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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Libraries and Education Technology
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the award of grants to
   support preservation and/or conservation of library research materials
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs a and c of subdivision 6 of section 273 of the
 education law, as amended by chapter  563  of  the  laws  of  2021,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   a.  The  commissioner shall award in any [state fiscal] ACADEMIC year,
 an annual formula grant of one hundred fifty-eight thousand dollars  for
 a  program of conservation and/or preservation of library research mate-
 rials to each of the following comprehensive research libraries:  Colum-
 bia  university  libraries, Cornell university libraries, New York state
 library,  New  York  university  libraries,  university   of   Rochester
 libraries,  Syracuse university libraries, the research libraries of the
 New York public library, state university of New York at Albany library,
 state university of New York at Binghamton library, state university  of
 New  York  at Buffalo library, and state university of New York at Stony
 Brook library.
   c. Other agencies and libraries, as defined in regulations promulgated
 by the commissioner, which are not eligible for funding under  paragraph
 a  of  this  subdivision,  may  receive separate grants the sum of which
 shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars  in  any  [state  fiscal]
 ACADEMIC  year to support the preservation and/or conservation of unique
 library research materials. Such agencies  and  libraries  shall  submit
 project proposals. Approval of such project proposals, and determination
 of  funding level, shall be based upon, but not limited to, factors such
 as:  the research value of materials to be preserved  and/or  conserved;
 appropriateness  of  conservation and preservation techniques in accord-
 ance with  statewide  planning  and  national  standards;  institutional
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 capacity for successful completion of the project, including facilities,
 experience,  and  technical expertise; availability of staff with appro-
 priate training and expertise; contribution of the  institution  to  the
 project  in matching funds and staff resources; and the volume of inter-
 library lending and access to holdings by the public. Ninety percent  of
 each such grant shall be payable upon approval by the department and the
 remaining ten percent shall be payable upon project completion.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.