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Public Library Board Certification

The Public Library Board Certification program is designed to help:
  • Improve your library
  • Increase board involvement
  • Fulfill library accreditation requirements
  • Organize continuing education activities for board members
Each public library board needs to have a minimum of 20 hours of continuing education (CE) hours in a three-year period to qualify for certification. Individual board members earn continuing education hours that are applied to the whole board's certification requirement. After a library board earns an initial certification, it has three years to accumulate enough continuing education hours to meet the requirement for a renewal of certification. A library board may accumulate any number of CE credits during each three-year certification period as long as it totals at least 20 hours.

Continuing to learn new things should be viewed as a good thing since it will help make the board more effective.

CE hours over the required minimum of 20 hours are not carried over to the next certification time period. Each board starts over. Remember that a board may earn all of its CE hours by viewing video programs. There is no charge for board certification.

If your board is not currently certified or if you need to update your board members, use the Public Library Board Certification Application and Board Member Update form.

If your board is currently certified, you can check your board status and submit CE hours here.

Options for Continuing Education Activities for Board Certification that can be used for CE credit:

For questions concerning certification of library boards, please contact Richard Miller.