Okla. Stat. tit. 65, § 65-1-104: Definitions

When used in this Code unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) The term "library system" shall mean a unified public

library organization under single direction in an area of not less

than one county.

(b) The term "public library" shall mean a library or library

system that is freely open to all persons under identical

conditions, and which is supported in whole or in part by public

funds.

(c) The term "metropolitan library" shall mean a library system

which is the public library for a county in which is located a city

of at least two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) population.

(d) The term "multicounty library" shall mean a library system

which is the public library for a library district composed of two

or more counties.

(e) The term "special library" shall mean any library, whether

open to the general public or not, that is supported in whole or in

part by public funds and which comes within one or more of the

following categories:

(1) All libraries which are operated within or as an integral

part of a publicly supported institution.

(2) All libraries that cater to a special clientele.

(3) All libraries that are concerned primarily with materials

on a special subject.

Provided, however, that this definition shall not be construed

to include libraries operated as a part of any university, college,

school, museum, the Oklahoma Historical Society and county law

libraries.

(f) The word "library" shall mean the contents as well as the

building, equipment and facilities of the institution.

(g) The word "Department" shall mean the Oklahoma Department of

Libraries, which shall be the official library and archival agency

of the state.

(h) The word "Board" shall mean the Oklahoma Department of

Libraries Board.

(i) The word "standards" shall mean the criteria pertaining to

the scope and quality of library facilities, levels of financial

support, adequacy and qualifications of personnel, organization and

resources for service, areas of service and population to be served,

and other factors deemed necessary to insure proper, economical and

effective use of funds and resources in providing library facilities

and services.

(j) The term "accreditation of libraries" shall mean the

evaluation and rating of public libraries and library systems.

(k) The word "Director" shall mean the Director of the

Department who shall be the State Librarian and the State Archivist.

(l) The term "county library" means a public library

established, supported, and maintained by county taxation.

(m) The term "municipal library" means a public library

established, supported, and maintained through taxation by a city or

town whose library board of trustees is appointed pursuant to

municipal authority.

(n) The term "city-county library" means a library system which

consists of a public library for a county in which the population is

at least 100,000.

(o) The term "rural single county library" means a library

system which consists of a public library for a county in which the

population is less than one hundred thousand (100,000) and which is

supported by ad valorem taxation designated for the support of the

county library system.