HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Packet - LB - 1956.12.16 MINUTES OF THE MEETING
OF THE
BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
NOVEMBER 28, 1956
Trustees Present: Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Cohendet, Mr. Cargill, Mr. Crosby.
Trustees Absent: None.
MINUTES
The minutes of the previous meeting of October 17, 1956 were read and approved.
BILLS
on a motion made by Mr. Crosby and seconded by Mr. Cargill, bills in the amount
of $2,698.22 were ordered paid.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
The Librarian's report was read and accepted, and the financial statement was
approved and placed on file.
OLD BUSINESS
New Branch Site. The president of the library board, Mrs. Harrison, and the
Librarian called on Carl Snyder, representative of the Trousdale Company, in
regard to the present standing of the lot being held for the library on the
corner of Clarisse and Pasada in the Mills Estates. It was generally agreed that
this lot would not be suitable for a branch site. Other possibilites were the
acquisition of a site from the elementary school board and various sites from
private individuals. Mr. Snyder stated that the Trousdale people no longer held
any property on the lower portion of Trousdale Avenue. He also stated that they
would continue to hold the previously mentioned lot for us until such time as
another site had been found.
The Librarian later had a conference with Mr. Constantino in regard to various
properties and he suggested that a suitable site might be available on the
Westernmost corner of the elementary school property, saying that such a site
would be more central to the Burlingame residential area and on the main travel-
led thoroughfare.
The Librarian consulted with Mr. White about this suggestion. He stated that the
architect was in process of re-designing the building and that it was to face on
Trousdale, which, to his belief, would eliminate a suitable site on the West end
of the property. However, as soon as thearchitecthas completed the plans we
will be informed. The Board agreed that time is of the essence and that the
Librarian should again consult with Mr. Constantino and with the architect of the
school building to determine whether this lot will be suitable or not. The
Librarian ascertained that the lot immediately to the west of the school property
has not as yet been sold by the Trousdale Company.
Friends of the Library Group. Mrs. Cohendet reported that since the last board
meeting there had been three mettings of those interested in forming a Friends of
the Library group and that the basic group had been formed and dues collected.
This group is to form the nucleus of a larger organization to be organized in
February. She stated that the Friends of the Library were to hold an open house
at the library on December 14th, 15th and 16th, in order to acquaint others with
this organization and to enlist new memberships. Musical programs, other enter-
tainment and displays are planned for the affair, and hostesses from the San Mateo
section of the San Francisco Junior League, under the direction of Mrs. Charles
Bulotti, will be on hand to greet the public and to'serve refreshments.
Minutes of the Board Meeting of November 28, 1956
Page 2.
Non-Resident MembershiR by Contract. The Librarian stated that he had discussed with
the State Librarian the possibility of a Federal grant which would allow free cards
to the residents of Hillsborough in order to better acquaint them with the facilities
of a public library. She agreed that the proposition had some merit and should be
followed up. The above information was discussed with Mr. Stiene, the city manager
of Hillsborough, who agreed that it had possibilities. He also believed that some
mutual arrangement could be worked out and requested that he be given some library
statistics with this in mind.
COMMUNICATIONS
A copy of a letter to the mayor was received giving Ray Burns resignation from the
library board. This copy will be held in the files.
NEW BUSINESS
Stacks addition. The excellent article in the Advance-Star relating to the crowded
conditions of the library was noted and a committee was suggested to determine the
necessary steps to be taken in order to request suitable financing for the immediate
construction of additional stack space. Appointments to the committee will be made
at the next board meeting.
ADJOURNMENT
On a motion by Mr. Crosby and seconded by Mrs. Cohendet, the meeting was adjourned.
Res ec ally submitted,
� 7
Lechich
Clerk of the Board
LIBRARIANIS REPORT
DECET-J3ER 19, 1956
CIRCULA�I1: The circulation for November 1956 was 336 higher than 1955 but, as
3�e previous month, does not reflect in the daily average because of the ad-
ditional days the library was open. The increase in the daily average was 1.2
per cent over 1955.
