ANNANDALE AREA LIBRARY BOARD
Meeting Minutes
May 16th, 2013
4 :00 p.m. - City Hall
Members Present:
Jill Healy, Carla Asfeld, Cheryl Olson, Brandi Canter, Barb Reitmeier,
Sally Smith, Mary Iverson, Bonnie Gutzwiller, Mindy Holahan, Kelly Hinnenkamp
Introductions:
Welcomed new member Mindy Holahan
Review of Agenda:
No additions
Secretary’s Report: Minutes from May 17 th, 2012 read and accepted as published. (MSP Sally, Mindy)
City Report: Kelly asked the Board to let her know
if they have any concerns, please e-mail her at
khinnenkamp@annandale.mn.us.
Discussed the upcoming FOL book sale and the use of the Senior Dining
area.
Friends of the Library Report: Bonnie reported that
this year’s Author Dinner featuring David Housewright will be held Friday night
the 17th, with 72 tickets sold.
Sorting for the Book Sale will begin Tuesday June 4th
at 9am, and continue Tuesday mornings during the month of June.
Set up for the book sale will be Friday June 28th beginning at
1:00 pm, and the sale will be Saturday the 29th from 8-noon.
The next FOL meeting will be Tuesday June 11th
at 7pm.
Sally reported that although the book has not been chosen,
the FOL will host another community read in October.
Sally will present Storytimes again this July on Wednesdays
at Knollwood and South Haven
providing a snack, a craft and a free
book. She will also present
Storytime at the Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings.
Sally will again head up the Bike Giveaway at Bendix in
February for grades 1-6 sponsored by the FOL.
Librarian’s Report:
Carla distributed “Library Year in Review” which highlighted last
year’s Summer Reading Program, Legacy Programming, Free Ticket Program, the
Minnesota Zoo, and the Winter Reading Program “Escape into Reading”.
Carla also submitted a calendar of
Summer Events.
- 2013 Summer
Reading Program:
‘Dig Into Reading’ for children and
‘Beneath the Surface’ for teens, which run from June 10th
to August 10th.
Lonnie Davis will present the six storytimes this summer.
-
FOL purchased a book cart to store
Big Books in the children’s area.
- Staff Update:
Jolene Forsberg resigned as
branch
assistant for Annandale and Kimball,
and Lonnie Davis took over in November.
- Mic
Golden retired after 30 years with GRRL.
Jacob Grussing has been hired as the new Collection Development
Coordinator.
-
Connie Kuehn Memorial:
Memorial gifts will be used to purchase another stained glass window in
the children’s area.
-
March High $5: The region collected
$15,046. Annandale collected $242,
and $96.80 will be deposited into the Annandale
Gift
Fund at GRRL.
- Brandi Canter:
The proposed budget will be presented to the Great River Board of
Trustee’s late May and the amended version will be presented in July.
Library Legacy Funding is in danger and may be reduced by 2/3 per Senator
Cohen and will reduce the amount each branch receives by $1000.
She asked that we contact our Senator to support the House’s more
generous budget, and get great art to every library.
Brandi
presented the “Read Down Your Fines
Program”. This program will give
children and teens with fines on their library cards an opportunity to pay off
those fines by reading at the library.
We discussed if and how the FOL and Improvement
Brandi also
spoke to fundraising. The Library’s
Support the Library page includes a “Donate Now” online donation process.
New
Business:
Proposed
slate of officers for 2014:
Jill Healy, President
Jill and Barb will be searching for a new board
member to replace Bonnie Gutzwiller.
The 2014 meeting is scheduled for May 1st
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned
at 4:45 pm
Bonnie Gutzwiller