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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Packet - LB - 2005.07.19 IURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY '.[ BURLINGAME 1 Board of Trustees Agenda _ July 19, 2005- 5.30pm °e P 480 Primrose Road-Library Conference Room SUGGESTED ACTION I. CALL TO ORDER II. ROLL CALL f III. *ARRANTS & SPECIAL FUND Approval IV. ,MINUTES Approval V. CORRESPONDENCE AND INFORMATION Information A. Letter: Ann Siberell B. Highlights of ALA Conference C. News from the Capitol July 11, 2005 D. Ralph M. Brown Act VI. FROM THE FLOOR (Public Comments) -1. REPORTS �— A. City Librarian's Report—Escoffier B. Foundation Report- Escoffier C. City Centennial Committee VIII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS IX. NEW BUSINESS �J A. Council Liaisons 3o Information/Decision B. Board Meeting Times 491 Information/Decision C. Employee Recognition Fund ($500) Discussion/Approval D. Restore Open Hours Discussion/Direction X. ANNOUNCEMENTS XI. ADJOURNMENT Adjourn BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY Burlingame Public Library Board of Trustees Minutes June 21, 2005 I. Call to Order President McCormack called the meeting to order at 4:30pm. II. Roll Call Trustees Present: Bruce Carlton, Deborah Griffith, Katie McCormack, and Pat Toft Trustee Absent: Nancy Brock Staff Present: Al Escoffier, City Librarian Sidney Poland, Recorder The City Librarian introduced new Trustees Bruce Carlton and Deborah Griffith. Trustee Brock, who is completing Dave Carr's term, is traveling. III. Warrants and Special Funds The'Trustees unanimously approved the warrants. M/S/C (loft/Carlton), IV. Minutes The Trustees unanimously approved the minutes of the May 24, 2005 meeting. M/S/C (McCormack/Toft) V. Correspondence and Attachments Correspondence and Attachments were noted. VI. From the Floor VII. Reports A. City Librarian's Report - Highlights of Report 1. Library Budget - The Library budget includes a 3% increase in both personnel and the operating budget. Collection budgets remain below their high of 2002. Even though 65 titles were removed from the periodical collection, magazine costs rose sufficiently to necessitate a budget increase. 2. On-Line Migration - The date for the new automated system.is on schedule for August 17th. 48o Primrose Road,Burlingame,CA 94010-4083 Phone (650) 558-7474'Fax (650) 342-6295'Email:www.burlingame.org/library 3. New Children's Librarian - Kathy von Mayrhauser �- has been appointed to the 25 hour benefited position as Children's Librarian. Kathy received her Masters of Library Science from San Jose State University in June. 4. Express Check - A third self check out machine will be installed this summer at the main Library. May statistics for self check users at Easton are 48% and 36% at the main Library. B. Foundation Report October 7th Fundraiser - The committee, chaired by Lisa Rosenthal, is presently firming up its plans for a children oriented event celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Foundation. Children's programs, in various formats, will be in progress throughout the evening. A treasure chest, a raffle, and balloons with prizes inside are just a few of the entertainment features of the evening. VIII. Unfinished Business A. Status of Statue Installation - David Biggs has officially contracted to build the base for the statue. Ro Logrippo Spinelli is writing the inscription for the bronze plaque. IX. New Business A Trustee Informational Binders - The City Librarian reviewed the newly revised Trustee informational handout with the new Trustees. He discussed the Patriot Act and how it currently relates to Library policy and procedure. B. Council Liaisons - The Trustees decided to delay assigning their individual council liaison until the July 19th meeting when all Trustees would be present. C. Board Meetings Day and Times - The Trustees discussed changing the meeting time from 4:30pm to 5:00 or 5:30pm. No permanent time change was determined but the Trustees did decide to schedule the July 19th meeting to begin at 5:30pm in the Library Conference Room. X. Announcements Library Board of Trustee Minutes June 21,2005 XI. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 5:30pm. The next meeting will be held July 19, 2005 at 5:30pm in the Conference Room. Respectfully Submitted, Alfred H. Escoffier City Librarian Library Board of Trustee Minutes June 21,2005 rs`j � K�ffi 04 - r � � " � � P {+ � 3 � i Some Highlights of ALA Conference July 1, 2005 1) Tutor.com. The Tutor.com product is thriving throughout the country and is being expanded into schools, institutions, etc. It is being spearheaded by local public libraries. LA County Library has an intriguing program that reaches virtually all young people in the County. 