STLS Board of Trustees: Education & Advocacy Resources

STLS Board Membership & Standing Committees

Meeting Calendar & Meeting Minutes

Trustee Information Resources, Trustee Duties and Responsibilities, Advocacy, Fundraising & Laws and Regulations 

Trustee Information Resources

    New York State Information

• NYS Trustee handbook – General Responsibilities

• NY State Association of Library Boards - NYSALB

• Commissioner’s Decisions

• Comptroller’s Opinions

• NYS Attorney General’s Opinions

• One-on-one STLS Presentations to Member Boards

• New York State Division of Library Development

• New York Library Association Intellectual Freedom Manual, 2002

• Public Library Vote Toolbox (Mid-Hudson Library System)

• Toolkit for Boards

• Trustee Primer

    Other Resources

• Information for Public Library Trustees (Wisconsin Handbook)

• Tools for Trustees: The Georgia Public Library Trustee Manual

Trustee Duties and Responsibilities

• Conflicts of Interests – Defined in General Municipal Law

• Ethics Statement for Public Library Trustees

• Mid-Hudson Library System Trustee Resources

• The Trustee's Job - from the Georgia Public Library Trustee Manual

    -Trustees have five major areas of responsibility:  Finance, Policy , Planning , Personnel, Advocacy

• Trustee Duties – Trustee Handbook (Includes information on ethics and conflicts of interest)

• Statement on the Governance Role of a Trustee or Board Members 

Advocacy

• Association for Library Trustees and Advocates

• Friends of Libraries USA

• I Love Libraries - news, issues, legislation and advocacy

• Importance of Public Libraries

• Library Advocate's Handbook

• Long Overdue: A fresh look at attitudes about public libraries in the 21^st century   

• New Century Libraries Regents Legislative & Budget Initiative

• New York Center for Books and Reading

• New York Library Association: Legislation for Libraries in New York State

Fundraising

• April 24 Fundraising For Libraries -  Dale Wexell

• The Foundation Center: Helping grantseekers succeed, helping grantmakers make a difference

• Friends of Libraries USA - Good ideas from the Network

• Friends of Libraries USA - Fundraising

• Friends of Scarborough Library Fundraisers

• Funding for Libraries - Links and Resources

• Fundraising Training Kit from the Southern Ontario Library System

• Marketing and PR; Advocacy; Fundraising

• Nonprofit Fundraising and Grant Writing

Laws and Regulations

PowerPoint Presentation: Legal Issues and Libraries from the May, 2007 Trustee Seminar by Jerry Nichols

New York State

• Public Library Law in New York State

  • Public Library Law in New York State, rev 2006

  • Excerpts from New York State Law and Regulations of the Commissioner of Education pertaining to Libraries, Library Systems, Trustees and Librarians

  • Law Pamphlet 9 – Education Corporations

  • Open Meetings Law

  • Freedom of Information Law

   

• Education Law - critical sections

  • Section 216 - Charters

  • Section 226 - Powers and Duties of Trustees

  • Section 253 - Definition of a Public Library

  • Section 254 - Standards

  • Section 255 - Establishment

  • Section 259 - Taxation

  • Section 260 - Powers of Trustees; school district library authority

  • Section 272 - Library Systems

updated 06/19/2008