Bill Text: FL S0608 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Library Innovation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-05-03 - Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability [S0608 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S0608-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                                     SB 608
       
       
       
       By Senator Brandes
       
       
       
       
       22-00803C-13                                           2013608__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to library innovation; establishing
    3         the Florida Innovative Libraries Grant; providing
    4         minimum criteria for grant eligibility; establishing
    5         report requirements; providing for disposition of
    6         digital files; creating the Statewide Innovative
    7         Libraries Task Force; establishing the purpose and
    8         composition of the task force; establishing duties for
    9         the task force; providing for future repeal unless
   10         reviewed and reenacted by the Legislature; providing
   11         for an appropriation; providing an effective date.
   12  
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   14  
   15         Section 1. Florida Innovative Libraries Grant.—Eligible
   16  public libraries may apply to the Division of Library and
   17  Information Services of the Department of State for a grant for
   18  the purpose of expanding the role of innovative technologies in
   19  serving the public.
   20         (1) The State Library Council shall establish eligibility
   21  criteria for applicants to the Florida Innovative Libraries
   22  Grant which include, but are not limited to, evidence of a
   23  legitimate community need and a statement specifying how the
   24  receipt of grant funds would satisfy this need and result in
   25  desired outcomes and demonstrating how new equipment,
   26  technology, software, or services will support at least one of
   27  the library’s desired outcomes and meet at least one of the
   28  purposes specified in the federal Library Services and
   29  Technology Act, 20 U.S.C. s. 9121.
   30         (2) Grant recipients shall submit to the division quarterly
   31  and annual reports while work under the grant is ongoing which
   32  detail public use of innovative technologies. Grant recipients
   33  shall also submit to the division a final report and any digital
   34  files and associated metadata created as a result of the grant
   35  project. The division shall make the digital files and
   36  associated metadata available on a publicly accessible website.
   37  The website shall also serve as a repository and clearinghouse
   38  for other information collected in the course of the grant
   39  project to assist public library systems in this state in
   40  expanding innovative technologies.
   41         Section 2. Statewide Innovative Libraries Task Force.—
   42         (1) There is created within the Department of State a
   43  Statewide Innovative Libraries Task Force.
   44         (2) The purpose of the task force is to assist in expanding
   45  the role of new technologies in existing libraries to help serve
   46  their respective communities in diverse formats; in
   47  transitioning libraries to encourage educational, business, and
   48  social functions; and in developing strategies to eliminate
   49  barriers to funding and other resources.
   50         (3) The task force is composed of seven members. Two
   51  members shall be members of the State Library Council, and the
   52  five remaining members shall be appointed by the Governor as
   53  representatives of the homeless, technology, architecture,
   54  education, and small business communities and must possess
   55  applicable private sector experience. The task force shall
   56  organize no later than September 1, 2013.
   57         (4) The task force shall develop a 10-year feasibility
   58  study that includes recommendations on transitioning the role of
   59  innovative technologies in libraries throughout the state and
   60  projections of the anticipated cost of the transition. The task
   61  force shall submit the feasibility study to the President of the
   62  Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives no later
   63  than February 1, 2014.
   64         (5) This section is repealed July 1, 2014, unless reviewed
   65  and reenacted by the Legislature on or before that date.
   66         Section 3. For the 2013-2014 fiscal year, the sum of
   67  $15,000 in nonrecurring funds is appropriated from the General
   68  Revenue Fund to the Department of State for purposes of
   69  administering the Statewide Innovative Libraries Task Force.
   70  Funds remaining unexpended or unencumbered from this
   71  appropriation as of June 30, 2014, shall revert to the General
   72  Revenue Fund.
   73         Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.