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Library Board of Trustees Minutes
October 18, 2011
I. Call to Order
President Towle called the meeting to order at 5:30prd.
II. Roll Call
Trustees Present: Betsy Corcoran, Deborah. Griffith,
Lisa Rosenthal, Sandy Towle
By Phone: Katie McCormack
Staff Present: Pat Harding, City Librarian
Sidney Poland, Recorder
III. Trustee Board Minutes August 16, 2011
The September 20, 2011 minutes were approved as written. ,
M/S/C (Rosenthal/Griffith)
IV. Correspondence and Information
A. Library Statistics Easton Branch/Main
1. For the month of September 2011, Easton circulation
increased 23.65%; the statistics at the main library
decreased -0.83%.
2. Trustee Towle suggested that Freegal be promoted in the school .
newspapers, the Burlingame Mother's Club newsletter and the
Burlingame Patch. Hopefully this message would reach a wider
audience and increase Freegal usage.
V. From the Floor (Public Comments)
No one from the public attended.
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VI. . Reports '1
A. Librarian's Report
1. Staff Recognition
Patti Flynn,and Jeff Mikulik were honored with Employee Service
Awards at the City's Service Award Luncheon. Patti has 30 years
of service and Jeff has 20.
2. New Children's Program - Book Buddies
In November, Fifteen trained high school students and fifteen
elementary school children will partner together to begin a new
reading enrichment program.
& Assembly Bill 438
Governor Brown signed AB438 into law on October 8th. This bill
"imposes requirements on a city or library that intends to withdraw
from a county free library system and operate libraries with a -
private contractor." Supporters felt the bill would protect jobs and
provide for more community input on whether to outsource library
services.
4. Children's Department
A Kindergarten library card drive is underway at Burlingame and
Hillsborough schools. A Library card drive for 4th, 6th and 9th
graders will start at the end of November. Requests for class visits
have increased and are scheduled every week in October and
November.
B. Class Visits
Class visits to the Library have increased due to the fact many
school librarians lost their positions due to budget reductions.
Therefore students are not being taught basic library research skills.
The Trustees discussed ways that the library could help these-
students.
hesestudents.
• Offer an occasional research class on Saturday i.e. scavenger
hunt.
• Target middle school students.
• Have conversation with school personnel to determine needs.
• The City Librarian-will discuss these ideas with Kathy von
Mayrhauser, Children's Librarian. Pat expressed some concern
that the Children's staff has a full schedule for this fiscal year.
s C. Foundation Report
Attendees at the Farmer's Market welcomed the Book sale; revenues
have averaged over $200 the last three times. Cara Black and Gary
Pomerantz are the featured authors for the Book and Author
Luncheon.
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VII. Unfinished Business
A. Millennium Update
Pat Harding met with Wayne Gehrke and Andrea Wills of Group 4.
Subjects discussed were as follows:
1. Review of questions from Escoffier Society Event.
2. Consider'option of placing materials handling system in
Circulation Room.
3. Move Foundation book store to area where materials handling
system is shown on the plan.
4. Create a new plan without a public back door entrance:
(Plan B) The meeting concluded with the agreement that
Wayne would prepare Plan A and Plan B, one of which would
include changes discussed above, to present to the Project -
Management Team, as well as Foundation and Library
Trustees.
B. Community Room Signage for-Library Programs on Bellevue Ave.
Jim Kaufman built a program sign holder to be placed outside the
Community Room to notice Library events held in the Lane Room.
C. Internet Archive
Internet Archive has agreed to take library books that have been
weeded from the collection for placement on their site.
VIII. New Business
A. Burlingame Library Internet Policy
The Reference Staff re-wrote the Library's Internet Policy and
requested that the Trustees review the content and approve the
changes. Changes to the policy are as follows:
1. Patron has computer access of 2 hours with Library card..
2. Patron has computer access of 1 hour without a Library card;
pass provided. (Passes are given, to out of state visitors and
patrons from different counties.)
The Reference Staff felt that by limiting computer access to 1 hour
without a card, patrons would be motivated.to bring their cards.
The Trustees unanimously approved the changes made by the Reference
Staff to the Library's Internet Policy. M/S/C (Rosenthal/Corcoran)
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IX. Announcements
The Trustees,discussed the Employee Achievement Awards dinner that
will be held January 22, 2012 at the Double Tree Hotel.
• President Towle requested that the event be placed on the
November 15th agenda for approval of the Nomination Letter.
• Trustees Rosenthal and McCormack will review the nomination.
letters for the employee awards. The full board will make the
selections.
• Nomination letters will be given to employees November 16th;
nominations will be due on December 3rd.
X. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 6:50pm. M/S/C/ the next meeting of the
Library Board of Trustees will be held November 15, 2011 at 5:30pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Patricia Hardin
City Librarian
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