(55 ILCS 5/5-38007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-38007)
Sec. 5-38007.
Powers and duties of board.
The county library
board shall (a) establish, equip and maintain a
county library; (b) establish, equip and maintain branches and stations of
the county library in the various parts of the county; (c) acquire and
circulate books, periodicals, pamphlets, musical scores and records,
pictures, stereopticon slides, motion picture films, and other educational
material; (d) receive and administer legacies and gifts of real
and personal property; (e) appoint a county librarian and necessary
assistants and employees, and fix their compensation; (f) make, alter and
amend, from time to time, reasonable by-laws, rules and regulations for the
operation of the public county library service; and (g) do all other things
necessary to carry on an efficient public county library service.
In establishing, equipping and maintaining branches or stations of the
county library, the county library board may, if deemed advisable,
contract, in writing, with existing libraries to serve as such branches or
stations.
Whenever a county library board which has been duly appointed may desire
to erect a library building, or to purchase a building or a site, or both,
for a library, or to accumulate a fund for either or both of these
purposes, it shall proceed in the manner provided for the carrying out of
similar purposes in "An Act in relation to free public libraries for
cities, villages, incorporated towns and townships and to repeal Acts and
parts of Acts therein named", approved July 12, 1965, as amended.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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