What's happening
This bill requires New York public libraries with over 100,000 items to establish and publish clear collection management and deaccession policies.
Why it matters
Promotes transparency and accountability. By requiring libraries to publish their collection management and deaccession policies, the bill ensures that the public can understand how and why materials are added or removed, reducing the risk of arbitrary decisions or hidden agendas.
Standardizes library practices. Mandating uniform processes for managing and deaccessioning materials creates consistency across large public libraries, potentially improving the quality and fairness of these practices statewide.
Protects diverse and special collections. The requirement to specifically address brittle materials, special collections, duplicates, and outdated materials helps safeguard valuable or at-risk items and ensures thoughtful consideration before removal.
State oversight and guidance. By directing the education commissioner to set rules and regulations, the bill ensures expert oversight and regular updates to best practices, which may help libraries adapt to changing technology and public needs.
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Libraries Must Publish Collection Policy
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- Referred to libraries and education technology
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6863
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 22, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to library collections management policy
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 260-d to read as follows:
§ 260-d. Collection management policy. 1. Every public library in the state with a collection of more than one hundred thousand items shall develop and publish a collections management policy, which shall ensure the integrity of collections by the development of a clear deaccessioning policy, which will foster public access and accountability. Such policies shall be the sole basis for collections management and deaccessioning. Such policies shall include uniform processes and procedures for deaccessioning or other disposition of any and all materials within the collection, including but not limited to brittle materials, special collections, duplicates, outdated materials and others.
2. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement this section.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03526-01-7
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