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•'�URLINGAME UBLIC LIBRARY '.'Board of Trustees Agenda
February 23, 2016—5.30pm480 Primrose Road—Library Conference Room
SUGGESTED ACTION
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. ROLL CALL
III. Library Board of Trustee Minutes for January 19, 2016 Approval
IV. Correspondence and Information
A. Library Statistics January 19, 2016 Information
B. Library Trustees Account Information
V. From The Floor (Public Comments)
VI. REPORTS
A. City Librarian's Report—McCulley Information/Discussion
B. Foundation Report Information/Discussion
XVII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
A. Strategic Plan Facilitator Discussion Information/Discussion
(Ann Marie Gold,Jane Light,Tish Busselle) Information/Discussion
B. Possible Removal of Children's and Teen Fines
C .Librarian Scholarship Information/Discussion
D. Patron Behavior- Update Information/Discussion
E. Passport Entry Update Information/Discussion
F. Cafe Update Information/Discussion
G. Employee Recognition Event Information/Discussion
VIII. NEW BUSINESS
A. Safety Procedures in the Library Information/Discussion
B. Analytics on Demand Database Discussion/Action
IX. ANNOUNCEMENTS Discussion
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,
�r0 Primrose Road, Burlingame, California
BURL i NOAME
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Library Board of Trustee Minutes
January 19, 2016
I. Call to Order
President Nagler called the meeting to order at 5:30PM.
II. Roll Call
Trustees Present: Kerbey Altmann, Debra Donaldson, Mike Nagler, Lisa
Rosenthal
Trustee Absent: Randi Murray
Staff Present: Brad McCulley, City Librarian
Sidney Poland, Recorder
III. Library Board of Trustee Minutes
The November 17, 2015 Board of Trustee minutes were unanimously approved.
M/S/C (Nagler/Rosenthal)
IV. Correspondence and Information
A. Statistics
Circulation statistics continued to increase in November and December of
2015 both at the main and.Easton. Circulation at the main increased by
10% from November 2014 and 6.74% from December of 2014. Easton
circulation showed an improvement of 13.65% from November of 2014 and
9.89% from December of 2014.
V. Reports
A. City Librarian's Report- Highlights
1. Personnel - Geralyn OBrien is the new Circulation Manager; Megan
Wong has accepted the position of Technical Services Manager.
Recruitments for two full time Reference Librarians and a Page
Supervisor are in progress. -
2. Cafe Update -The cafe passed the inspection conducted by the Health
Department which will permit the cafe to-open immediately.
3. Security Camera Update -The project is nearly completed with
cameras being installed throughout the library, as well as the parking
garage.
4. Love Your Library - Plans are in full swing for the February 5th event
There will be a variety of events for all ages. Crafts for children, face
painting, games, a jazz band and of course, cookies and tea sandwiches
will be a part of the gala event.
B. Foundation Report
The Foundation is now preparing for this year's Book and Author Event
which will be held at the Green Hills Country Club. Janice Scattini and
Noreen West will be the co-chairs for the event.
480 Primrose koad•Burlingame•California 94010-4083
Phone(650)558-7474•Fax(650)342-6295'www.burlingame.org/library
VI. Unfinished Business
A. Cafe Update
1. Coupons for Library Staff- The Trustees passed a motion to allocate
funds in the amount of$300 from the copier fund to provide coupons for
full time and 18 hour_staff to use at FIKA, the Library's new Cafe. M/S/C
(Rosenthal/Altmann) Brad will check with the City Finance Department to
ascertain if the coupon request is workable from an accounting stand
point.
2. Tables for Cafe and Misc.
• Brad is looking into purchasing 2 more tables for cafe patrons.
• Trustees requested that lids be put on coffee cups.
• Suggestion was made to have sponges available in the cafe to wipe
up accidentally spilled beverages.
B. Employee Recognition Event
All arrangements have been made for the event. There will be approximately
80 attendees.
