This section is for information regarding your library trustees, including who they are, how to contact them, their terms of office, what committees they serve on, and what information they expect to receive before each board meeting.
- A list of your library’s board members including contact information and the expiration date of each trustee’s term7
- When there are changes on your board, please let the ICfL know, so that the Library Directory can be updated accordingly. What to report:
- The new trustee’s name
- Name of the trustee who has been replaced
- The expiration year of the new trustee’s term
- The new trustee’s mailing address
- Please report these changes to ICfL Administrative Assistant Tina Schilling and cc Public Library Consultant Clay Ritter
- The Idaho Commission for Libraries does not collect any other information about trustees. Only ICfL staff can view trustee information in the Library Directory. This information is not visible to the public. The ICfL does not share trustee information with anyone outside the agency.
- A list of your library board’s officers and their committee assignments
- A list of the library board’s committees and the purpose of each committee
- If your board’s treasurer is bonded, where to find the paperwork [see Idaho Code § 33-2722]
- A copy of the Trustee Roles and Responsibilities document
- Your board’s annual meeting schedule
- Your board’s meeting minutes for the past year and where to find meeting minutes from previous years
- An explanation of how citizens become trustees and where to find the corresponding legal citations:
- For city libraries:
- For district libraries:
- Where to find the oath of office for new trustees [see Idaho Code chapter 4, title 59]
- Positive tips about working with your library board that you would like to pass on to your successor
- When the library director is evaluated and what criteria the board uses.
- A list of the documents that should be included in your pre-meeting board packets (fiscal report, statistical report, program report, etc.) and how to distribute the packets to the board and, if yours is a city library, to the council liaison (mail, email, other).
7 For city libraries, appointments to complete an unexpired term shall be for the remainder of the term only [Idaho Code section 33-2605]. For district libraries, any person appointed to fill a vacancy on the library board shall serve until the next election of public library district trustees following the appointment [I.C. § 33-2716].