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Home My WebLink About2006-05-04 EULESS LIBRARY BOARD MINUTES • May 4, 2006 Chairman Mike McGehee called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. MEMBERS PRESENT STAFF PRESENT OTHERS Mike McGehee Kate Lyon Denise Feely-Visitor Barney Snitz Karan Jasper Kola Latu Betty Fuller LuAnn Portugal-excused Chris McAllister-excused Marcia Brown Adriane Weinstein Kathy Grove-absent DISPOSITION OF THE MINUTES: The Chairman asked for a motion to be made to accept the April minutes with a correction in the spelling of Denise Feelys' name. Barney Snitz made the motion to accept the minutes with corrections,and Adriane Weinstein second the motion. INTRODUCTION OF VISITOR Mike McGehee introduced our visitor, Kola Latu and welcomed Denise Feely back for a second visit. REPORT FROM THE LIBRARY ADMINISTRATOR: Kate Lyon reports that Colleyville Library is now offering downloading of books to MP3 players. Arlington,Fort Worth,and Garland are also offering this service. Due to a bandwidth we can only download e-books,but we hope the bandwidth problem can be corrected with a request in the 2008 budget. Additionally, Kate commented that the downloadable books are not compatible with I-pods,which are the most popular type of MP3 players. At the March Euless Library Foundation meeting we asked and received $1600.00 from the Friends Book Sale. We will purchase a new Hippo book bin for the children's department for$1100 and the$500.00 will be used for additional costs for the Summer Reading Program. 2007 Library Budget has been submitted to Joe Hennig. We have asked for the following items: 1. Security/locking cases for DVD's 2. DiscChek Eco-Smart(for inspecting and cleaning DVD and CD's) 3. Three additional Study Rooms 4. Two additional offices in the Reference Area 5. Additional license for Polaris 6. Furniture cleaning and re-upholster money 7. New account for ordering promotional items for the Library 8. Portable stage for the Meeting Room Starting May 4th the Youth Department and Reference Department schedules will be adjusted. Each department will be responsible for seeing they have desk coverage by the department staff. This will enable us to keep the Youth Desk open regular hours each day. We are lifting the restrictions on number of renewals on an item. We will begin allowing an item to be renewed multiple times provided it has not been put on hold by another patron. The staff is working on the 10th birthday celebration. The theme is"Your Library...a perfect 10"will have 10 days of activities and the final day we will have a reception in the Meeting Room. Dates and activities are still being worked on,and we will give you a schedule at the June meeting. We purchased a new"Read"ALA poster CD and the Trinity Photojournalism group at Trinity High School will do the photo shoot. We will use this to make a custom poster of Coach Lineweaver and star running back Dimitri Nance. Summer Reading Club starts June 1,2006 with the theme"Reading: The Sport of Champions." May 2006 Library Board Minutes Page 2 DISCUSSIONS: 1. Betty Fuller reports while she was volunteering at South Euless Elementary School she asked the children how many had Library cards. She was concerned at how few actually had Library cards. 2. Mike McGehee reported that Kathy Grove informed him that she would be resigning from the Library Board immediately. 3. Kate Lyon reported that Susan Crim shared with her that the Library Board is the only board that has a recording secretary in an elected position. Karan Jasper has been recording and transcribing the minutes for over two years and she has agreed to continue to do this for the Board. The Secretary position for the Library Board will send letters and other correspondence as needed. Adriane Weinstein volunteered to take this position. Betty Fuller made the motion to accept the changes and Barney Snitz second the motion. 4. Marcia Brown attended TLA in Houston and reported on the events. Marlee Matlin and Julie Andrews were the featured speakers this year. 5. Mike McGehee reports that the Euless Library Foundation is meeting with various artists from UTA. The next meeting is May 12 in the Library Board Room. 6. Barney Snitz reports that he attended the Masterworks Program in the Library on May 8. The jazz group,Fingerprints, was wonderful but he was concerned at the low number of people who attended the program. 7. A discussion of whether or not to have the July meeting was introduced. It was decided to table this discussion until the June 1,2006 scheduled meeting. CITIZEN INPUT: ADJOURNMENT: The Chairman asked for a motion to adjourn. The motion was made by Barney Snitz and seconded by Adriane Weinstein. The meeting was adjourned at 7:25 p.m. Respectfully Submitted CLA CtSlY(-X-4 K an Jasper Recording Secretary Euless Library Board