C. Library Holiday Schedule
The Trustees unanimously approved the Library Holiday Schedule
submitted by the City Librarian, Brad McCulley.
M/S/C (Altmann/Donaldson)
D. Librarian Scholarship
• Lisa Goldman, City Manager, advised Brad that she supported the
-idea of a LibrarianScholarship. The project should be funded by the
Library Trustees.
• Brad will contact the City Attorney, Kathleen Kane, to determine if
there are any legal issues or criteria that the Trustees would have to
,follow in initiating a scholarship program.
• The Trustees decided to use the term Professional Development rather
than Librarian Scholarship.
E. Strategic Plan
The Strategic Plan has been delayed until May or June of 2016. Lisa
Goldman wants this project to be funded by the City rather than the
Trustees. The funds will be disbursed from the Library budget.
The Trustees requested that Brad advise Tish Busselle and Jane Light of
the date change for starting the Strategic Plan.
VII. New Business
A. Review of Patron Behavior
1. Inappropriate Behavior-The Trustees reviewed the facts relating to the
inappropriate behavior of Kevin.Cotchett and Mr. Churchill on the Library
premises presented by Brad McCulley, City Librarian.
2. Trustee Action - The Trustees passed a motion authorizing Brad
McCulley to prepare warning letters for Mr. Cochett and Mr. Churchill
stating specific incidents of their inappropriate behavior and noting that
if this behavior continues they will be subject to being banned from the
Library for a specified period of time. M/S/C (Rosenthal/Altmann)
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3. Procedure - The official warning letters for Mr. Cotchett and Mr.
Churchill will be placed at the Information Desk and be hand delivered to
each of them when they visit the Library by Brad McCulley.
B. Passport Entry Removable of Children and Teen Fines
• Brad has contacted PLS Library Directors to try and ascertain who is and
who is not supporting the plan to discontinue children and teen fines
and also to obtain a reliable figure of the total fines that are paid for
children's and teen fines.
• Initiating the Passport Entry service at the Library would replace funds
lost from children and teen fines.
• Lisa Goldman has approved the Passport Entry service at the Libray and
.,Brad is moving forward to implement it.-
• Some of the Trustees felt that paying fines teaches responsibility.
• Brad explained that children/teens would still bear the responsibility if
they lose or damage a book,-video etc.
C. Retirement Gift Request
The Trustees approved Brad's request to use funds from the Trustees'
copier fund account to pay for Barry and Amy's retirement parties.
M/S/C (Altmann/Rosenthal)
VIII. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 7:OOfM. MSC (Nagler/Altmann) The next
meeting of the Library Board of Trustees will be held February 16, 2016 in the
Library.Conference Room. (Meeting subsequently changed to February 23rd due
to a scheduling conflict.)
Respectf bmitted,
Brad McCulley
City Librarian ,
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BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS
Month: 01
*Burlingame Registered
Borrowers Burlingame Hillsborough Other77 I
Total
Adult Patrons 13,878 2,110 01 15,988
Juvenile Patrons 5,269 1,136 0 6,405
Others 181 8 1,27 F 1,461
19,328 I 3,254 F 1,272 23,854
Circulation Total Circulation Previous Year Percent Change
Main 52,594 40,290 30.549/6
Easton 8,126 7,885 3.06%
Total 60,720 48,175 26.04
E-Content/Total Downloads or Sessions E-Content/Total Downloads or Sessions
Overdrive: a-books 1,658 audio a books 630 Safari: 143 readable df
Enki-e-books 99
Fli ster Online Magazines 101 (magazine checkouts
On-Line Resources
Databases I910
BPL Website 11 11,839
Discover and Go downloadable museum asses 36 reservations
