N.Y. Senate Rules Rule 3, § 4: No title

§ 4. He or she shall appoint, in conjunction with the Speaker of the

Assembly and the Legislative Librarian, an Assistant Legislative

Librarian, to have charge and custody of all legislative documents, as

defined in this section, who shall be responsible for collecting,

numbering, indexing and retaining the same in the Legislative Library in

an area designated for such use by the Legislative Librarian. At least

two copies of all such documents shall be kept in such library at all

times and made available to Members of the Legislature and legislative

employees for public inspection and duplication during library hours.

The function of the Legislative Library is to serve the information

and research needs of Members of the Legislature and legislative staff

as defined by the Legislative Law. The services provided shall include

professional reference, access to standard commercial online databases

and the availability of records of the Library's holding on the

Legislative Retrieval System (LRS). The Library is charged with the

collection and custody of all Legislative and State documents as defined

by this section. Access to the collection shall be provided by the

Legislative Library State Documents (LLSD) database on LRS. Documents

may be retained in paper, microform, laser disk or any other medium

approved for archiving documents.

To effectuate the purposes of this section, the Assistant Legislative

Librarian in charge of legislative documents may request from any

committee, commission, task force or office of the Legislature, and the

same are authorized to provide, such assistance, services and data as

will enable such librarian to carry out his or her duties as prescribed

in this section.

For purposes of this section, the term legislative document shall mean

and include the Rules of the Senate, the Rules of the Assembly, reports

of the Legislature and reports of every legislative committee,

subcommittee, task force or other adjunct of the Legislature and all

reports and documents required by law or regulation to be submitted to

the Legislature by any department, board, bureau, commission or other

agency of the State.

The provisions of this section and paragraph ten of subdivision c of

section one of Rule I of the Assembly are intended to result in the

appointment of a single Assistant Legislative Librarian to serve both

Houses of the Legislature.