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The long-awaited Sunset Commission report is now available. Please click
on the link below to read it.
You may contact me with questions.
Laurie Mahaffey
Central Texas Library System, Inc.
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Subject: [syscon-tx] Texas Sunset Commission staff make recommendationsabout
Texas State Library
The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission today released its Staff Report on
the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The full report is posted on their Web site: www.sunset.state.tx.us/80.htm#lac.
In the report, they identified four issues and made six recommendations
for change.
Issue 1: Texas has a continuing need for the Texas State Library and
Archives Commission.
Recommendation: 1.1: Continue the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission for 12 years.
Issue 2: The structure for funding regional library systems fails to
provide flexibility to meet changing conditions or encourage innovation.
Recommendations:
2.1 Remove the system funding formula from statute and require the
Commission to adopt a new formula in rule that provides flexibility but
continues to ensure funding for basic system support services.
2.2 Require TSLAC to distribute a portion of system funds in
competitive grants aimed at increasing innovation and targeting state and
federal goals.
2.3 TSLAC should use its Library Systems Act Advisory Board in the
development of a new system formula.
Issue 3: State certification of county librarians is not needed to
ensure public access to quality library services.
Recommendation: 3.1: Eliminate TSLAC's certification of county
librarians.
Issue 4: Lack of statutory direction could threaten the success of
efforts to provide online access to Texas' historic documents.
Recommendation: 4.1: Authorize TSLAC to promote, and provide leadership
to, collaboration between a wide range of Texas institutions to develop an
online tool for searching digitized cultural resources.
The Texas Sunset Commission will hold a public hearing regarding our
agency on Nov. 14-15, in Austin.
If you would like to comment on this report, you may send them to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or via the web
<www.sunset.state.tx.us/question.htm>.
If you have any questions about the Sunset process, you may send them
to [EMAIL PROTECTED].
Deborah Littrell
Director, Library Development division
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
PO Box 12927
Austin, TX 78711-2927
512-463-5456
512-463-8800 fax
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