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In the current pilots, the nomination, appointment and performing duties are becoming more and
more standardized and reasonable for all these kinds of supervisors.
Fourth, clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the Party organization.The Implementation
Plan on Deepening the Reform of the Corporate Governance Structure of Public Cultural
Institutions has clearly put forward that strengthening the Party building, as one of the main
reform contents, requires the superior departments strengthening the leadership of the Party
building by setting up three to seven members of the CPC Leading Group (including one
secretary) during the process of the corporate governance reform. Therefore, establishing and
improving the decision-making mechanism involved in major issues by the Party organization as
leader and participant will ensure the political core, supervision and guarantee roles of the Party
organization. That is to say, the Party organization participates in the discussion of the major
resolutions on important decisions, the important personnel appointment, arrangement of major
projects, the use of huge funds and so on within the regulations and forms. Through setting up “the
integration system of the main members between the board of trustees and the Party organization”,
the principal of the Party organization, as the ex-officio trustees, could promote the development
of integration for the board of trustees and the major members of the Party organization, make
the will of the Party organization fully reflect in every major decision, and the political safeguard
could be able to work better.
2) Making more scientific and professional decisions by establishing professional committees
The innovation of introducing experts’ consultation into the decision-making process is an
effective way to improve the decision-making ability of the board of trustees, which could
perfect the decision-making of corporate governance, ensure professional and scientific decision-
making for public libraries. Shuozhou Library, Futian District Library in Shenzhen City and some
other pilots, as well as the foreign public library board of trustees, have established a series of
professional committees with recruiting experts to widely absorb social wisdom, ensure social
professionals’ active participation, and make much more efficient and grounded decisions.
According to the practices at home and abroad, the board of trustees could establish or repeal
the committees with deliberating and approving, and the trustees with the relevant professional
background could be the conveners of new committees. The new committee should consist of
some trustees and some social professionals, and it is responsible to the board of trustees. The main
responsibility of each professional committee is to do some investigations on professional topics,
submit the investigation report to the board of trustees, and provide reasonable suggestions and
professional argumentation for decisions.
Based on the responsibilities and authorities of the public library board of trustees, the
committees, as the sub-organization of the board of trustees, should include but not be limited to
the following categories.
① Literature Resource Construction Committee. According to the service target, task and
object of libraries, the committee should review the literature resource construction scheme and