Chapter VI STATE CENTRAL LIBRARY

(1) With effect from such date as the State Government may, by notification appoint (hereinafter referred to in this Chapter as the appointed day), the entire management and control of the Public Library, Bangalore, now vested in the Committee of Management of the Public Library, Bangalore, shall be vested in the State Library Authority. (2) As from the appointed day, the Committee of Management of the Public Library, Bangalore, a society registered under the Mysore Societies Registration Act, 1904, now deemed to be registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960, shall stand dissolved and all property, movable and immovable, and all rights, powers and privileges of the said society which immediately before the appointed day belonged to or vested in the said society shall vest in the State Library Authority and shall be applied for the purposes specified in this Act and such other purposes as may be prescribed. (3) As from the appointed day, all debts and liabilities of the said society shall stand transferred to and vest in the State Library Authority. (4) Every employee of the said society shall, as from the appointed day, become an employee of the State Government and shall hold his office under the State Government as a member of the Karnataka State Library Service on the same tenure, at the same remuneration, and upon the same terms and conditions, and with the same rights and privileges as to provident fund, gratuity and other matters, as he would have held the same, as an employee of the said society, and shall continue to do so unless and until his remuneration, terms and conditions are duly altered by the State Government.

(1) As from the appointed day, the Public Library, Bangalore, shall be the Karnataka State Central Library. (2) (a) The Karnataka State Central Library shall be maintained as a reservoir of books and other materials for the proper functioning of the State Library system. (b) In addition to a general library, the State Central Library shall consist of the following sections namely.- (i) a State Bureau of Copyright Collections; (ii) a State Library for the Blind; (iii) a State Bureau of inter-library loans; (iv) a State Bibliographical Bureau; (v) a State Bureau of Technical Service; (vi) such other sections as may be prescribed.

(1) (a) One copy of each book received under the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 (Central Act 25 of 1867) shall be kept in the State Central Library as a Bureau of Copyright. (b) Copies of books in the Bureau of Copyright shall not be issued by way of loan of any kind but may be made available for reference in the library premises. (2) (a) The production and storage of books, sound records of books and kindred materials for the blind and the issue of such books and materials for the use of the blind shall be dealt with in the section relating to the State Library for the Blind. (b) The State Central Library may collaborate with other Libraries for the Blind in India and undertake such work as may be necessary for purposes of such collaboration. (3) (a) The State Bureau of inter-library loan shall implement such schemes of inter-library loans among the public libraries, academic libraries, State-owned libraries, aided libraries and the outlier libraries in the State as may be prescribed. (b) The State Central Library may with the approval of the State Government, collaborate in any scheme of inter-State library loans. (4) (a) The State Bibliographical Bureau shall undertake such bibliographical work as may be prescribed and may for this purpose collaborate with Departments of Government and educational and other bodies in the State. (b) The State Central Library may, with the approval of the State Government, collaborate with Bibliographical Bureaux or agencies in India and undertake such bibliographical work as may be necessary for purposes of such collaboration. (5) (a) The State Bureau of Technical Service shall be maintained for centralised technical services, such as, acquisition, classification and cataloguing of books for public libraries, academic libraries, State owned libraries, aided libraries and outlier libraries, in accordance with such schemes as may be prescribed. (b) The State Central Library may, with the approval of the State Government, collaborate with other similar Bureaux of Technical Service in India and undertake such technical work as may be necessary for purposes of such collaboration: Provided that no scheme under sub-section (3) or sub-section (5) shall be implemented in respect of any library other than a library owned or controlled by the State, except with the concurrence of the authority which owns or controls such library.