Documents and Records
The Pro side of the Library
The reader side of the Library is where you read. This is where you learn how the Library's record-building rules work, what its editorial standards are, what it collects, how the community of contributors is structured, and how to take on a stewardship role. The pages here are written for working contributors, state-agency staff, foundation officers, journalists, and trustees — anyone who needs to understand how this Library actually works.
Governance
A stable pointer to the Library's current institutional records at schooltrusts.org.
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Editorial Standards
What counts as a citable claim. How facts and interpretation are kept apart. How we mark uncertainty. How we correct ourselves.
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Collection Development
What the Library collects, what it doesn't, and how the holdings are organized. The shape of the corpus, state by state.
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Roles
The community of contributors. Reader, Library Card holder, Contributor, Citizen Historian, State Expert, State Co-Librarian, Co-Librarian, Librarian, Board.
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Metadata & Provenance Schema
The Library's working metadata and provenance spec — core record, per-kind extensions, provenance, confidence vocabulary, versioning.
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Bylaws
A stable pointer to the draft bylaws now published on the Library's institutional home.
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Dispute Resolution
The escalation path for editorial disagreements — standard channels, Head Librarian review, review panel, Library Board, external recourse.
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Forthcoming
The Pro side continues to fill out. The pages above are live today; the following are in drafting and will ship next:
- How to Contribute. Consolidated overview of the contribution paths.
Open application paths
Two roles are open for applications today.
- State Co-Librarian — the senior curator for one state's records. Apply →
- Co-Librarian — a national-scope senior curator on a doctrinal or topical specialty. Recruitment is by invitation; an Express Interest path is open. Express interest →
Other roles — Librarian, Citizen Historian, Contributor — have their own paths. See Roles for the full ladder.