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Regular Meeting;
October 14 , 1076
C1T1 TO 01?Iv r?
The meeting wns called to order at 7: 32 p.m. by Chairman
Dottie Ragley. Members ntterdinc :
Rev Blood
hill McCray
Inez Morrison
pis ierkins
Dottie Parley
Parhara Zieschang
Also present : Mrs . Geneva Armstrong, Librarian.
AH ROV-1T. OF MiNUTE - September 2, 1976
With one correction - On page 1 under LIBRARIAN'S RE}ORT
the last sentence should have added to it . . . .There were over
100 Readinr Certificates given out ,also a free cone from Dai.rz
queen . The minutes were approved as corrected .
LIPR,ARI rT ' r PF! ORT
Cur Fiscal Year total includes : Fines that amount to
2, r, ; books paid for 1350.00 and the use of the Copy machine
was ' x,1472.
'T'here were 13 Tours with the total of 495 people taking
the tours . Had 50 Story Hours with 984 people attended . There
. were 1 , 170 overdue Notices mailed during the year.
The total of Incoming phone calls were 3,641 ; Misc .phone
calls were 3,051 ; and reference calls were 590. The Outgroing
total was 3,840; Reserves came to a total of 1 ,152 ; Interlibrary
loan was 477 ; and misc . was 709.
he hooks that were cataloged during the year was 3,/i 56, and
the Fon-hook material was 509, which makes a total of 4,428.
There wore 682 reserved books out , and 397 Interlibrary Loan
rrq;ests . Interlibrary loan requests fillyd with 428, which
incli.ded items , books and non-hook material. Cards typed during
the year cnme to a total of 19,647.
ooti ngs for the month of September 1976 w re : System
T,ibrarian ' s , which was held on the 14th September at the Fort
'Forth l'ublic Library: The Tarrant Regional Library Association
was held at the Bedford Public Library on the . 17th of September.
Parhara Thoarson representing the Library attended the Friends
merti rr or the 1st of Oct . The Crafts Workshop of the Library
` yster. Service was held at the Haltom Public Lihr ry on October
5th.
There was a burglary on September 22nd. All items were
recovered except 3 sets of earphones .
� s . Armstrong explained the following things that we
have to offer to the public : Adult Basic Education , Pusiness
`'ervic*-s(r'eedy' r , Prentice-Hall , Thomas Register) ; Cassette
Tine i i is, ors , Cassette Tapes , Childrens ' s Game:; _Children ' s
Toys , Copy Machine , Display Case , Film and Film Strips,
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Ent I;t1n. 11 PRPPY '1'PTIflTI - net . 141�'j Pare
Fuller Meeting (doom , Mini -Mnstern-Reproductions of Famous
Art , Picture File , Renordings(Entertninment , Lnn/ruage) ,SStory
Hour, 'Telephone 1)1rectnries(out or town and out of state) , ,
Vertical File and Gollere Catalogues .
(.('11N( 1 T, pop SOCIAL COTT(;l.,RNS -Rarhnrn ', eschang
The Collection and Distribution Project of the Council
has selected a Hoard of Directors for this activity which
met on '"ednesray, Oct . 13, 1976 at the First National Rank
in Kuless . The Hoard elemoted orficern , approved their
constitution , and made appl i cnti on for a tax-exempt status
number wi th 1PS. Free storar*e space has been made available
by AAA Persorihl Warehouses of Hurst . As soon as the area has
been thoroughly sprayed ror insects and a lock has been
installed , the boxed clothing currently he ; nrr stored in the
City owned building at T16 Sheppard will he moved ? and the
Center for Collection and Distribution will officially open.
The collection of clothing has already been dr. awn on by the
Council for Social Concerns to help clothe selected children
for the beginning of school. Eleven churches have agreed to
help stock and staff this Center. "Pound Sundays" asking for
specific items will he utilized . Other agencies participating
will he Family Service , HER Hospital Social Service , HEBISD
Counselors and school nurses , etc . The Collection and Dis-
tihuti on Center will gather clothing for children from
infancy through high school, basic canned foods and cleaning
supplies , and emergency equipment for short term loan to
qualified persons .
FORT ','ORTH MAJOR RESOURCE SYSTEM - Barbara Zieschang
The City of Fort Worth is considering raising the
administrative charges to all grants received by the
departmentsof the City. This would involve an increase of
from 2.9` to 15.7% of the total grant in the case of the
FW'RS, an unreasonable and unjustified move . A letter was
written by the Advisory Council to the Fort Worth City Council,
the City Manager protesting the increase and making specific
objections to the new Allocation Plan. Copies of this letter
were sent to a].] 38 members of the System, their City
governments , Texas State Library Director Dorman Winfrey,
Assistant State Librarian Bill Gooch , Chairman of the Texas
Library and Historical Commission Bob Davis , Library System
fervice Coordinator Bill Duncan,and Center Library Director
Mabel Fischer.
?DTTC ATTON P.ND FREVET TTON PROGRAM - Barbara Zieschang
Viewing of possible VD films for Junior High , PTA and
church groups . Series will he offered to HERISD by a speakers
bureau sponsored by JC8s . VD is the first of a list of
subjects of which information and speakers-instructors will
he located for various groups in the Community.
G;;T'm LOGY ROOM I ROJECT - Bill McCray
McCray stated that he has four men working on
r-et:ting the heating equipment out . It is taking a little
time , since they can only do this on their off time . The
! ihrnry Hoard went hack to see how much has been done , and
it is really coming along fine.
E11111 1 1 P!?A1 Y I'O4 Il ( I" PinrnTEI;,; — Oct . 14, 1976 i'ap;e 3
ioi,i F'NP OF 'P11i; I TTThAIlY — Dottie Parley
Ponrd mooti nr wnn held on the 1st October 1976. Our
fall moots nr* will be October 26,1976 in the Fuller Room at
10:00 n .m . Mrs . McFnrinnd will he our guest speaker and
will talk on GenenloFy.
Thorp will he a Book `;ale the first week in April.
APJOii!?iTFhiNT
There being; no further discussion, the Chairman
adjourned the meeting at 8: 30 PM.
Sis Perkins , Secretary Dottie Ragley, Chairman