HomeMy Public PortalAboutLBT Minutes 2003 12/11McCall Public Library Minutes
Board of Trustees Meeting
Dec. 11, 2003
4.00 p.m.
Public Library Conference Room
I: Call To Order: 16:10
II. Attendance: Christie Gorsline, Gay Foster, Robyn Armstrong. Ed
Hershberger, Anne Kantola, Susie Reddick
III. Minutes: Move to approve October minutes made by Christie and
seconded by Gay. September minutes need to be edited. September minutes
are amended as such: The McCall Public Library has received $5000 in the form
of an advocacy grant; we are asking for a $4000 planning grant and have future
plans for a demonstration project grant.
IV. Staff Report:
a. Photographs / postcards: Pat Eames is a volunteer at the library
and is an ex -archivist for a well known library institution, she
organized the library's old photographs, took them to the historical
society to be scanned and preserved electronically on a CD and
they will be stored in a climate controlled environment there.
Suggested selling historical photographs on postcards at the library
to raise money. Discussed the possibility of making large prints for
sale. A subcommittee of interested board member (Robyn, Susie,
Gay and Christie) will join Pat in this endeavor.
b. Spanish storyhour has been well attended and is being held
tomorrow at 4.
c. Family Reading week went well (7 families in McCall participated).
36 students participated in the poetry contest and the winning poem
should be in the Star News this week.
d. The Children's Librarian, Meg Lojek, successfully completed her
probationary time. A motion was made to promote her to a class 5
librarian to be retroactive to the exact 90 day (in November).
V. Budget and stats: Handouts were distributed
VI. Old Business:
Districting report. UI will donate a feasibility study slated for February 1.
Will be in the newspaper first. Need 300-400 telephone calls. Need to
find contacts for special interest groups to give districting education talk to.
Anne passed out minutes from meeting. Next meeting will be January 13
at 6:30 in the Donnelly Bible Church. Decided to handout info sheet at the
school Christmas show Wednesday the 17.
Policy Manual. Decided to table this project until June. Only about'/4 of
the way through policy. Automating the inventory is library's first priority.
Database. 999 books were entered in one week. 14,585 records are now
in the system with 9,253 records fully cataloged in the Patron Access
Catalog.
Furnace. Sharing oil tank with Public Works, ran out of oil last Monday
and had to shut the library for the day. Tank is filled now. Susie Reddick
offered to donate her spare oil from her home tank if Public Works will
transfer. The new heater is propane and should be online next week.
Fund raising. Address book is making the rounds of board members and
interested parties in another fundraising campaign.
Computers. David Simmonds and the police involved with the schools
cannot yet get the computers mentioned in the October minutes. Will take
time.
VI. New Business:
LiLI Express is a reciprocal borrowing program initiated by the
Idaho State Library for all participating libraries. Anne handed
around the policy and information sheet. Robyn motioned to join
LiLI Express, Susie seconded to join for a 6 month trial to be
revisited as to its success. Discussed a 2 book limit and librarian
has discretion for authority to take books from McCall.
VIII. Adjournment: 17:20
Next Meeting: Jan. 15, 2004.
Susie Reddick, Chairman of the McCall Public Library Board
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