HomeMy WebLinkAboutMin - LB - 1968.10.08 MINUTES OF THE MEETING
OF THE
BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
October 8, 1968
CALL TO ORDER:
A regular meeting of the Burlingame Public Library Board was held on the above given date.
The meeting was called to order at 7:15 P. M. by Chairman Cohendet.
ROLL CALL:
Trustees Present: Chairman Cohendet, Trustee Hechinger, Trustee Amstrup, Trustee
Lynes, Trustee De Martini
Trustees Absent: None
MINUTES:
The minutes of the meeting of September 17, 1961 were approved and adopted.
BILLS:
Bills in the amount of $2,953.15 were ordered paid on a motion by Trustee DeMartini,
seconded by Trustee Amstrup and carried unanimously.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT:
The Librarian's report was read and ordered filed. There was mention of the purchase
of the new copier, which the Librarian stated had arrived. Trustee Hechinger asked for
information on the proposed cash register for the circulation desk, and the Librarian
said that a Remington had been ordered and that it would give a receipt. He made mention
of the additional time it would take for the staff to operate the register, and the fact
that the only other library which has one is San Francisco Public.
COMMUNICATIONS:
There were no communications.
OLD BUSINESS:
San Francisco Cooperative Reference Project: - The Librarian informed the Board that he
would be attending a meeting on this project in San Francisco on the afternoon of October 9.
All materials on this project would be gathered and correlated to be sent in to the State
the first of the month for their approval. Chairman Cohendet queried the Librarian as to
when we might expect to have an answer, and he stated it would take at least a couple
of months.
Special Fund: - The Librarian stated that the City Clerk was asked to inform the City
Auditor that the Board desired his recommendation in writing as to the Special Fund.
However, we have not yet received any communication from the Auditor, and the Board
decided to wait on this subject until we have heard from him.
Non-Resident School Library Cards:
The Board was informed by the Librarian that he had set up a meeting with Mrs. Coleman
to discuss this matter, but that she was unable to meet with him. However, she informed
him by phone that San Mateo Library charged one dollar for an individual card for the
time the school visited the library. Trustee Lynes mentioned that one solution would be
for each school to have about ten cards, but that he had talked this over with the public
school librarian, Mrs. Gregor, and in view of the fact that there is a very real interest
in the school libraries and they are going to be considerably improved with professional
librarians in charge, the individual card program would not be necessary. He stated that
he would not favor this card program particularly for the intermediate schools because
of the unreliability of that particular age group. The Librarian said that we probably
would continue the program of one card to a school, but that he would like to get more
information from Mrs. Coleman. He said that the non-resident fees in San Mateo are the
same as ours.
NEW BUSINESS:
Holt Report: Trustee DeMartini asked how many copies of this report were furnished by
Holt and the Librarian replied that Holt's contract specifies that he furnish only one
typed master from which we could make copies. The Librarian mentioned that the cost of
making the necessary copies would run around $260.00. He informed the Board that he and
his staff had found quite a few discrepancies in this report, that these would be presented
in the form of an addendum to the report at the time the report was submitted to the
Board for study; and that the same procedure would be followed for the submission of the
report to the City Council. There was a general discussion of how the matter of corrections
should be handled with Mr. Holt, and the opinion was expressed that there should be a
meeting with him so that these changes could be carried out.
ADJOURNMENT:
Trustee Lynes moved that the meeting be adjourned. It was seconded by Trustee DeMartini
and passed. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 P. M.
Respectfully submitted,
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G. P. Lechich
Clerk of the Board