THE PLAN

Fraser Valley Regional Library: A Programme for Development

1. ‘Policy:

The Board of Management will present to each member
municipality, school district and regional district its
Plan of Service predicated on the receipt of provincial
aid as outlined in the LDC's Programme for Library Devel-
Opment. On ratification by a majority of members, the
Board will present the Plan to the Library Development
Commission for approval and funding as a system.

Governnent and Size:

(a) The FVRL system will be governed by a Board of
Management comprised of representatives from each
municipality as prescribed in Section 47 of the
Public Libraries Act and one representative from
each of three regional districts.

The present boundaries will be expanded to include
Electoral Areas A, 5, C, D and E of Dewdney-Alouette
Regional District, Electoral Area A of Central Fraser
Valley Regional District and Electoral Areas A, B,

Cc, D, E and F of the Fraser-Cheam Regional District.

The electoral areas of the three regional districts
will replace the rural areas of School Districts
33, 34, 36, 75 and 75 as members of the library
system.

The electoral areas will be represented on the Board
of Management by one electoral area appointee from —
each regional district board.

Composition of the Board of Management will be changed
from representatives of 17 municipalities and five
school districts to representatives of 17 municipal-
ities and thcee regional districts.

Finances:

The new FVRL system will receive sufficient funds to |
Support its service program in an endeavour to reach at least
the minimum level required by LDC Standards for Integrated

Library Systems.

> by local taxation
and provincial aid: -

{a) Local taxation - = Taxation from municipalities and
Yegional districts in ratio of their respective
assessments. This shali be at such uniform mill

rate over the entire area as will satisfy the demands
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{b) Provincial aid - As outlined in the LDC's Programme
for Library Development there will be establishment
grants, operating grants and special grants available
to integrated library systems. These are listed briefly:

1. Establish t Grants

{a) Resource Centre grant of $1.00 per capita

(b) Headquarters grant of $2.00 per capita

(c) Building grant of $150,000

(da) Expansion grant of $2.00 per capita for
populaticn of new areas joining an existing
system,

Operating Grants

(a) Basic grant of $10,000

(b) General operating grant based on LDC formula

(c) Area grant of 50¢ per square mile up to
50,060 square miles,

Special Grants
(a) To support approved projects

Structure and Service

(a) Headquarters - This centre for administration, processing
and distribution will be in a geographically central
location in the Fraser Valley. Its role will be to
serve branches in a wholesale-retail relationship, to
maintain mobile library services and to provide a mail
service to people in remote areas or to people who are
unable to use library outlets because of infirmity.

Resource Centre - This centre, a departure from FVRL
practice, will be a large branch in Surrey with the
purpose of housing the system's main reference collection,
the system's main audio-visual collection and a large
collection of books.

- The reference collection of some 5,000 titles and the

film collection of about 1,200 prints will be moved,

along with staff, from Headquarters to the Resource

Centré to make these system resources available to

more peopie. In addition to serving the needs of

its own community, however, the Resource Centre will

be open and available to every resident of the system area.

In accordance with LDC Standards, the Resource Centre
will be the largest library in the system. Standards
require it to house a comprehensive collection of at
least 50,000 volumes of currently useful adult ron-
fiction, at least 206 periodical titles, 3,000 discs,
tapes and cassettes, and 500 films.