Rhode Island General Laws Title 29. Libraries § 29-3.1-7. Duties of chief of library services

(i) To distribute state funds for public library development and interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing in accordance with law and regulations of the library board;

(ii) To develop standards and regulations for public library development and interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing;

(iii) To certify that public library standards and services are in accordance with law and regulations of the library board;

(iv) To require the observance of all laws relating to public library services and interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing;

(v) To interpret library law;

(vi) To give assistance, advice, and counsel to public libraries and to participants in interlibrary cooperation and resource-sharing activities;

(vii) To require that information and statistics necessary to do the work of the office of library and information services be collected, to publish findings and reports thereon;

(viii) To provide eligible persons who are impaired, blind, reading impaired and/or physically impaired with library services through the Talking Books Plus, in cooperation with the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped;

(ix) To cooperate with the commissioner of elementary and secondary education in supporting and encouraging effective school library media services and their integration into statewide library networking activities;

(x) To cooperate with the state librarian and the state law librarian in strengthening services to library users;

(xi) To cooperate with the commissioner of higher education in supporting and encouraging effective library services through the state system of higher education; and

(xii) To coordinate with all other state departments and agencies in the provision of library services to state government and to the public.