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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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