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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda Packet - LB - 1955.03.16 Minutes of the meeting of the BiURLIRGA107, PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD , February 16, 1955 Trustees present: President airs. Johnson, 14r. Fichtner, P.irs. Barran Trustees absent. Mr. Cargill Pair. Cargill sent a message asking to be excused. A motion was made by 1i1r. Fichtner, seconded by Mrs. Dsmm that he be excused. Mr. Burns reported that he would be late, but due to the shortness of the agenda, the meeting had adjourned shortly before his arrival. MINUTES The minutes of the previous meeting of January 19, 1955 were read and approved BILLS On a motion by Mr. Fichtner, seconded by Mrs. Daren, the bills in the amount of 61,504.90 were ordered paid. LIBRARIANI S REPORT The librarian's report was accepted and the financial state- ment approved and placed on file. OLD BUSINESS S M . The Librarian stated that the cost of the signs to be located on Burlingame Ave. had not been determined, nor had the City Engineer reported on the status of signs on the highway. Nom: BUSINESS Holidays._ It was the opinion of the Board members present that o i ac ys'on which the City Hall is closed and the library is open should be allowed to accumulate and be taken during vacation periods, in order to keep the regular schedule from becoming overly complicated, which inevitably results when staff members must, of necessity, take their allowed time off during the month of the holiday. As the library is open 75 hours per week, Sundays included, the necessity of staffing it for such long periods results in a very complicated schedule which only becomes more so when holidays are taken during the month that the holidays occur. However, when holidays are allowed to accumulate during, or until vacation time, as school is not in session at such time, the strain on the staff is much less and it is easier to plan schedules with known people on vacation than it is to hit or miss grant days off, Hedge. No action was taken on the request of Mrs. Butcher on the removal of the hedge between the library and the Butcher property as we have not, as yet, received the report of the City .Engineer. ADJOURdo=T It was moved by Mr. Fichtner, seconded by Pits. Dan m, that :the meeting be adjourned. a° p e "�l y submitted, i ;. F. Lechich Clerk of the Board x_4.7.J 'C� ORT Vebirta-r7 16 - i-arch 16., 1055 0 Lo CL t lat 110 n Th,o sl,-tows an -L-:.c1' €'.8e Of about 0 0/0 above last year. .z:anination. Tho e::ar-iination for Library ''-_idowas ;,_Ivcn to six applicants. 110 oral part of the test till loo --,ILvcn A:1)r1l 11th. ,,orioval of ILonco. The Librr.rian informnd ik- itchor that olio should virite a letter to t-ho Libi-ti.ry 1�or,rd in re-'71-rd to 'u-1-io use of cur talk as a moans of ontra-ace to h-r back colart. 11.0 City -L;ninoor' s o2fice has s-ar-voyod the boundary line anC nod that a lar-,e i ajority of the hod,,je vies on our property, j the fence that ras there has 'jeon partially ro-, .oved., in all probs-.bil4.tyj ro :t11hr.,, o to install coz-le sort of -a fence. The library conducted no social events but did publicize Library '.7eek extensively. Visit of I'iss Snith. Tfle _Tibrary enjoyed two calls recently from Miss SnIthj, the former ltbrarif�np and it is our hope that she may be able to return next winter and help us with some of- the problems of discarding with which slfle is more familiar than anyone else could hope to be, budj;et. The Librt;rlan is working on t-he proposed budget with the present emphasis on capital expenditures. InventorX. The second inventory is now in progress and considerable time is beInG spent on the study of replacements of the books which have unfortunately been carried off. 