§ 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.