2) Tutor.com Update for BPL: We will continue with our program of Tutor.com facilities in Reference, Children's and Branch. This program has been sponsored with funds from the California State Library for the past several years. We will be picking up 25% of the cost in the 2006-2007 fiscal year. Remote Tutor.com training will take place later this summer. 3) Audio Books are hot! Public libraries throughout the country are finding audio books very popular, as we do here. Downloadable e- books are the next service that libraries are offering in this area. PLS currently has Overdrive on our PLS computers. These books are more technical in nature. We are considering adding Recorded Books which can be downloaded to an MP3 player or other device for use for a 3 week period, with a 3 week renewal. We are hoping to begin this service in PLS after we implement the new automated system. We will need to address the issue of whether these are downloadable in the library. 4) Google Print Project. Google will be digitizing book collections at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, University of Michigan and Oxford in a special project which will create one copy for Google and one copy for the library. This will eventually include 10.5 million titles. Rareness in these collections is common, making it a most unique database. There is an intention to include these materials in OCLC World Cat. 5) Access to OCLC World Cat. The California State Library has approved a grant that will offer a catalog of the collections of the libraries in California on OCLC World Cat. Training will be offered. We are planning for this to be a button on our new PLS website/catalog, as well as a button on our local site. More details to follow. 6) OCLC News. OCLC expects to enter their 1 Billionth record sometime this year! The entries have been increasing exponentially in the last few years. OCLC had is inception in August 1971. OCLC's net library has 91,000 titles listed from 14,000 libraries. 7) New to the OCLC Board of Directors. San Mateo County Library Director, Vickey Johnson has been elected to the OCLC International Board of Directors. 8) Growing Trends seen at ALA: a. One book-One Community. A program whereby an entire community reads the same book and a number of activities are planned around the reading. We have had requests for this at BPL. b. Leadership development. Management issues and succession planning. c. Non-English as a first language. Addressing the need for serving the non- English user. d. Fundamentals of fundraising. Including Planned giving which our Foundation is beginning to discuss. e. Google. What's in store for Google print and Google Scholar? f. Outsourcing for Libraries. Upcoming Conference Opportunities: • California Library Association, Pasadena, November 4-7, 2005 • Public Library Association, Boston, March 20-25, 2006 (Next conference in Minneapolis in 2008) Escoffier, Al From: Susan Negreen [snegreen@cla-net.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:46 AM To: calix@listproc.sjsu.edu Subject: [CALIX:4152] Governor Signs Budget-Protects PLF from further cuts July 11, 2005 TO: CLA MEMBERS/SYSTEMS/NETWORK CONTACTS FROM: Mike Dillon, Lobbyist f` Christina Dillon, Lobbyist RE: NEWS FROM THE CAPITOL GOVERNOR SIGNS BUDGET- PROTECTS PLF FROM FURTHER CUTS Before noon today, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the 2005-06 State Budget in the majestic rotunda of the State Capitol building, only 11 days past the constitutional deadline for passage of a budget. Under heavy security, and flanked by legislative leaders and Budget Chairs from the Assembly and Senate, the Governor signed the $90 billion (General Fund) Budget and subsequently released a list of reductions. We are pleased to report that Governor Schwarzenegger chose to protect the baseline for the Public Library Foundation (PLF) at$14.1 million and did not make any further reductions to the fund. You may recall that in his January version if the Budget, the Governor had proposed a $2.2 million reduction to the PLF, and we worked with the Budget — Subcommittees to restore that funding in the May Revision Budget process. Today CLA can declare a small victory, and offer sincere thanks to the Governor for his willingness to protect library funding in the 2005-06 Budget. Ultimately, the Governor and his staff had a choice to accept