(1) “Academic library” means any library which serves primarily the faculty, staff and student body of a degree-granting college or university, which is approved as an institution of higher learning by a nationally recognized accrediting organization.
(2) “Agency” means any agency, department, bureau, board, commission, institution, instrumentality or other organization in the executive branch of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands.
(3) “Archives Council” means the United States Virgin Islands Archives Council as established by section 28h of this chapter.
(4) “Archives of the Virgin Islands” means those official records or other items that have been determined in accordance with the provisions of sections 28f through 28h of this chapter to have sufficient historical or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, and have been deposited with the Archivist.
(5) “Archivist” means the Archivist of the Virgin Islands.
(6) “Depository libraries” means those libraries where public documents and indexes are deposited, retained and reproduced upon demand, or made available to the general public and governmental agencies.
(7) “Library network” means a group of libraries of more than one type (e.g. public, school, academic, institutional, or special) engaged in a common pattern of information exchange, through communications, for some functional purpose.
(8) “Library services” means the performance of all activities of a library or library agency.
(9) “Office” means the Office of Libraries and Archives within the Department of Planning and Natural Resources.
(10) “Public library” means a library that is intended to serve all the residents of a community, district or the Territory, including institutionalized persons and blind and physically handicapped persons, provides its services free of charge, and receives its financial support primarily from public funds.
(11) “Records” means all books, papers, maps, photographs, audio or video tapes or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by any governmental agency pursuant to law or in connection with the transaction of public business.
(12) “School library” means a library media center where a full range of printed and audiovisual materials, associated equipment and services are available to students and school personnel in public and non-public elementary and secondary schools.
(13) “Special library” means any library which services primarily the employees or members of a business or industrial firm, a government agency or professional association. The term includes “institutional libraries” which means a library within a physically or privately supported institution carrying out a health, welfare or correctional program.
(14) “Territorial Librarian” means the Director of the Office of Libraries and Archives.
(15) “Territorial library agency” means the official agency of a territory charged by the law of that territory with the extension and development of public library services throughout the Territory.
(16) “User” means any individual or group with a desire to use libraries and information facilities.