Self Check Usage Total Items Percent of Initial Check Outs
Main 27,415 82%
Branch 2,527 65%
Total 29,942
Online Renewals Total Items Percent of Total Renewals
Main 14,827 81%
Branch 1,851 75o/a
Total 16,678
Gate Count Monthly Average per day
Main 24,897 829
Branch 4,434 202
Bellevue Entrance 190 7
Total
Internet Usage Total User Sessions
Main Adult 2,529
Main Childrens' 502
Branch 270
Graad Total 3,301
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BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS
Month: January 2016
Total Items Added to Collection (Main & Branch) 1,270
Total Number Outreach Materials Delivered IF 13
Community Room Usage Number of Meetings Attendance
47
City Meetings Program - Env. Council/City Goal 2
Settin
Library Meetings- PLS Info/ 1 20
Great Books 1 12
Piano Recital 1 40
National Charity League 1 50
Girls Who Code 3 90
Adult Programs
Adult Coloring1 32
Road Scholar - Educational Travel 1 9
Library Talks - Scandinavian Literature 1 20
Total Meetings and Programs12 259
Conference Room
Library Staff Meetings Interviews (all day) 1 5
Foundation Meetings 1 5
Neighborhood Network 1 g
Home Owner's Association (Al Escoffier) 1 11
Total Events 4 29
Upper Level Meeting Room Statistics
Library Staff Meetings 6 32
RecycleWorks Volunteer Academy 2 60
San Mateo Office of Education 1 11
Small Business Series 3 21
Total 12 124
Study Room Statistics
Study Room A Study Room B — Study Room C Study Room D Total
Sessions 83 40 73 73 269
Patrons 258 126 181 189 754
TechLab
Patrons 254
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BURLINGAME PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS
Month: January 2016
Children's and Young Adult Programs--Main
Number Attendance
Story Times
Preschool Story Times 4 224
Toddler Story Times 8 606
Baby Story Time 4 341
Total Story Times 16 1,171
Class Visits
Elementary Class Visits at 8 227
Library
Elementary Class Visits at 0 0
School
Special Programs for Children
Parent & Child Book Club 1 27
Mock Newbery 1 10
Poetry and Cookies 1 102
Maker Preschool Drive-In 1 80
Sizzling Science 1 25
Legos 1 85
Mandarin Story Time 1 30
Total 6 359
Special Programs For
Teens
Teen Advisory 1 11
Homework Buddies 1 6
Training
SAT 1 18
Emory Lord Author Event 1 14
Total 4 49
Easton Story Times & Special Piogrami
Number Attendance
"' Attendance
Story Times
Preschool Story Times 4 83
Toddler Story Times 4 283
Total 8 366
Class Visits 6 221
Special Programs
Winter ReadingProgram 84
Poetry Month 1 181
Total Children's Pro rams Sessions Attendance
52 2,658
Total Adult Programs 19 122
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Library Trustees Account
January 31, 2016
Account No. Description Balance
5300 Centennial Ornaments $1,663.40
5310 Undesignated Donations $1,207.22
5320 Copier Fund $11,625.55
5330 Donations-Children's $176.29
5340 Duncan Collection $58,526.32
5350 Education Fund $8,507.91
5360 Farrel (Julia) Fund $8,250.64
5370 Staff Appreciation $3,907.71
5380 Volunteer Recognition $1,989.65
5390 Willert (Wayne) Fund $42,117.72
5392 Millenium Project -$14,071.88
Total $123,900.53
City Librarian Report to Board of Trustees
NN., February 23rd, 2016
Personnel:
• Congratulations to Ray De Lara recently promoted to Page Supervisor
• Congratulations to Cynthia Rider our new F/T Adult Services Librarian— Cynthia comes to us
from San Mateo County Library and we are overjoyed to have her
• We are still recruiting for one F/T librarian and a F/T IT Library Assistant to replace Ray
News:
• Cafk update: Ghada is doing great so far—everyone loves her food and she is very personable
—she is in the process of being added to the Finance Dept list of vendors so we will be able to
cut her a check for $300 soon and hand out coffee vouchers to staff. She has requested to be
closed on Sundays.
