The Federation of Libraries of the Bilingual Municipalities of Manitoba

Taken fron the “Articles of Incorporation and General Regulations” (1995)

Objectives

1. Provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and to promote interaction among those bilingual libraries which are members of the AMBM, with the aim of providing their customers with the best service possible.
2. Provide a coordination centre for the purchase of books in order to avoid a duplication of resources.
3. Facilitate the orderly exchange of resources among the libraries of the bilingual municipalities which are members of the AMBM.
4. Provide an information clearing-house for the libraries of those bilingual municipalities which are members of the AMBM, so that they can benefit from the improved purchasing power resulting from province-wide purchases.
5. Make the provincial government aware of the needs and concerns of the libraries of those bilingual municipalities which are members of the AMBM.
6. Adopt those measures which will assure quality bilingual services on the part of the libraries of those bilingual municipalities which are members of the AMBM.

Mandate

1. Ensure that the libraries of the Manitoba bilingual municipalities become intellectual and cultural centers, real hubs of information in their respective communities.
2. Facilitate the promotion books at the level of those libraries of those bilingual municipalities which are members of the AMBM, with the aim of raising the awareness of the cultural heritage and the preservation of that community heritage through reading and the dissemination of information.

Members

1. The members of the Federation are those municipal and regional libraries of those bilingual municipalities which are members of the AMBM, and which have by resolution recommended to their respective municipal councils that they be authorized to reach this agreement by by-law, as it is stipulated in the “Public Libraries Act”, Part IV, 33(1), 33(2), 33(3).