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Board of Trustees Agenda A _
October 16, 2012—5.30pm �e P
480 Primrose Road—Library Conference Room
SUGGESTED ACTION
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. ROLL CALL
III. Library Board of Trustee Minutes for September 18, 2012 Approval
IV. CORRESPONDENCE AND INFORMATION Information
A. Library Statistics for September 2012
V. From The Floor (Public Comments)
VI. REPORTS
A. City Librarian's Report—Harding Information/Discussion
B. Foundation Report
VII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
A. Capital Campaign Task Force Committee Report Discussion
B. Trustee Project - Living History (Towle)
C. Trustee Project - Newcomer's Report (Lisa Rosenthal)
D. Millennium Project
E. Select Two Trustees to Oversee the Employee
Achievement Awards
VIII. NEW BUSINESS
IX. ANNOUNCEMENTS
X. ADJOURNMENT Adjourn
Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the Library Board of
Trustees regarding any item on this agenda will be made available for
public inspection at the Reference Desk of the Burlingame Public Library,
480 Primrose Road, Burlingame, California
BURUNOAME
Library Board of Trustees Minutes
September 18, 2012
I. Call to Order
President Corcoran called the meeting to order at 5:30pm.
II. Roll Call
Trustees Present: Betsy Corcoran, Deborah Griffith,
Lisa Rosenthal, Sandy Towle
Trustee Absent: Katie McCormack
Staff Present: Pat Harding, City Librarian
Sidney Poland, Recorder
III. Library Board of Trustees August 21, 2012. Minutes
The August 21, 2012 minutes were approved as written.
M/S/C (Rosenthal/Griffith)
IV. Correspondence and Information _
A. Library Circulation August Statistics - Easton Branch/Main
Circulation statistics for August show a 2.51% increase at the Main and a -
3.45% decrease at Easton from August 2011.
V. Reports
A. City Librarian's-Report Highlights
1. Personnel- Geralyn will be honored for 20 years of service to the City of
Burlingame at the Employee Service Award Luncheon. The Trustees hosted
a staff luncheon to honor Maryam Refahi, staff artist, for her 44 Public
Relations awards during her tenure at the library
2. Automated Materials Handling System (AMHS) 3M was selected by
PLS as the vendor for the AMHS. Pat reviewed the drawings for the layout
of the system with the Trustees. Trustee Corcoran suggested that the
expected decrease in staff injuries due to the AMHS should be tracked and
reported to the City Council.
3. Thin,Client - City Council approved the resolution allocating $71,000
for the project.
4. Bandwidth - a PLS task force has met to formulate a--plan to assess
concerns with the current bandwidth being too slow to handle the volume of
usage caused by technology products and programs. The committee will
look for current solutions, as well as develop plans for the future.
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B. Foundation Report
After a successful "Behind the Scenes" event, the Foundation will turn its
attention to the-October book sale to'be field from October 18th to October
21 st. The book sale will be followed by the Children's Tea scheduled for
December 2nd.
VI. Unfinished Business
A. Capital Campaign Task Force Committee Report
Pat Nicholson has been recruited by the Foundation to be Chairperson of
the Capital Campaign.
B. Trustee Project - Living History-.Sandy Towle
1. Trustee Towle will work with Reference Librarian, Brad McCulley, on the
Living History Project. Brad McCulley has applied for an Eureka Grant
based on the Living History format. Brad and Sandy have spoken with
members of the Historical Society and they are supportive of the project and
already have a list of possible candidates,to be interviewed.
2. Edward Anders will be the subject of the first Living History program to
be held October 15th in the Lane Room. Mr. Anders will relate his
experiences as a young child in Latvia during the Holocost. Trustee Towle
will oversee the filming of the event.
C. Trustee Project - Newcomer's Report - Lisa Rosenthal
The Trustees made'suggestions to the draft letter which will be included the
newcomer's packet. In this letter, newcomers to the City of Burlingame
and Town of Hillsborough will be advised of library services and programs.
D. Millennium Project
Pat Harding gave the Trustees a packet with the recent architectural
drawings and photos of Library furnishings as it is now and examples of how
it might look after the Millennium project is completed. It was suggested that
for the teen room the Walnut Creek model, which had some computer
counters with stools, might be considered. The Project Management Team
will meet on October 2nd to focus on the relocation of departments on the
upper level.
VII. Adiournment
The meeting was adjourned at 6:35pm. (M/S/C Griffith/Towle)The next
meeting of the Library Board of Trustees will be held October 1�th at
5:30pm in the Library Conference Room.
Respectfully Submitted,
Patricia Harding
City Librarian
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