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EULESS LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES
May 1, 1 997
Chairperson Wesley Scott called the Euless Library Board meeting to order, at 7:08 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT STAFF PRESENT VISITORS
Wesley Scott Sheila Williams
Alice Ernest
Betty Fuller
Kerry McGeath
Liz Schoonover
Bernard Snitz (Alternate)
DISPOSITION OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING:
Minutes from the April meeting were received and approved as written.
REPORT OF LIBRARY DIRECTOR
Sheila Williams reported April 1997 circulation information. New registrations:
685; 162 out of the city and 4 out of the county. Active Library Cards: 13,910. Total
Holdings: 63,745. Reference questions answered: 1,401. Videocassettes circulated:
3,261. There were 45 requests for Interlibrary loans; 44 items were received.
Genealogy sign-ins: Total 58 of which 33 were Euless residents. Walk-in traffic was
12,187 and in-house use of materials 4,103. Total Volunteers for April were 21 with total
hours contributed 91.75.
Programs: Storytime Sessions were 23 with 346 children and 88 adults attending.
Special Programs & Tours, Month of April:
Two tours for Bell/Trinity Interns - 22 students. 4 Special Programs -Night of 1,000
Stars with 22 children and 35 adults. Three groups of BelllTrinity Interns with 26
students. We had card registration at South Euless Kindergarten Roundup - 6
registrations during 1 hour period.
Mrs. Yarbrough attended the following meetings in April 1997:
1. TLA Conference,
2. Let's Talk about Books.
3. Friends of the Library with Sheila.
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4. Library Foundation Board of Directors and Gala Planning Committee.
5. Arbor Daze - set up and festival with Sheila Williams.
6. Gave tour for Flower Mound PL Director & Staff(2 days).
7. Night of 1,000 Stars -Meredith McMannis and Tom Cox.
8. Sheila Williams -Automation Conference, System Meeting, Houston - 2 days.
9. Betty Yarbrough& Sheila Williams - Consortiun on Internet, Hurst; /Sheila-
Automation Committee, Watauga.
OTHER REPORTS:
1. Meredith McMannis attended H-E-B- ISD librarian's meeting.
2. Sheila Williams attended TLA Pre-conference on Internet.
3. Trinity High School interns in library - career program.
4. Many staff members attended TLA conference in Fort Worth.
5. Friends of the Library semi-annual meeting.
6. Sherry Moeller attended grant writing workshop.
7. Jan McCormick and Paula Myers did South Euless Elementary Kindergarten
Roundup.
8. Sheila- attended Employee of the Month meeting.
9. School visits have begun to promote Summer Reading Program.
10. Meredith -Arbor Daze Community Stage.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
The students of Trinity High School sent a thank you card and a letter expressing their
appreciation for the library tour. "It helped us understand what a career in Library
Science involves. There's a lot more than meets the eye." They thanked Meredith
McMannis for speaking to them.
On April 28, Wesley Scott met with the Chairpersons of all the boards and committees
in Euless with the City Council and City Manager for their semi-annual meeting. They
were given an update of all that is being accomplished in our city.
Tom Hart invited our Library Board to tour the new golf course on the 8th or 15th of May
at 6:15 p.m. The Texas Star Golf course opens to the public May 22.
Three staff members from the North Richland Hills Library came for two days and
examined our new facility. They were impressed and looked for ideas to implement in
their library.
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Arbor Daze: There is an "Arbor Daze Evaluation Meeting" scheduled for May 8. Sheila
recorded all of our suggestions that we passed on to her from citizens and booth
people. These will be presented in the meeting.
NEW AND MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS:
Jeanne Green is a new Staff member working in Youth Services. We are delighted to
have Jeanne.
The library staff wants to do an in-library survey to determine what our users want and
need. It would assist in collection development for new materials. Elizabeth Draper
made the initial survey sheet. We discussed this to great length and added some of
our ideas, including several facets of what we offer to the public. This survey sheet is
not finalized yet, or how we will implement it in the library. We will need volunteers
to do the survey.
Betty Fuller suggested we look for a change machine for our copier. In the future, if we
acquire a second copier, it would alleviate staff having to give this service to the public.
The local school libraries will be working with us through the summer to provide people
for our Storytelling Hour. This will be a great help for our staff and volunteers.
We discussed the leaks in the library roof. Two of them have been fixed, and the
contractors are coming back when we have the next heavy rain to inspect the roof and
the interior where we have had problems. We are still under warranty. This month
(May) a "walk through" is scheduled to look for needed repairs. The board is very
concerned about this issue. We are passing this information on to Tom Cox.
CITIZEN INPUT:
There was no citizen input this month.
There being no further business, Chairperson Wesley Scott adjourned the meeting
at 8:45 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
,‘/e- A. Schoonover
Euless Library Board Secretary