SECTIONS 18810 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 18810

18810. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
indicates or unless specific exception is made, the following
definitions apply:
(a) "Academic library" means a library established and maintained
by a college or university or other postsecondary institution to meet
the educational needs of its students, faculty, staff, and others by
agreement.
(b) "Act" means the Library of California Act.
(c) "Direct loan" means the lending of a book or other item, or
furnishing a copy directly to a borrower, in person or through
electronic means.
(d) "Document delivery" means the transmission, in response to a
request, of information from one library to another, in either a
physical or digital format.
(e) "Electronic direct access" means the provision of electronic
borrowing, or electronic document delivery services directly to
library users, or both.
(f) "Information agencies" means institutions that provide or
preserve, or both, information resources, such as archives,
historical societies, libraries, and museums.
(g) "Institution" means a business or corporation, college,
correctional facility, education agency, governmental agency,
hospital, not-for-profit organization, professional association,
school district, or other organized group that is authorized by law
and that operates one or more libraries. These libraries would be
academic, school, or special libraries located in California. For the
purposes of this act, if an institution is a member of a regional
library network and a library of that institution decides to
participate in a regional library network and meets the eligibility
standards, but is located within the geographic boundaries of a
network that is different from the network within which the
institution is located, that library shall be a participating library
in the regional network within which it is located.
(h) "Interlibrary loan" means the lending or providing of a book
or other item, or furnishing a copy, from one library to another
library that is under a different jurisdictional or institutional
administration as the result of a request for the item from its
primary clientele.
(i) "Interlibrary reference" means the providing of information by
one library or reference center to another library or reference
center that is under a different jurisdictional or institutional
administration as the result of a request from its primary clientele
for information that is beyond that library's mission and resources.
(j) "Library user" means a Californian who is part of the primary
clientele of a library but does not work for that library.
(k) "Network region" means a geographic subdivision of California
within which libraries organize as a regional library network under
this act for the purpose of resource sharing and mutual cooperation.
Boundaries of network regions are determined on the basis of the
following criteria: public library jurisdictional boundaries;
commonality with boundaries of educational institutions; recognition
of current transportation, marketing, and communication patterns;
location of and access to library resources; adequacy of resources
for resource sharing purposes; and population.
(l) "Participating library" means the libraries of a public
library jurisdiction that is a member of a regional library network
or a library of an institution that is a member of a regional library
network if that library decides to participate in a regional library
network and meets the eligibility standards set forth in Section
18830.
(m) "Patron referral" means the accepted procedure among libraries
by which onsite services are made available in an appropriate format
to people who would otherwise not be able to utilize them.
(n) "Preservation" means the prevention or delay of deterioration
of, and damage to, archival and library materials through the
appropriate environmental controls or treatment, or both. For the
purposes of this chapter, preservation encompasses conservation,
digitization, and duplication of endangered materials in a different
format.
(o) "Primary clientele" means the people for whom the library has
been established to provide services. It includes people served by
different outlets of its jurisdiction or institution. A person may be
a member of the primary clientele of more than one type of library.
(p) "Public library" means a library, or two or more libraries,
operated by a single public jurisdiction to meet the needs of its
primary clientele and others by agreement.
(q) "Public library jurisdiction" means a county, city and county,
city or any district that is authorized by law to provide public
library services and that operates a public library.
(r) "Regional library council" means the administrative body over
each regional library network, on which all members are represented.
(s) "Regional library network" means a not-for-profit, cooperative
organization established by the Library of California Board composed
of libraries within the public library jurisdictions or institutions
that choose to become members and agree to share resources and
services with, or to provide resources and services to, or both,
other members of the regional library network.
(t) "Resources" are library materials that include, but are not
limited to, print, nonprint materials and microformats; network
resources such as software, hardware, and equipment; electronic and
magnetic records; data bases; communication technology; facilities;
and human expertise.
(u) "School library" means a library that is established to
support the curriculum-related research and instructional reading
needs of pupils and teachers and provides the collections, related
equipment, and instructional services of a staff for an elementary or
secondary school.
(v) "Special library" means a library that is maintained by a
parent organization to serve a specialized clientele; or an
independent library that may provide specialized materials or
services, or both, in a specific subject to the public, a segment of
the public, or other libraries. It is maintained by an association,
business or corporation, government agency, research institution,
learned society, not-for-profit organization, professional
association, museum, industrial enterprise, chamber of commerce, or
other organized group and is characterized by its depth of subject
coverage.
(w) "Statewide resource library group" means those libraries in
California that have the most comprehensive or specialized resources,
or both, in topics needed by people statewide or regionally and that
agree to provide access to their resources to all members of all
regional library networks.
(x) "State board" means the Library of California Board.
(y) "Type of library" means academic, public, school, or special
library.
(z) "Underserved" means any population segment with service needs
not adequately met by traditional library service patterns;
including, but not limited to: children, disabled, economically
displaced, ethnic and culturally diverse populations, geographically
isolated, illiterate, institutionalized, non-English speaking, and
young adults.