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Library Board of Trustees Minutes
June 19, 2012
I. Call to Order
Trustee Towle called the meeting to order at 5:30pm.
II. Roll Call
Trustees Present: Betsy Corcoran, Deborah Griffith, Sandy Towle
Trustees Absent: Katie McCormack, Lisa Rosenthal
Staff Present: Pat Harding, City Librarian
Sidney Poland, Recorder
III. Library Board of Trustees May 22, 2012 Minutes
The May 22, 2012 minutes were approved as written.
M/S/C (Griffith/Corcoran)
IV. Correspondence and Information
Library Circulation Statistics - Easton Branch/Main
Circulation at the Main and Easton continues to show an increase over
2011 statistics to date. It is important to note that the decrease in registered
borrowers is due,to a patron purge which was completed May 18th. The
following patron records were deleted in the purge: 1) patron cards that
expired in 2007 or earlier; 2) patrons who had a zero balance and 3) patrons
who had not been sent to collection.
V. Reports
A. City Librarian's Report Highlights
1. Personnel - Circulation Department: Geralyn O'Brien has been
promoted to Library Assistant III, Raquel Metcalfe, a former BPL employee,
will fill in temporarily for Louella Angeles. Children's Department:
Michelle Gilchrist and Kelly Mackewicz have been hired to work on-call.
Reference Department: Dena Grover, Chris Gray, and John Piche have
been hired as on-call staff in adult reference. On June 20th, interviews for
a full time and a permanent part time Reference Librarian will be
conducted.
2. Discover & Go - Downloadable museum passes will soon be available to
patrons through the Discover 8s Go program being offered by nineteen
northern California public library systems. Each library in the network
will share the cost of implementing the product. Each library will have
its own museum passes.
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B. Library Foundation
Members of the Burlingame Library Task Force will have their first formal
�. meeting on June 28th to begin organizing the capital campaign for the
Millennium Project.
VI. Unfinished Business
A. Change of August Meeting Date
The Trustees decided to keep the regular scheduled August meeting date.
B. Recognition Event for Staff Member
Pat Harding will work with the Children's staff to determine a date for this
event.
VII. New Business
A. Employee Appreciation Funding
The Trustees approved the City Librarian's request to provide $4,250 from the
copier monies to fund staff appreciation needs such as anniversary gift
cards, appreciation dinner, retirement lunches and other special events.
B. Nomination and Election of Officers for 2012-2013.
Trustee Corcoran was nominated and elected to serve as President and Lisa
Rosenthal was nominated and elected to serve as Secretary of the Library
Board of Trustees for the term beginning June 30, 2012 to June 30, 2013.
M/S/C (Towle/Griffith)
VIII. Announcements
Trustee Corcoran made the following recommendations:
�. • Contact David Chu and David Eger with regards to participating on the
Millennium Task Force Committee.
•. Suggest new names for Millennium Project.
• Library should consider'putting together a "welcome" package for new
businesses and residents.
IX. Adiournment
The meeting was adjourned at 6:30pm. The next meeting of the Library Board
of Trustees will be held July 17th at 5:30pm in the Library Conference Room.
-Respectfully Submitted,
Patricia Harding
City,Librarian
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