BOARD
- Employ a competent and qualified director.
- Develop a long-range plan, vision and mission statements and review them periodically.
- Determine and adopt written policies governing operation and program of the library. Review policies periodically.
- Determine the goals and objectives of the library and methods of evaluating progress toward meeting them. Secure adequate funds to carry out the library's program.
- Establish, support, and participate in planned public relations and marketing program.
- Assist in preparation of the annual budget and approve it.
- Present the budget to the funding agency, public officials, and the general public; explain and defend it.
- Monitor budget expenditures during the fiscal year.
- Know local and state laws; actively support library legislation in the state and nation.
- Board governs.
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DIRECTOR
- Employ personnel with the board's input and supervise their work.
- Provide input to the Board on regional/national library issues and statewide trends in library management.
- Suggest needed policies for Board consideration. Carry out the policies as adopted by the Board.
- Prepare regular reports with library's current progress and future needs. Suggest and carry out plans for extending library's services.
- Maintain active public relations program.
- Prepare an annual budget in consultation with the Board. Give a current report of expenditures against the budget at each meeting.
- Closely follow the budget process. Provide leadership in supporting the budget.
- Oversee expenditures from budget including selection and ordering of all library materials and equipment.
- Know local and state laws; actively support library legislation in the state and nation.
- Director manages.
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