry out
the purposes of the State Library. If any such |
| 21 | | contract requires payments
by user libraries for goods and |
| 22 | | services, the State Library may distribute
billings from |
| 23 | | contractors to applicable user libraries and may receive and
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| 24 | | distribute payments from user libraries to contractors. There |
| 25 | | is hereby
created in the State Treasury the Library Trust Fund, |
| 26 | | into which all moneys
payable to contractors which are received |
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| 1 | | from user libraries under
this paragraph (l) shall be paid. The |
| 2 | | Treasurer shall pay such
funds to contractors at the direction |
| 3 | | of the State Librarian.
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| 4 | | (m) Compile, preserve and publish public library
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| 5 | | statistical information.
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| 6 | | (n) Compile the annual report of local public libraries and |
| 7 | | library
systems submitted to the State Librarian pursuant to |
| 8 | | law.
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| 9 | | (o) Conduct and arrange for library training programs for |
| 10 | | library
personnel, library directors and others involved in |
| 11 | | library services.
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| 12 | | (p) Prepare an annual report for each fiscal year.
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| 13 | | (q) Make available to the public, by means of access by way |
| 14 | | of the largest
nonproprietary nonprofit cooperative public |
| 15 | | computer network, certain records
of State agencies.
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| 16 | | As used in this subdivision (q), "State agencies"
means all |
| 17 | | officers, boards, commissions and agencies
created by the |
| 18 | | Constitution; all officers,
departments, boards, commissions, |
| 19 | | agencies, institutions, authorities,
universities, and bodies |
| 20 | | politic and corporate of the State; administrative
units or |
| 21 | | corporate outgrowths of the State government which are created |
| 22 | | by
or pursuant to statute, other than units of local government |
| 23 | | and their
officers, school districts and boards of election |
| 24 | | commissioners; and all
administrative units and corporate |
| 25 | | outgrowths of the above and as may be
created by executive |
| 26 | | order of the Governor; however, "State agencies" does not
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| 1 | | include any agency, officer, or other entity of the judicial or |
| 2 | | legislative
branch.
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| 3 | | As used in this subdivision (q), "records" means public |
| 4 | | records, as defined
in the Freedom of Information Act, that are |
| 5 | | not exempt from inspection and
copying under that Act.
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| 6 | | The State Librarian and each appropriate State agency shall |
| 7 | | specify the
types and categories of records that shall be |
| 8 | | accessible through the public
computer network and the types |
| 9 | | and categories of records that shall be
inaccessible. Records |
| 10 | | currently held by a State agency and documents that
are |
| 11 | | required to be provided to the Illinois State Library in |
| 12 | | accordance with
Section 21 shall be provided to the Illinois |
| 13 | | State Library in an appropriate
electronic format. The cost to |
| 14 | | each State agency of making
records accessible through the |
| 15 | | public computer network or of providing records
in an |
| 16 | | appropriate electronic format shall be considered in making
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| 17 | | determinations regarding accessibility.
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| 18 | | As soon as possible and no later than 18 months
after the |
| 19 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995,
the types and |
| 20 | | categories of information, specified
by the State Librarian and |
| 21 | | each appropriate State agency, shall be made
available to the |
| 22 | | public by means of access by way of
the largest nonproprietary, |
| 23 | | nonprofit cooperative public computer network. The
information |
| 24 | | shall be made available in one or more formats and by one or |
| 25 | | more
means in order to provide the greatest feasible access to |
| 26 | | the general public in
this State. Any person who accesses the |
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| 1 | | information may access all or any part
of the information. The |
| 2 | | information may also be made available by any other
means of |
| 3 | | access that would facilitate public access to the information. |
| 4 | | The
information shall be made available in the shortest |
| 5 | | feasible time after it is
publicly available.
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| 6 | | Any documentation that describes the electronic digital |
| 7 | | formats of the
information shall be made available by means of |
| 8 | | access by way of the same
public computer network.
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| 9 | | Personal information concerning a person who accesses the |
| 10 | | information may be
maintained only for the purpose of providing |
| 11 | | service to the person.
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| 12 | | The electronic public access provided by way of the public |
| 13 | | computer network
shall be in addition to other electronic or |
| 14 | | print distribution of the
information.
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| 15 | | No action taken under this subdivision (q) shall be deemed |
| 16 | | to alter or
relinquish any copyright or other proprietary |
| 17 | | interest or entitlement of the
State of Illinois relating to |
| 18 | | any of the information made available under this
subdivision |
| 19 | | (q).
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| 20 | | (r) Coordinate literacy programs for the Secretary of |
| 21 | | State.
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| 22 | | (s) Provide coordination of statewide preservation |
| 23 | | planning, act as a
focal point for preservation advocacy, |
| 24 | | assess statewide needs and establish
specific programs to meet |
| 25 | | those needs, and manage state funds appropriated
for |
| 26 | | preservation work relating to the preservation of the library |
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| 1 | | and
archival resources of Illinois.
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| 2 | | (t) Create and maintain a State Government Report |
| 3 | | Distribution Center for
the General Assembly. The Center shall |
| 4 | | receive all reports in electronic format all formats
available |
| 5 | | required by law or resolution to be filed with the General |
| 6 | | Assembly
and shall furnish copies of such reports on the same |
| 7 | | day on which the report is
filed with the Clerk of the House of |
| 8 | | Representatives and the Secretary of the
Senate, as required by |
| 9 | | the General Assembly Organization Act, without charge
to |
| 10 | | members of the General Assembly upon request. The Center shall |
| 11 | | also make paper copies of reports received under this |
| 12 | | subsection (t) available to members of the General Assembly |
| 13 | | upon request. This paragraph does not
affect the requirements |
| 14 | | of Section 21 of this Act relating to the deposit of
State |
| 15 | | publications with the State library.
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| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 91-507, eff. 8-13-99; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; |
| 17 | | 92-617, eff.
1-1-03.)
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| 18 | | Section 10. The General Assembly Organization Act is |
| 19 | | amended by changing Section 3.1 as follows:
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| 20 | | (25 ILCS 5/3.1) (from Ch. 63, par. 3.1)
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| 21 | | Sec. 3.1. Whenever any law or resolution requires a report |
| 22 | | to the General
Assembly, that reporting requirement shall be |
| 23 | | satisfied by filing one electronic copy
of the report with each |
| 24 | | of the following: the Speaker, the Minority Leader
and the |
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| 1 | | Clerk of the House of Representatives and the President, the |
| 2 | | Minority
Leader and the Secretary of the Senate and the |
| 3 | | Legislative Research
Unit. In addition, the reporting entity |
| 4 | | must make a copy of the report available for a reasonable time |
| 5 | | on its Internet site or on the Internet site of the public |
| 6 | | entity that hosts the reporting entity's World Wide Web page, |
| 7 | | if any. The reporting entity must also make paper copies of the |
| 8 | | report available upon request. Additional electronic
copies |
| 9 | | shall be filed with the State Government Report Distribution |
| 10 | | Center
for the General Assembly as required under paragraph (t) |
| 11 | | of Section 7 of
the State Library Act.
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| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 94-565, eff. 1-1-06.)
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