As the governing body the Board of Trustees:
- Advocates for the library within the community
- By ensuring adequate funding
- By establishing and supporting planned programs of public relations
- By meeting with local officials to communicate library issues
- By representing library patrons’ concerns and their perspectives
- Develops a strategic plan
- That guides and articulates the goals and objective to be achieved
- That determines sound decision making and priorities
- That measures the quality and effectiveness of services and programs
- That reflects contemporary library practices and future trends
- Nurtures fiscal responsibility
- Through the preparation of a budget
- Through scheduled monitoring of that budget and financial progress reports
- Through pursued opportunities as in grants, campaign development, other funds
- Through communication of fiscal needs with supporting agencies
- Through careful investments
- Crafts policies that comply with all laws and form a framework of acceptable expected practices, behaviors, and procedures
- That support the mission, goals, and objectives of the library
- That outline personnel issues
- That describe courses of action when there is conflict
- That describe facilities use and access
- That is adopted enforced and updated
- Ensures qualified leadership by
- Hiring a library director who manages the day-to-day operations
- Evaluating the director annually