Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (a) "Book" includes,— (i) every volume, part or division of a voiurne and pamphlet in any language; (ii) manuscript in any form; (iii) every sheet of music, map, graph, chart or plan separately printed or lithographed ; (iv) newspapers, periodicals, paintings, posters, photographs, photographic reproduction, gramophonic records, audio-video tapes, floppy, compact discs, slides, microfilms and film scripts for audio visual information and such other materials; (v) computer output in any form and computer programmes; (b) "Book deposit center" means a center where books are deposited and members of the public cart borrow ; (c) "Book service center" means a center where members of the library can borrow books through a mobile library ; (d) "Council" means the Gujarat State Library Development Council constituted under section 3; (e) "Director" means the Director of Public Libraries ; (f) "District" means a revenue district; (g) " Education Committee " means an Education Committee of a district panchayat constituted under clause (iii) of sub-section (1) of section 145 of the Gujarat Panchayats Act, J993; (h) " Extension service " means and includes the activities pertaining to preservation and promotion of cultural heritage and encouraging the intellectual, literary and scientific character of the community; (i) " Library " means and includes collection of books , book deposit center or book service center providing library service or extension service; (j) "Library service" means and includes providing-reading facilities, lending out Books to the members of the library and assisting the readers to procure book and relevant information ; (k) "Members of the library" means registered members of the library; (l) "Local Authority" means a municipal corporation, a municipality, a panchayat, including notified area and cantonment constituted under the relevant local authority law; (m) "Municipal School Board" means a Municipal School Board as defined in clause (if) of sub-section (ii) of section 2 of the Bombay Primary Education Act, 1947; (n) "Municipality" includes the person or committee appointed under clause (c) of sub-section(7) of section 264B of the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 for any notified area; (o) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules ; (p) "President" means the President of the Council ; (q) "Public library" means ; (i) a library, within the public library system of the State. (ii) a library recognised by the Director under section 20; (iii) any other library which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazelle, declare to be a public library for the purposes of this Act; (r) "Public library system" means a set up of public libraries in the State with the State Central Library at the apex and village libraries at the bottom; (s) "Public library association" means a public library association recognised under section 21 ; (t)"Relevant local Authority law" means, - (i) in relation to a municipal corporation, the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 ; (ii) in relation to a Municipality, the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963: (iii) in relation to a district panchayat, the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993 ; (iv) in relation to a cantonment, the Cantonment Act, 1924. (u) "rules" or "regulations" means the rules or regulations made under this Act; (v) "State" means the State of Gujarat; (w) "taluka" means the revenue taluka ; (x) "year" means the financial year.