1JEETIIIGS AT THE, LIBRARY: The I1'riends of the Library held an open house December
M METEevent was decided upon after three committee meetings
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called by t,;ra. Caendet had been held to discuss possible plans for introducing
the Friends of the Library group and expanding its membership. In the same way
it was decided that a Friends of the Library brochure was needed to explain the
purpoae of the group, as well as an application for membership form, and an r.n-
nouncement of the three-day open house in the form of an invitation to be sent
to a suggested mailing list and to be given out to patrons at the circulation
desk of the library,
The Friday night musicale was held in the IL'ain Reading Room with the nr•o;"rar
composed of IIarp selections played by the young Burlingame harpist, Penny Sc3 -n-
stone, and Swedish .rolk songs sung; by firs. Frances Carlson who was accorapanied'.
on an aecordian by 1,-Ps. Betty i4h3ppla. About forty to fifty people attended.
The Saturday a rternoon. open house was attended by one hundred and fifty
c�;.ldren, as wo .Z res adults nutmbering perhaps twenty or thirty, who enjoyed the
?��ram of ChristrLs selections sung by the Junior Choir of St. Paul's Episcoral
Church, and an ,reei.ated the humor and charm of Lirs. Chamberlin and her hand.
puppet, Barnab,,,- Lretle 1ioo1c-Pug, who read stories to the children.
Sunday of t•eraoon the Peninsula String quartet presented a concert to an
audience of ab,).t seventy-five persons who were enthusiastic in their responses,
The San I. l ,:o unit of the San Francisco Junior League, under the directi,cn
of Tars. Charle.; Julotti, furni uhed hostesses and refreshments for each of these
events. Mir. )` f,';rson I,-.'rfee of Valla Chartier donated the punch to them and
I.:r. '.:illiam LL' �' furnished the paper napkins, doilies and paper cups at a norAnal
price Over 'iousa�ad� home-rade cookies were supplied by the Junior League.
The Garde: lection of the Newcomor's Club supplied three appropriate floc a.l
decorations an,'. . rs. Thayer contributed two beautiful arrangements. Mrs. .'�,aods.
using an exqui . r ..e silver center piece owned by her aunt, lrs. Arrasby, creatca
a notable table _'ecoration as a backGround for the refreshments.
Ya-s. Cohen 1., was responsible for the general arrangements, publicity and
contacts with v• '_ous organizations. It was only through her untiring; effo^°t:i
that the ineipi. ; '; friends group was formed. It is to be hoped that at any futud-e
meetings others i �.11 come forward to carry the brunt of the organization and r!�)-
lieve the liasor c.fficer from the many tasks that demand time and attention in
the f ounda t ion c% a ilew group,
Additional c ',p in connection with the three-day open house was riven b,y ti-if�
following people: l;;rs. Cohende3t and I::rs. Bulotti addressed 250 envelopes.
were stuffed wits rochures, applications for r?embership and invitations by i..r.
Lechich, assisted by I.Irs. Lechich. Alphabetical records of this railing list ware
typed by tars. Lc rich and I.rs. Dein. Tirs. Dein donated two hours of her time,
af' it working r;. ;ht hours at her library job, to assisting in folding brochures
a..,..applicati.i- : and typing lists. About 400 other envelopes were adcLressea and
stuffed by Tis .nd Lrs. Lechich and an alphabetical list was typed by I.:rs. Levhich
from these n .,, 3* Mrs. Harrison addressed and stuffed an additional 75 or mare.
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Locillich v;rot-, �_a invi at' oi--t, i-li cor- ncl-i,�mts by 'Ir o. Dalottl and
::firs • %Cohendot, "'ho of lu-llio Library brochure rms, based on an Anicrican
Library Association nublf-cation, roviscO by 1_rs. Le-chich to fi local
cltuation#
Joan illaher, a hijm school studont and sister of one of the libran?y )a--(,;s,
mado a poster to rmblicize the puppet shorn, and prepared a stencil drawing of
the P-a-ppot fror-- T&ich :Irs. Lcohich r-lade book rmkks for the children to encnu-ra-,e
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ulicir- joinin.- as junior monbers of the !'rionds of the Library group*
1.4'arron '.:ycliffe provided bac1r,7.,round nusic for the three-day open 11-10-0,..so,
so=rin- tonpox tape rocordin-s., and brim-inZ some of his own recorCs .,
-.o vias on hand to operate the ocroi-p-mont talk iiith interested patrons ;a-M-1, do
musical reviovjs of tho scheduled eventsspartly on his oven tine.