'Newsnotes of the Juvenile Department. our for Story 10ur at the Lain Library has been changed from Tuesday afternoons at 4:00 to Friday after- noons at 3:30, 7arents suggested it was easier to come to town shopping that 7-afternoon. The hour has been Changed at the 1-:astan iVe :ranch Library from 4:00 Px, to 3:30 P.I.-. on Tuesday afternoons. The local papers and the Peninsula sections of the Sunday papers gave coverage to this notice. Liss Vlolbas'�y attended the rlonthly reetiny of the Association of Children's Librarians of. Northern C"lifornia at the 11 chrond i'ublic L7br.-ry, Ricbnond, California on P,:..rch 10, 1955. It was an all-day' meeting. The morning; was devoted to a movie and lecture by a teacher from the art department of the Ricrmond Publid Schools on rakinv; effective displays on posters and bulletin ::oards and cases. The after- noon pro47am was taken up by a discussion of the worth of puppet shows in librari� s. Several of the librarians told of their experiences with raking puppets and having; shorts. Some had t-he cb.ildren nalce their own puppets and ]rat on their own shotivs. )thers did the nu -pet making; and production % her.selves. All agreed it Inas a revardinG part of Stiry Telling to put !xippet shovis on once-in-aribile. The Ori:land Public Library's puppeteers nut on a puppet s?-,ow adapted from a story The ,•needle In Tho- .I3 stack by Farion Gnrthwaite, from The 3-in :.nteo County Library staff. R, iss '3 lbaslzy told of tie pun,^ot stake con- structed from a used refri. erator box which the bvrlin-are 'u:clic Lilfrary has for se in its puppet sly ows. C I ,C ULAT ? I�II' IA1 ..'RE►T1CII �- Adult nonfietion --r--w----------------- 49GO 1024 Child nonfiction w«-rr- -w--rr 1356 529 Adult fiction ------ -------- 5166 2003 Child fiction ----•-- ---------s 1629 3277 T )TAL :3 QKS CIRCULATED ]3,::11 44833 Feriad'cals ---------------------------- 877 550 I'I?ono3raph records ------------------ --- 97 TOTAL 3Tl,72 ITELS CI1 C TIATED �"- 974 5 117,0 T )T'AL CIRC JTA'--1 IN 149285 5 &,z GRAND T )TAL C IRC JLAT ISN 190668 1954 1955 Daily avera6e for train —M `M Daily avera-e for Branch 210 245 Combined daily avora.;e i,Le-,nD ,, .f.r�I:)TI An , Lombership February 1, 1955 ----------- 7260 23€34 9664 Additions in February --------- 229 58 287 TMM '� 701 Vithdrawals in February------------ 216 29 245 1'embership larch 2, 1955 -------------- 729Z AC.".:5"IOTIS ATT') `•:T'I'M RA'::ALS IT, .,,))K STOCK AiSD . A11� CA?iC-:L1 .�J TOTAL -OTAL Adult nonfiction --- 190 1 81 53,411 ITS nonfiction ------ 4 0 0 733 Ch;ld n,)nf is t ion---- 6 0 0 8,0838 Adult fiction------- 102 1 59 240678 IIS fiction --------- 5 0 1 29292 Child fiction ------ 6 0 5 8 240 (40 ,Ifts included in above addition) Net incroase of book stock 165 31 records added 47 pamphlets added 17 maps addod :JrIlI CITY i .'.16ASURER --- ;472.38 Train 57.52 Branch - 114086 CITY OF BURLINGAYE BUDGET 'XPEEDITURE L-0U LIBi �tiY i�„cnth cf March 1955 _ ACC"UY-� Thio Tt: Date Budget Budget rnor th Alleva. Balance S-1 Salaries3 37.44 $31.,409,57 444, 916-00 :, X13,506.43 1vi-11 supplies 56.96 467,30 900.00 432.70 ivl-12 Printing 23.05 703.91 600.00 ..103.91 IVI-13 Light, heat and 350.21 1384.53 21000'00 615.47 power iii-14 Telephone 27.33 226.49 360.00 133.51 L M-'16 Bldg. -Grnd.s. 30.00 221.25 1,500'00 1278.75 Maint. Y..-17 Bcoks and. maps 669.64 7560.4.8 9, 500.00 1939.52 ,,,,-17A Periodicals .20 596.4.3 700.00 103.57 m-17B Binding 67.25 1774.30 2,200. 00 42.5 .70 hit-19 Conventi.cn expense 117.00 125. 00 200 Ivi-19A Aute allowance 2.64 68.45 115. 00 46.55 41 302,00 Contract 30200 1645.20 2.9 00 554.80 0-90 Capital Expend. _ 719.10 1,07u.00 350,90 Total before salaries 1,529,28 15,48¢.44 50785.56 TuTAL `66, 186.u0 Total after salaries 5166.72 46,894.0119,291.99