Trustee Resources

Trustee Training and Orientation:  NCLS Consultants are trained to assist with all aspects of trustee responsibilities including funding, marketing and public relations, policies, employer/employee relations, Education Law, and much more.  We encourage all library boards to invite their Consultant to attend a board meeting at least once a year. We especially encourage you to invite your Consultant to a board meeting whenever a new trustee joins the board so that we may help orient them to being a public library trustee . 

Please visit the Consulting page for more information.

The role of the trustee

Read or print out a copy of the:

• 2005 Edition of the Handbook for Library Trustees
• NYS Minimum Public Library Standards (PDF)
• Open Meetings Law (PDF)
• Ethics Statement (PDF)
• Types of Libraries- A Comparison
• Public Library Law
• Relationship Between Library Boards and Municipal Boards

Sample Library Policies

Advocacy

Local:

Write, call, or e-mail County Government Officials:

• Jefferson County
• Lewis County
• Oswego County
• St. Lawrence County

State:

• State Funding for Libraries(2008)
• NCLS Library Annual Statistics
• Legislators: NY State and Federal
• Contact the Governor (please!)
• Current information and news from the New York Library Association Advocacy Page.
• Become a member of the the New York State Association of Library Boards (NYSALB)! Newsletters, e-mail discussion list, and a lot of great information for trustees can be found on the NYSALB web site.

National:

• Current information and news from the American Library Association Advocacy Page.

• Nomination Letter for NCLS Board of Trustees

• Nomination Petition for NCLS Board of Trustees