Sec.11-24d-3. Eligibility requirements

Publicly supported libraries submitting applications for library automation funds must meet the following eligibility requirements:

(a) Subscribe to, and demonstrate a commitment to, the sharing of bibliographic records, access to information, and equity of access.

(b) Demonstrate an appropriate commitment of resources and staff to the project for which such grants are requested and/or made available by presenting a written plan which outlines their expectations of any project to be funded under this program and which provides information about the actual and potential sources of financial support.

(c) Demonstrate a conscientious effort to meet existing service and support standards for their library organization. Those who do not already meet existing standards must demonstrate how grant funds will help them to achieve such standards.

(d) Demonstrate, if the project involves the creation and/or use of bibliographic records in machine-readable form, a conscientious effort to create, or upgrade, bibliographic records to national bibliographic standards, or such other bibliographic standards as may be adopted by the State Library Board; those who do not already meet such bibliographic standards must demonstrate how grant funds will help to achieve those standards.

(e) Provide mutually agreeable, reasonable and appropriate access to the bibliographic database in which their records are contained to all other components of the Connecticut library network without any direct charge for that access as such beyond any direct costs that may be incurred on behalf of those components; provide reasonable and appropriate access to the information and materials represented by the bibliographic database in which their records are contained to all other components of the Connecticut library network, and to individual libraries, without any direct charge for that access as such beyond whatever system of reimbursement for services may be provided by the State Library Board, or beyond the actual direct costs for services that may be incurred on behalf of a borrower.

(f) Be requesting, or receiving, such grants for projects which demonstrate a direct relationship to existing automation and network activities in Connecticut, or to future directions in automation and network activities in Connecticut that have been endorsed by the State Library Board.

(Effective March 6, 1987)