GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1216

Short Title:  N.C. Foreign Language Center.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Hurley; Beard, Jeralds, McAllister, and Warner.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 10, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE NORTH CAROLINA FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Chapter 125 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Article to read:
"ARTICLE 4.
"North Carolina Foreign Language Center.
"§ 125-20.  North Carolina Foreign Language Center – establishment; location; administration.
There is established a North Carolina Foreign Language Center within the Department of Cultural Resources, the Division of State Library.  The North Carolina Foreign Language Center shall be located in the Headquarters Library of the Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center in Fayetteville.  The management and operation of the North Carolina Foreign Language Center shall be the responsibility of the Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center under the supervision of the Division of State Library.
"§ 125-21.  North Carolina Foreign Language Center – purpose and duties.
(a)	The purpose of the North Carolina Foreign Language Center shall be to:
(1)	Acquire and provide informational and recreational library materials for the residents of the State who desire materials in foreign languages.
(2)	Acquire and provide materials for learning English as a second language.
(3)	Provide language learning materials for State residents who desire to gain foreign language skills.
(b)	To carry out its purposes, the North Carolina Foreign Language Center shall have the following duties:
(1)	Provide materials in a variety of formats including:  fiction, nonfiction, comics, children's materials, language learning kits, music and prose sound recordings, sound filmstrips, video cassettes, teaching aids, study prints, phrase books, dictionaries, grammars, current periodicals, pamphlets, compact disks, and other appropriate materials.
(2)	Loan materials free of charge to any person in the State through normal interlibrary loan procedures with local public, college, university, school, and special libraries throughout the State.
(3)	Establish deposit collections of materials as part of the interlibrary loan service at public, college, university, school, and special libraries within the State.
(4)	Maintain a catalog of available materials through the bibliographic utility, the Online Computer Library Catalog (OCLC).
(5)	Promote statewide awareness of the resources at the North Carolina Foreign Language Center, the availability of those resources, and the procedure for obtaining use of those resources."
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources for the 1991-92 fiscal year the sum of $100,000 to implement the provisions of this act.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.