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Area Library Board Minutes
Meeting Minutes
March 16, 2006
Kristi Smith,
the new Director of GRRL and Diane Vosen, the Fund Development Director, were
visiting libraries and stopped to introduce themselves to the Board today.
They complimented us on our great library.
Review
of the Agenda: MSP
(Denise, Joelle) to approve agenda.
Secretarys
Report: MSP (Denise,
Joelle) to accept the minutes.
Financial
Report - Mark reported
that the balance remains $2,560.10. MSP (Joelle, Denise) to accept the financial
report.
Librarians
Report: A new
assistant, Janice Fossum has been hired. She
will work Wednesday from 3:00 to 6:00 and every other Saturday.
Technology
Report: no report.
GRRL
Report: Joan reported
that she has been very busy interviewing for new assistant positions.
Also she explained that red dot books are new books or first time
purchased books. They were usually
shelved separately but Sandy has decided to integrate them with the rest. Joan
will be meeting with Sandy to discuss different open hour schedules.
Sandy feels that there should be hours available on Thursdays.
FOL
Report: Cindy e-mailed
a report that posters for the author event have been sent to the other branch
libraries. Some tickets and author
books have been sold. The next FOL
meeting will be April 11. Annandale
and Monticello are co-hosting a Friends workshop on April 22, from 9-13 at the
Monticello Library. Share Your
Successes will be one of the topics. Julie
reported on the Friends Meet Friends meeting, held in St. Cloud on Monday,
March 16. The Monticello friends
told how their group was started, their successes and problems.
Other friends shared similar stories.
Vern is setting up an e-mail advocacy group to contact legislators when
various library issues arise. (Entire
report available in secretarys book)
Art
Committee - Jill, Dawn,
Ed, and Ron
The Elwyn Nordberg
photography display has been hung and should be up for a couple of months.
Their next meeting is April 4.
Publicity
Committee - Cindy,
Karen, Ron, Bonnie, and Ed
Ron reported
that the first article for the Advocate will explain what the Library Board
does, what FOL are about and how much it costs to join, and that the library is
more than just booksits music, movies, special programs, and computer use.
The article will be a quarter page, appearing quarterly, starting April
4. The FOL group will pay for the first article.
Ideas for future articles may be sent to Karen.
Community
Survey Committee
Denise, Julie
Denise
reported that Joan has sent some examples of surveys that other libraries have
used. They will meet with Joan and
Sandy to re-assess the current open hours. Three
possible areas to be addressed in the survey could be open hour
schedulesasking people what they prefer, long range planning or goals and
adult/children programming. It will
be available this summer.
Programming-Dawn
The Saturday
programs meet the first Saturday on the month and have had 3-12 children
present. The quality of the leaders
has been excellent. The second
Saturday in May will be the last one. There was a small group for the
"Reading with your Beginning Reader", probably because it was Ash
Wednesday. Kits are coming from the
National Dear Organization for our drop everything and read program on
April 12. (Entire
report available in secretarys book)
Library
signage - Jill reported
that our application to request permission to put signs with the library symbol
on Hwy 55 for both eastbound and westbound traffic was denied by the District
Traffic Engineer. Jill will check
with the sign company and Mark will check with the Lions group to see if we can
put a library sign on the kiosk or near the memorial park.
Scrapbook
Jill, Joelle
Jill and
Joelle have taken inventory on items we have that could go into a library
scrapbook. Jill brought some
original articles about how 5 ladies from Improvement Club started a library
with 500 books. They recommended
starting with the current status and working back in history when they have the
time.
Next meeting
will be April 27 at 4:00. MSP (Denise/Jill) to adjourn.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Julie Sedey, Secretary