the Budget subcommittee action and agree to the$2.2 million restoration for the PLF, reject the $2.2 million augmentation entirely and revert back to the Governor's January Budget level, or make even further reductions to the PLF. Thus, with this Budget, the Governor and his staff made a conscientious decision to save the PLF from further reductions. We would also like to report that the Budget signed today does not reflect any further cuts to any other library programs or State Library operations. -----------------------------------------------------------------ca I i x-+ Views expressed on CALIX are the opinion of the sender and do not necessarily reflect the position of the California Library Association. How to get off CALIX: Subscribers are strongly encouraged to keep abreast of CLA and California library news via this mailing list. To sign off from the list, send email to listproc@listproc.sjsu.edu with the following request: SIGNOFF CALIX or UNSUBSCRIBE CALIX in the body of the message. Make sure your subject line is blank and nothing other than the command is in the body of the message. -----------------------------------------------------------------calix-- 1 BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY City Librarian's Report July 19, 2005 Online System Migration on Track Staff is working to keep the migration date for the new system on course. The new PLS-wide system will replace the 10 year old Dynix system which is no longer maintained by the vendor. The new system, Innovative Interface's product "Millennium" is a web- based product in a windows format, which should make it easier to use for the public. On the staff side, those who have windows background will definitely find the transition easier. We began our formal training on July 12th with two sessions at the Millbrae Library computer lab. We will have trained 24 staff that day. We will then have a hiatus until August 1St. There will be several points along the way where we will be unable to access the database for patron records (about 10 days) or make any changes to the database (about 10 days), so we won't quite be at "business as usual." We are planning to "Go Live" on Wednesday, August 17th. At this point I have not suggested any library closure, however, we may need to do so as we get closer to the opening day. Other libraries with this system have closed for up to a week; we are hoping that will not be the case for us, since we have most of our new hardware in place, or will, thanks to Barry and Jeff. It is likely that we will not have Express Check available the first week of the system; we do not think the new system will have an effect on the use of SAM/Internet access. The heroes of this effort are all of the staff who have worked so hard on the various system task forces: Amy Gettle, Barry Mills, Pat Harding, . Patti Flynn, and Vera Warrick. I offer my thanks to all the staff that have worked and will work hard to make this system the best it can be. 480 Primrose Road,Burlingame,CA 94010-4083 Phone (650) 558-7474'Fax(650) 342-6295'Email:www.burtingame.org/library Public Relations for our Patrons We are doing some PR for our users around the new system. Bookmarks will begin to appear in books checked out as of July 12, 2005, and we will have some posters and fliers announcing the changes. We are urging patrons to replace lost or damaged library cards for free in the next 30 days so that their access to the systems won't be denied. Press releases will be issued by Peninsula Library System. Outsourcing of Overdue Notices We will be outsourcing our overdue notices to our Unique Management vendor. This is the vendor who processes our collections operations. They will send notices out in a first class envelope with the return address of the local library. Though located in Nevada, our vendor's notices will look like they were mailed from Burlingame. The savings to the PLS libraries is about 30% for this process. We are confident that they can provide good service at a reduced cost. We will continue to get library users on email notification, which is, of course the least expensive means of issuing notices. Children's Summer Reading Clubs The Reading Clubs are highly popular this summer, thanks to our promotional efforts in the Burlingame and Hillsborough schools. We are offering 3 programs this summer: "Read to Me" for young readers; School age; and Teen. The theme of all three is: "Super heroes, super readers." Those who complete the "Read to me" or School age club will receive a paperback book. Teens will receive a gift certificate for $ 15.00 from Burlingame's Books, Inc. The materials for the three clubs are underwritten by the Burlingame Library Foundation and the Burlingame Lions Club. Popular Materials Room Changes Beginning later this summer, you will begin to see the changes to the Popular Materials room thanks to the efforts of the Library Foundation. We will be reworking the room to make it more user friendly, with lower shelving, gondola-type shelving and more display of popular materials. This will likely happen in phases in August. Along with this change in shelving and display will be a philosophical change in how we handle paperback books. Quality paperbacks (the ones that are $ 12.00 or so) will be fully cataloged and processed by our vendor. They will have plastic covered jackets and be made more durable for use. This means the quality paperbacks will be available in the 2 `. database and available for holds. These items can be checked out at the Express Checks and we will expect them to be returned, as they will remain on patron records as a checked out item. Overdues will be assessed. We are doing this in part because of the expense of losing these quality paperbacks. We also would like these popular materials available to users in our catalog. The mass market paperbacks will also be bar coded with a unique paperback barcode so that they can be checked out on Express Check and have an alert on the label that they can circulate for up to 6 weeks, but should be returned to the library. TV Promotion of the Library's Summer Programs The City Librarian did a short video clip for Comcast to advertise the summer reading programs at the Burlingame Public Library. The segment was part of Comcast's community programming. The interview took place in San Francisco with veteran commentator Jack Hanson. The clip will be shown on CNN segments during the month of July. Upcoming Events: • 19 July- Library Board Meeting, 5:30 PM, Library Board Room • 16 August- Library Board Meeting, 5:30 PM, Library Board Room �— • 17 August- "Go Live" Date for Millennium • 1 September- Regular Foundation Board Meeting, 4:30 PM (new date) • 4 & 5 September- Labor Day Holiday, Closed • 20 September- Library Board Meeting, 5:30 PM, Library Board Room • 7 October- Foundation Fundraiser, 6:30-8:30 PM • 21, 22, 23 October- Foundation Book Sale, Lane Room 3 Library Board of Trustees Meeting, Item VII.B: Library Foundation Report • Silent Auction for Collectible Books. A silent auction will be held as a future separate event for the more collectible books. • Book Sale. The Foundation Book Sale will be: October 21, 22, 23rd. • EBay Auction. Jim Nagel is adding collectible books for sale for the Foundation on EBay. This has been a good source of extra income. • Donor Packet. A donor packet containing information of interest to a potential corporate or individual donor has been developed and will be distributed to the Board on September 1St. • Easton Book Spines were a hit! We added approximately 25 new names to the books spines donors and will have them installed in the next month. We have about 8-10 empty shelves to go. This can continue to be a valuable fundraiser. • Foundation Newsletter. Chair Lisa Rosenthal has agreed the newsletter should go out in early November to capture the fundraising event on October 7th. This will also fulfill our requirement to publish the donor names for the current year. • Public Relations Bookmark. We are looking for a corporate donor to underwrite the first of our bookmarks publicizing the Foundation. The book mark has been designed to leave a space in the middle for the donating entity to place their name and/or logo. �" • Website Design. The Foundation Board is looking into a professional upgrade in the Foundation website. We will work the city on their website upgrade. • Planned Giving. This topic was discussed as a future growth builder for an endowment for the foundation. Attorney Laurelle Gutierrez-Lundquist agreed to draft an information sheet on how to make a gift to the Foundation in your will, trust, or charitable remainder trust. • Library Wish List. The City Librarian will compile and distribute a wish list. • Matching Donors. Some corporations such as Bank of America offer matching donations for individual gifts. The Foundation is looking into this as an option for enhancing donor gifts. • Recorded Books. Downloadable audio books will likely be instituted at the library in the next few months. This will be a Wishlist item at $ 4,500.00 from the Foundation. • Corporate Donors. The feasibility of each Board member taking an individual