Annandale
Area Library Board
Meeting Minutes
September 15, 2005
*Members Present:
Ron Remington, Julie Sedey, Elizabeth Cabalka, Sally Smith, Denise
Safranek, Cindy Ahrens (FOL), Joan Allen (GRRL), Mark Casey (City)
*Review of Agenda:
Motion MSP (Jill, Julie) to approve agenda with addition of
Technology under Old Business.
*Secretarys Report:
Motion MSP (Denise,
Elizabeth
) to approve minutes.
*Library Financials:
Mark presented report with a balance of $2560.10.
Motion MSP (Jill, Sally) to approve report.
*Librarians Report:
No report.
*GRRL Report: Joan
reported that Bescye Burnett has resigned to become a pastor at Zimmerman
United Methodist church. A
restructuring process is in progress with 5 people instead of 2 supervising 32
libraries. Joan will still
supervise
Annandale
. The new youth service coordinator will supervise some libraries. The
possibility of hiring a branch assistant to work 10 hours per week with a
restructuring of hours was discussed. There
would be no additional open hours at this time.
A survey of hours need would help determine some restructuring of
open hours. This could be
accomplished using the newspaper, schools library, online and librarian input.
Possibly this survey could be completed in 2006 with a recommendation
for 2007. Motion MSP (Elizabeth,
Sally) to establish a committee to address the issue of potentially changing
open hours using a survey to be addressed in 2006.
A possible committee for this task could be Julie, Denise and Sandy.
The need for more publicity of library news in the newspaper was
discussed.
*Friends of the Library Report:
Cindy presented a report of the activities of the Friends.
She covered the book sale, 2006 Author dinner, volunteer opportunities,
2006 membership campaign, MLA conference, and the need for adult programming.
The 501c3 process may only cost $350-500 instead of the original
estimate of $1100.
*Old Business:
- Art
CommitteeJill reported that the committee met and brought Dawn and
Ed up to speed. The Grip Lock
system is still not installed but it should be taken care of this fall.
There is a need to catalog the collection and possibly sell some
items. Art shows are a future
possibility. Insurance
coverage of the art was discussed especially the on loan items such as the
HOLT originals. Ron will check
on that.
- Summer
ProgrammingThis was very successful with 50 children attending the
first June program, 42 at the 2nd June program, 38 and 40 at
the July programs and 50+ at the end of summer program.
In addition 15 to 18 adults were also in attendance at each
program. Key Club and/or
National Honor Society could use GRRL kits as their community service
project.
- Genealogy
classA beginning class is scheduled through Community Ed on 9/29 in
the H.S. computer lab.
- Nominating
CommitteeElizabeth, Sally, and Julie will find replacements for
Elizabeth and Sally and also draft a list of officers.
- TechnologyAn
additional internet computer is needed at the library.
The Improvement Club will probably purchase it.
Next meeting will be Thursday, October 27th at
4 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Sally Smith, Secretary