• Employee Appreciation Brunch at Sixtos last month—the food was great,
the mimosas were tasty and it was good clean fun for staff to be rubbing elbows with the
Foundation and Trustees! Thanks for the honor of letting us highlight our achievements for the
year in such gracious atmosphere.
• "Love Your Library" was a resounding success with about 400 attendees! So many things to
see and do! Whether you were volunteering, attending, donating baked goods, or helped raise
money this year to pay for this (which is everyone) I thank you and Staff thanks you from the
bottom of our hearts. As is true with most of our programming here at BPL, we couldn't do it
�-- without you!
• Poetry Month was an enormous success! Children's librarians really enjoyed seeing so many
students at the library in January. We had a record-breaking 566 poems written for the contest
and each poet received a paperback book of poetry for their home book collection. The Big
Penguin grand prizes go to: 1 st place - McKinley School and 2nd place - Roosevelt School
• Food For Fines: Tommy spearheaded our FFF project (our first year) with $4,095 fines
cleared from Main and Easton and 1,669 lbs of can goods donated!
• Congratulations to Kim Day! she has been accepted into the CA State Library's Library
Leadership program, beginning in March, through a competitive process from a pool of
librarians chosen from the whole state of California.
Marketing Update:
• Our Social Media- Marketing Team met to discuss some issues (see minutes below) and to
get back into the "marketing groove"
• Spenser Thompson—Wiccans believe if you put forth good energy into the world you get it
back three-fold... so BPL must be doing something right— Spenser came to us looking for a
place to volunteer his services as a librarian-in-between-jobs Senior Marketing Specialist from
a major software company... and we plan on taking full advantage of his skills!! More to
follow.
Safety Update:
• We are working with City Facilities and Bay Alarm to have panic-buttons installed at all three service
desks in the building, as well as, Police Chief Wollman to have an "Active Shooter" simulation with
his officers.
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• By today's date we should have our new security camera system up and running—with cameras in all
study rooms, throughout the building, and the both upper and lower parking lot areas.
Marketing Meeting Minutes
January 27. 20]6
In attendance: Ray, Tommy, Kelly, Maryam, Brad, Kim, Jeff, Andrea, Megan
MARKETING 101. Discuss ways we can market library
• Social media. Engage more community members
• Gift cards in books
LIBRARIES TRANSFORM. Action items to quickly launch Libraries Transform campaign.
• Display
o Put a tree up on butcher paper on the column, patrons write ideas on leaves and affix to tree
o Blank Libraries Transform posters on column w/ stickies
• Take photos of display and post to social media
• ETA: End of February
FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM ADS. Promote library service or event for initial round of social media ads.
• We have FB ad credit gifted to us by a FB employee
• Ray to visit FB HQ and get direction on ads. Will come w/content ready
• Start with Love Your Library event
SF MDMA. How can we partner w/ SFMOMA?
• MOMA employee contacted Ray asking for help w/their IG account. Ray to visit MOMA and inquire
about ways we can partner
• Interactive exhibit
• Discover & Go (hold)
• iPad in MOMA w/rotating BPL photos, e.g. Bookface
• Pop-up gallery
INSTAGRAM. How will we run after Ray's departure?
• All Marketing Team will contribute content. No pressure to submit. Should be when you feel compelled.
• All will send content to Tommy to post
• Tommy will consult Ray as-needed
• Ray has photos for group to pull from in shared drive
• Ray will post until 2/8
• Takeovers: TAB, Sit and Stitch
ACTION ITEMS
• Brad, ask City Attorney about following businesses and followers on IG
• Brad, give Ray gift cards
• Jeff, look into adding "follow us" on IG on receipts
• Kelly & Maryam, work on creating tree and leaves (possibly include Sharon)
• Ray, Libraries Transform posters on marquee
• Tommy& Maryam, work on Libraries Transform posters
• Ray, create instructions for creating videos
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EVENTS AT THE LIBRARY • FEBRUARY 1 - 29 • 2016
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