or corporate donor to do an "ask" was discussed. This will be discussed at our next Board meeting. Library Board of Trustees Meeting Item VII C• City Centennial Report • Organizational Meeting. Held July 7th with over 50 people, including Mary Herman Armstrong and Dale Perkins, both formerly with the Library Foundation/Trustees. • Brainstorming Events. The group broke up into two groups, one headed by Jim Nantell and the other headed by Mayor Joe Galligan to brainstorm ideas for the year long celebration. The brainstorming lists will be available shortly • Community Involvement. We are looking for a great deal of community involvement. Individual groups and organizations will plan to use the 100th anniversary as a public relations device for the year. • Library Involvement. The Board of Trustees and the Library Foundation will be involved in the Centennial celebration which will last from June 2007-June 2008. One of you on the Board presently may wish to represent the library on this committee. The Board had expressed interest in this project in the past. �- Library Board of Trustees, Item IX, A: City Council Liaisons In the past, the Board has found it useful to form a personal liaison with City Council members. In light of the recent resignation of Mike Coffey and the upcoming Council election with 4 seats open, the Board may or may not wish to go forward with this effort at this time. • Mayor Joe Galligan • Vice Mayor, Cathy Baylock • Councilwoman Terry Nagel • Councilwoman Rosalie O'Mahony • Vacant Library Board of Trustees, Item IX, B: Library Board Meeting Times At your last Board meeting there was some discussion of changing library board meeting times. The suggestion was to keep the meeting on the Third Tuesday of the month, but move it from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM. This items needs Board action to be approved. Library Board of Trustees Meeting, Item IX, C: Supplement Employee Recognition Fund The library sponsors quarterly library employee recognition during the regular all staff meetings. Employees are honored for their longevity with the city and for other accomplishments. Typically, we give employees a small token gift. The most recent has been a $ 5.00 gift certificate to Peet's Coffee or Books, Inc. We would like to continue this endeavor at our all staff meetings. Budget Impact: The Board offers $ 500.00 annually to this project from the Trustees Fund. �— Library Board of Trustees Meeting, Item IX, D: Restore Library Open Hours Background: Several Trustees and City Council members have suggested that the library consider more open hours for the coming year. While I think more open hours are always welcome, I have some concerns regarding this issue. My response to those who have asked has been that I see this as a year of stabilization of the library budget after 3 years of hits. We are not certain that the revenues have stabilized for the long term. A. Timing: The City Department Heads have been working with the City Manager and Finance Director on budget priorities since January 2005. It was agreed that we would have a replacement priority plan to replace items cut from the budget should revenues improve. This plan is not yet in place. The City Council may feel that there may be items of a higher priority than library hours citywide that should be restored first. B. Funding: The funding for the library hours, depending on how many we restore, would be between $ 40,000 and $ 50,000 per year. The city would need to agree to this increase in the library's 2005-2006 budget in order for this to take place. Taking the funds out of our current budget, would not be possible, as we are already 8 positions down from 3 years ago and $ 50,000 down in collections/media funding. I would like to see the collection funding restored first. C. Public Relations: If library hours were restored, I would want them to be restored for the long term. The cost of printing new brochures and changing the telephone book and other brochures and websites is" expensive. D. Options to Consider: I would see two options for the Board to consider at this time. The one time gift from Joan and Ralph Lane, of$ 50,000 which kept the library open Friday nights for one year, was given to the Foundation for the express purpose of staying open. I would not suggest that the Foundation attempt to fund further open hours from their ongoing budget. If the full Board agrees that the library hours should be restored, I see two options: a) Priority for Next Year, 2006-2007. Alert the City Council via a letter or memo of the