Decision of the Governing Council on the Delivery of Publications to the Cantonal Library

1. This directive aims to ensure that publications either issued by the Canton itself or funded (wholly or partly) by it are made available to the Canton Library in a reasonable number of copies.

1. For every publication from the canton as referred to in paragraph 1, a collection of 20 copies must be delivered to the cantonal library at the expense of the publisher.

1. Responsible for the enforcement of the above provisions are

a) cantonal authorities or offices that themselves publish materials (such as the cantonal educational materials administration, the Innerrhoden Publications Commission); these are directly responsible for ensuring that the Cantonal Library is supplied with the copies mentioned in section 2,

b) * cantonal authorities or offices that (co-)finance publications by third parties (Pro Innerrhoden Foundation, departments); these authorities attach the condition to their funding promise that the publishers supply the Cantonal Library with the copies mentioned in section 2.

1. The Cantonal Library makes an appropriate number of these copies available to the public in its own catalog (2-3) as well as in the catalogs of the Appenzell Public Library (1-2), the Oberegg Village Library (1-2), and the Appenzell Gymnasium Library (1).

2. The Cantonal Library provides an additional copy to the Swiss National Library.

3. At least three copies remain as a non-circulating collection in the Cantonal Library's repository.

1. The Appenzell Public Library, the Oberegg Village Library, and the Appenzell Gymnasium Library receive publications of the canton for their catalogs as a gratuitous loan from the Cantonal Library; the publications are transferred to the ownership of the Swiss National Library.

1. This directive shall come into force on September 1, 1996.