Harr-Lot arrot i.:arrack sent in to the nowspapors publicity stories of tho
o_l' the Library's imsicales as part of her ro,-ul:ar library job,
Shizuko Yazavja did an oriontal dance in Japanese costume at the Saturday
afternoon childrents pro7
�ran.. til-Lich was an authentic and approo-1.atod novelty,
'Trs. Mulcahy, newly retired f:oori branch library duties., was klArid ono-_11-11
to cor-,io in foi tho Satiarday raid E*undayj open house pro:;ron.s to make the Intro-
ductions of each artist or �,Toup apnoarin- and to oxplain about the obioc:tivos
of the V_-ionds of the Library soup to the audience,
It is hoped ti-int the Lions Club will re-inburso :rq L,_,c1iic1_a for ilio nay-
i. ent of 'U'lic c.-cpor-, a 1-n connoctf-on .-)_4th tho puppot oll-Low as they have indicatod
they intend to do,
it should be noted that tl-,-o invitations -L;o the upon houso were ,m-fled
n -resident car(M-101jos.-
tho nln �jo z000plc interosted in -.rusic anct to non a
P I -i t ,
,,,,o 1-1sts conimir.od sono ro�7.ilar puti on. Polcido -its of Darlin areP but it Vol C
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sco- advisable to send out Invitat , ons to fcuituao �m eo i to mole of 0111, ovin
patrons*
After tho t1-iroe-day oiDen house, tv'h..., of `,-,he Library totalled
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thirty-ono, of vilion throe are pat.rons,
1�, L-1 PU
c'TAr'1ZS: "' ie s1iolvin- ha- been t in place at the -'ranc.1, and the closed staclrr
has been partly re-slaclvod on the space - ado available by the aC.di-
iatorial El
tional sholvim, in the childronts coon and the alcove.
AUTO 71�OOK FAC-1]: ' I'ho Auto Look 1?a,-o also arrived and has been installed by tho
Streeopt-iFF nt. 1--l-io Police Dopar-vonthas aSrcod to have the itiblic
To.Dartmont paint the for:,,or poen (15 nimltc ) par-T-lin-7, strip wl-Ite () minuto ) ;
and also to paint the s1;ri-;) at the north on(I 'con, "Ih-' s .iill is re care of
throe cars; and- as the new wall.t alonl- that s;de w-111 be In shortly,, t1i-iri ar-
ran- nont should bo just as convoniont as the fox-mor one.
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Juvon.1110 Dapartzzont Lovoi.-,bor 21st to Ulecon-ber 19th,, 1956, Book
love"Iber 25th
to �'-ceriber 1st 1030) was colobratod at the Darlin,ame Public
Library with sm-ic of the classes of the -.._A_1rlin--Ox.1e -T,.-lomentary Schools visitin.-
the childrents rooirl to view tho now -'all books. = over-ber 26th,. the second
�r
class of ;Liss "ray from Hoover School cm� -ovonber 27th, another secondade 1 0
;rade class from the oover School ca--ic; 'j'OV07-iber 20th, -.1iss Florm.dn-13 first
f,lrade class iron the korskin,7, School cane; 7Tovonber 29th,, 11iss Zizichls second
I ide class fron the P-rshin- School cm�,o; rand. 17ovo!-,ber 3,0thj, the lift; rade
Mon tho '64ashin:;ton School came,
Decombor 5th, the novi yellow metal book shelves arrived for the childron's