Board's desire to restore funding for library hours and request this be considered in the 2006/2007 library budget. The added cost to the budget would be about $ 50,000.00 per year. b) Priority for this Year, 2005-2006. Alert the City Council via letter and personal presentation and request that the library hours be restored with additional city funding of $ 50,000 this fiscal year and for the foreseeable future. E. System Hours Background. Attached are two matrices of Peninsula Library System hours: " a) Matrix of Open Hours. Burlingame is about average at 62 hours per week. Three years ago we were at 73 hours per week, the largest number of open hours in the system. b) Matrix of Sunday Hours. Burlingame is one of 6 of the 9 library jurisdictions in PLS open on Sundays. Matrix of Peninsula Library System Average Open Hours July 12, 2005 Jurisdiction Weekly Hours Burlingame 62* Daly City 59* Menlo Park 59 Redwood City 62* San Bruno 59 San Mateo 52* SMCO/Foster City 63* South San Francisco 57* * In cities/county with multiple branches, the branch with the highest number of service hours was used in the figure above. Matrix of Peninsula Library System Libraries Open on Sunday `.. July 12, 2005 Jurisdiction Open Sunday Burlingame Yes Daly City No Menlo Park Yes Redwood City Yes San Bruno No San Mateo Yes SMCO/Foster City Yes (4 out of 10 county branches are open) South San Francisco Yes SMCCCD No * In cities/county with multiple branches, it is only the main library that is open on Sunday. Sunday hours are usually 4 hours, with the exception of Menlo Park at 5 hours. BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE 2005 Patron Statistical Classes - New Adds Aegistered Borrowers Previous month's total #Added Total Registered Burlingame Adults 18,831 123 18,954 Burlingame Children 5,387 43 5,430 Hillsborough Adults 2,828 21 2,849 Hillsborough Children 1,530 20 1,550 Non-San Mateo Co. Borrowers 1,858 28 1,886 Totals 30,434 235 30,669 Item Statistical Classes-Use Counts Circulation Activity Main Easton Branch Adult Print Materials 22,097 1,171 Children's Print Materials 11,097 2,073 Audio/Visual Materials 11,913 1,293 Overview Checkouts Circulation Totals This month total Main 48,822 This month previous year 52,490 -7.0% Decrease This month total Branch 5,051 This month previous year 0* 100% Increase This month Grand Total 53,873 This month previous year 52,490 2.0% Increase 'aston Closed `*-Express Check Use Patrons Items %of Circulation Main 3,879 13,845 37% Easton 474 2,086 46% Reference Activity Inter Library Loans Questions Lent 2,452 Reference 3,422 Borrowed 2,733 Children's 1,565 TOTAL 5,185 Lower Level 2,606 Branch 856 TOTAL 8,449 Collections Main Titles Volumes Main Titles Added Branch Volumes Added Adult Non Fiction 180 61 1 Children's Non Fiction 40 19 9 YA Non Fiction 0 0 0 Adult Fiction 454 311 59 Children's Fiction 158 55 34 YA Fiction 167 13 7 Cassettes Audio 2 1 0 Compact Discs 63 54 10 Videos 0 0 0 hildren's Audio 1 0 0 Children's Video 0 0 0 Children's Compact Disc 25 0 0 DVD's 175 78 48 Children's DVD's 43 0 0 TOTALS 1,308 592 168 BUFtLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE 2005 PAGE 2 D nix Deposit to City Treasurer Main $10,064.58 Branch* 588.10 Total $10,652.68 Main and Easton Deposits Revolving Account Photocopies/Print Fees (Main)** $877.21 Trustees Special Fund Branch $ 10.85 Estimated User Traffic Main 34,642 Daily Average Main 1,155 Estimated User Traffic Easton 3,225 Daily Average Easton 124 Community Room Adult* TOTAL MEETINGS HELD 13 336 Adult Library Programs Attendance Lectures, Film Series etc. 2> 87 Book Groups 2 30 Children's and Young Adult Attendance Pre-school Story Time 6-a 185 Toddler Story Time 6 334 Total Story Time 12 Total Story Time Attendance 519 lass Visits 21 437 Preschool Outreach 0 0 Total Class Visits 21 Total Class Visits Attendance 437 Special Programs Attendance Magic Dan 250 Lariat Larry 155 Total Attendance 405 Children's Reference Questions Main ­YA Main Easton Story Times &Special Programs Attendance Questions Easton Preschool 2 58 Reference 865 Toddler 3 118 Total Programs 5 Total Attendance 176 Class Visits 0 Attendance 0 Special Program Dad and Me at The Library 65 Easton Internet Usage User Sessions 509 Main Internet User Sessions Hour, Half Hour, & Express Childrens Total 12,237 274 1 12,511 BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE 2005 PAGE 3 October 2004 Outreach Statistics Total Number of Active Outreach Patrons 19 Deliveries 29 Pick Ups 4 Books 152 Magazines 10 Videos 6 Books on Tape 0 Paperbacks 0 Total Library Materials 168