Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) Eligibility. A public or non-profit
independent college or university located in New York State shall be eligible
for aid pursuant to Education Law, section 273(5), provided that:
(1) the college or university:
(i) is a unit of the State University of New
York or of the City University of New York, a community college established
under article 126 of the Education Law, a nonprofit college or university
incorporated by the Regents or by the Legislature, or a school of medicine,
dentistry or osteopathy authorized by the Regents to confer the degree of
doctor of medicine, doctor of medical science, doctor of dental surgery or
doctor of osteopathy;
(ii)
maintains one or more registered curricula leading to an earned degree;
and
(iii) is eligible for State aid
under the provisions of the Constitutions of the United States and the State of
New York; and
(2) the
library of the college or university at the time of application:
(i) is a member of a reference and research
library resources system;
(ii)
agrees to lend to other members of the reference and research library resources
system any library materials which it ordinarily lends to its own faculty and
students; and
(iii) agrees to
collect and report interlibrary loan statistics annually in a form prescribed
by the department.
(b) In conjunction with a committee
representative of the libraries of institutions of higher education in the
system's area of service, each reference and research library resources system
shall formulate a regional coordinated collection development plan. There shall
be provision in the plan for periodic review and revision.
(1) The method proposed for developing the
plan and a report on the degree of progress toward completing the plan shall be
submitted to the department with the applications for aid payable in the State
fiscal year beginning April 1, 1981.
(2) A report on the degree progress toward
completing the plan shall be submitted to the department with the applications
for aid payable in the State fiscal year beginning April 1, 1982.
(3) The completed plan, with evidence of
approval by a majority of the eligible applicants within the reference and
research library resources system, shall be submitted with the applications for
aid payable in the State fiscal year beginning April 1, 1983.
(c) Application.
(1) Application shall be made each year in a
form and by a date prescribed by the department.
(2) One application may be submitted by each
college or university meeting the requirements of subdivision (a) of this
section, and one grant may be made to each such college or university except
that in the case of public or independent multi-institution systems, one
application may be submitted by each principal center, as defined in
subdivision (q) of section
50.1 of this Chapter.
(3) Each reference and research library
resources system shall distribute application forms to the eligible applicants
in its approved area of service, receive and review the applications, and
transmit the applications meeting the eligibility standards of subdivision (a)
of this section to the department with a recommendation for action.
(4) After April 1, 1982, the annual
application shall include a statement of how grant funds will be used to
implement the regional coordinated collection development plan.
(5) After April 1, 1982, the annual
application shall include a certification by the college or university that the
aid for coordinated collection development received in the preceding year was
expended for library materials in accordance with that year's
application.
(d) Grant
funds shall be expended for library materials only.
(e) Maintenance of effort. Each applicant
shall provide evidence in its annual application that in the academic year
completed prior to the beginning of the State fiscal year expenditures for
library materials were not less than 95 per centum of either the average annual
aggregate amount of the average annual per full-time equivalent student amount
expended for library materials in the two preceding academic years. The number
of full-time equivalent students shall be calculated according to the formula
set forth in Education Law, section 273(5) (b)(2). The commissioner, at his
discretion, may waive this requirement.
(f) The final fall enrollment figures for the
academic year completed prior to the beginning of the State fiscal year will be
used to compute the per student aid. For purposes of this computation, first
professional students shall be considered graduate students.