room* TlAs entailed novin3 every book in the room. At the present time, all
the easy books, for the younr- children have been arran,'�;odm, and the juvenile
non-fiction books have all boon shifted to fit into the increased space. '2hc
juvenile fiction has yet to be ro-arranCod to fit in in alphabotice.1 orOLcr,
t
LI172A.�ZAIA S'
Tho room looked very nico with its notia arran-oriont for the Opon IIouso hold
Doco Tbor 14th thru 16th. (SubrAttod by Ilary Yana Foltz, Childronts Librarian, )
_:''� OF LIi;P.A-TT',IA7I13 FU POIil for neotin- of Doce bor 19th, 1906*
rospectfully submitted,
G. r. Lechich
Clcr':L of the Board
BUDI 7=4 T EXY; DZTM=
IOC;i F ? z � ID56
CLO I S y lis ToDato iia a falance
�:ionth Allowance Total
3-1 Salaries 4,056.03 240341.28 490451.00 250109.72
1.T-11 Supplies 64*01 367.30 :?00,00 532.70
1-12 I'rintin- 2CG0€30 651.63 080000 228.37
I-13 L�. Ott Hoat.,
Powor Zs ;Vater 213076 020.G2 20200.00 10379,3G
:I-14 Tolaphone 45,04 105.10 300.00 , 164.90
-1G Dld-0 Grounds
Ia.intenanco 459012 060.95 18500000 531005
.2-17 3ooICs (% ijaps 100G0002 6,000+40 100031000 4,082.51
: -17A Periodicals —a
570002 000000 20993
`,,,,17 ?-Und-in; 138031 049.30 2,200.00 1,250970
=_.19 Convention -•- 107.20 125000 17,80
I -10A !Auto Allowance 13e 52 117e80 125,00 77,20
.1-20 Dues to Library
Association 20.00 2G,50 80,00 53.50
U-26 Contract 2300#30 1,167040 2,n00,00 10232.60
0-90 Capital .�p. --- -_- 2;588.00 20566,00
Total beforo Salaries 28009073 120730.31 24,943.00 12,150.60
Total after Salaries 6,155.81 37,130.59 74,400000 37,269.41
STATISTICS IS1ICS FUR NOVI-21- E'R 1956
CI RC'JLATI OI 11ain Dranch
Books: Adult !Ton-Fiction 53703 19041
Child 1.on-riction 1,326 700
Adult Fiction 5,333 2,082
Child Fiction 11030 19220
Total T3001c Circulation """" 11•029£3 5,129
Periodicals: 799 799 608 600
Total Dooks f-, Periodicals 70*0597 TsMl*l
5 737
Total :.lain C. �.'hanc:n 200834
Phono,r;raph R000rds; 131 131
Grad Total Circulation ;.'ain c'. 3)"arch (1955 20s,629)
1955 1.56
Daily Average for a.in: 589 536
Daily JVv cra;;o f'or Lran ch: 246 230
Total Avcr:ze 316
IL".-Il 8"Ll RAT I 0_1 IS Adult C'nZlcl n
"ie�bvrship Octobor 31, 105f 73 075 2t,278 9 35,}
1,.,Adclitions v:ovember 235 09 X324
l ithdrawals iJovorribor 209 BO 289
Total RoSistrations as of
lovo:nbor 30, 1956 7,101 2011.07 90308
AC6T�SSIOIIS Al1D � I`'1TrI'uyjALS Oi :OOK S- OCII
AS 0x Grcrd
10-31-'56 Added ("a-ce.•l.led r0ot:a.l
Adult .Ton-Fiction 58,235 272 11 �r�3 4,-,-
Adult
Child .on-. iction � - g i
I 9 6�0 � 3 ;J ;`7C��?
FI8 Mon-10iction 90'10 5 1 3&1 3
Adult 1-'iction 2G,4133 134. 10 2G -)L,,`7
IIS Fiction 2,703 £3 h
C ild Diction 9,0173 g0 �
Total Book Stock as of
November 30, 1056 107,083 534 20 107,450-),
llot Incroaso in Dook Stock: 505
(30 Gifts, and 37G Titles incltzdcd in above fii ores
Pa=pblota adOed: 50
kwimphlets discarded: 154
J.ia_-a added:
�—,IYOSI`i' M 1ITH CI`T'Y TR .:ASU Z
Iain 500.7 3
Dranoh 150,021