(a) To operate and maintain a county library system and to promulgate such rules for the operation and maintenance thereof as may be deemed necessary or expedient;

(b) To employ a director who shall have the authority to employ necessary staff and to terminate the employment of such staff upon approval of the board;

(c) To purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire land or buildings or portions of buildings for library purposes;

(d) To erect, maintain, and operate public library buildings at one or more places in the county;

(e) To accept transfer of any existing public library or libraries by lease or other conveyance;

(f) To acquire, by purchase or otherwise, books and other personal property customarily used in the operation of public libraries including necessary motor vehicles;

(g) To sell and dispose of personal property acquired by purchase or other means when by proper resolution the county public library board finds that said property is not needed for library purposes;

(h) To accept, hold, and convey legal title to interests in real property in the name “County Public Library Board of ________ County” which shall be its official name. Deeds or other conveyances of said interests in real property shall be executed for and on behalf of the board by the chairperson and shall be attested by the secretary;

(i) To accept or in its discretion to decline donations tendered to the county library system;

(j) To apply for funds from the Oklahoma Local Library Support Revolving Fund and provide any information requested by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries in order to qualify and receive such funds;

(k) To administer the expenditure of any funds which become available for library purposes from the Oklahoma Local Library Support Revolving Fund and any other funds granted or donated to the county public library;

(l) To borrow on the credit of the county public library board for a period of time not to exceed one year; and

(m) To do all other things necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes and provisions of this act.¹