LINCOLN CARNEGIE LIBRARY BOARD OF
TRUSTEES
JULY 14, 2015
Members
Present: Kathy Moss, Patrisha Street,
Karen Jeffers, Terry Broberg, Lynne Metz
Librarians
Present: Nancy Jensen
Kathy opened
the meeting. Patrisha moved that the
June 9 minutes be approved. Terry
seconded the motion. The motion
carried.
The
Children’s Department report was summarized.
There was excellent attendance (132) for the summer library program
which will end July 31. Over 50 kids
attended the final program at the park which recognized our hometown heroes
(police, fire and ambulance personnel).
$575 was raised from local businesses in cash donations and prizes and
all thank you notes have been sent. The
Teen Advisory board has been very helpful and have decided to enter the Post
Rock Festival with a Cupcake Wars event.
They will meet every other month and will elect officers on August 10
and have decided to keep the number of members on the board to a maximum of
25. Mary would like to change the
afterschool LEAP program to twice a month instead of every week.
Nancy
presented her report. The Adult and Teen
summer program has seen 36 teens and 45 adults and the “ blind date with a book”
idea went over very well. The toilet was filling slowly, but Mr. Hayworth fixed
it. Nancy has been looking for a special
way to use the $980 memorial for Don Meili.
One idea is a mobile pyramid book display that would be replace the
bookshelves at the doorway. She presented a Materials Donation Policy after
researching other libraries policies.
People often want to drop off old, unusable books to clean out a house,
etc. This policy designates that books,
DVDs, audio books and video games will be accepted with the understanding that
the library assumes the right of disposal and/or use and nothing would be
returned to the donor. She would like to
be relieved of the watering duties, as some areas are flooding and others are
not getting water .
Nancy
presented the Policy Changes covering Library Cards and Overdue Items. Children, 10-13 can get a Juvenile Library
Card with a parent’s signature, but may only check out one book or DVD at a
time, no games. Teens, 14 yrs, can get an adult library card with photo
ID. New Patrons will have a probation
period of 4 months. The Overdue Policy
includes: e-mail or mail overdue notices
sent at 1 and 2 weeks without any penalty.
At 3 weeks the account will be suspended and the patron cannot renew the
item. At 4 weeks overdue, the account is suspended and the only way to be
reinstated is to return all of the items or pay for them. At 8 weeks overdue,
we consider the items to be lost and must be paid for and your account will be
permanently restricted. Patrons will be
charged for lost and damaged items as written in the policy. Karen moved to
accept the Policy changes regarding Library Cards and Handling Overdue
Items. Terry seconded the motion. The motion carried.
Lynne moved
to approve the monthly bills. Karen seconded the motion. Motion carried. Lynne moved to accept the Materials Donation
Policy. Patrisha seconded the
motion. Motion carried. No action was taken on the Mobile Pyramid
Book Display. Nancy brought up that the
watering of the landscaping was becoming a problem since the hoses weren’t
working efficiently. Terry suggested
talking to Mindy Lewick about suggestions or possibly taking over the job and
asking FLCL to finance the pay. The
stone work is not quite completed and Terry will call the mason to finish the
project. In regard to the LEAP program,
all agreed that twice a month was fine instead of every week.
The Board
policy regarding attendance was reviewed:
any board member missing two consecutive meetings without an acceptable
reason will be considered uninterested in Board matters and will be expected to
resign. Attendance is important since we
need a quorum of 5 to conduct business, but all have outside obligations that
may conflict. No change was made to the
policy.
Patrisha
moved to adjourn the meeting. Karen
seconded the motion. The meeting is
adjourned until August 11 at 5:15pm.
Respectfully
submitted,
Lynne Metz,
secretary
