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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1948-02-09 MinutesMinutes of the-ibrliry Eoard 1 110ebruary 9,1948 '1'Cle i,ibrary DoarJ Field its regular monthly aleeting on !February 9 at 7:00_,p.m, tit the Ll brary,iciT'. <:C:ir=Jrt e1' presiding. ;:iembers present;tujr.mc'': ;no rt or, iii so Vaulx,,`irs. 5wart8,1Jire.i(i Chard Son, illi"s.VillCeritleller,irlr.!iT'eeTl}laVd,t�T1Cl i.�r.iVlCl�allerl. Erie minutes of the January meetings viere read sulci approved. the report of the Librarian for January showed a total circulation' of 2490,an increase of 805 over the preceecing month.?or Januragy 1947 the total circulation was 1893.The increased circulation_ for January was largely in the field of fiction. It was voted to approve the Librarian's recommendation that duplicate books be sent to t -a the Veteran's Village on an indefinite loan basis. It was voted to approve the i,ibrarian's suggestion to subscribe to the Arkansas :.atette for a short period.A three month'.,, subscription was author- ized. 'fhp 't'reasurer's report shouted a balance of �,y1280.56 in the First nation- al Bank. It was voted to appropriate the sum of X200 from surplus funds of last year to add to the budget iters of $1000 for books for the current year. It was voted that the appropriation of :50 made for books for t,incoln School at the January meeting of the Lord. be taken from last ,year's surplus. It was voted to approve an order for magazines,a.mounting to w120. It was voted to approve the budget for the current year as presented by the Budget Committee. The chairmen_ announced the appointment of committees for the present year as follows: budget Committee: lairs. Vincerinell.er tr.Butler Book Comernittee: !%iss Vaulx tvrs.Richardson irir.i+,cl:iillen Adjourned. ` House Committee> Mr.Greenhaw Mr. Blossom t:•ir enders Publicity Corv-aittee. Air s . Swart z i;ir•.Mieri%vether 0 Llci:iillen,Secretany The circulation increased over 300 during January over any month in 1947. It increased almost 800 over December of 1947. I believe 1 can see an increase in leisure readers in the after- noons also. We have completed the re -arranging of the Library now, ahe arrangement as it now is has been commented upon very favorably by the patrons. The radiators were changed, and we do have. much more room. The lighting situation has been greatly improved also. our next project is to start a card catalog. We will start reading the shelves this week. As soon as we have completed our inventory, we will order catalog cards. Mrs. Lewis "'ebster Jones called my attention to the steps this week. She commented that they were very dangerous and suggested that this matter be attended to soon before someone is hurt. Others too have suggested that they be mended. Patricia Roers suggested recently that she will have to stay within the ,p500 a year bracket in order that her father may still list her as a dependent on his income tax returns. It will probably mean that she will have to stop working for about two months this summer. She does plan to take a trip to Mexico this summer with a college club, but she does not know yet just when this will be. The readers of the Saturday Evening Post are very pleased that we now have a subscription for it. / About a month ago some lady gave us six or eight novels which V we already had copies of. I sent these to Veterans' Village on an indefinite loan by a responsible resident of the Village. She reports that they have been very much appreciated there, especially by the mothers of small children. If it is permissible I would like to continue this with other duplicate copies of books donated to the Library which we do not need here. / This set of books from the International Library of Music is a group of four books from a much larger set. The representative was here last month with the books. Two of them give the history' of music; one gives the history of operas; and the other gives the history of vocal music as well as some instruction in that field. Of the entire set I felt these would be the ones used the most, since the others are compositions for pianists and for violinists. The binding is of plastic and is very durable. Since I have had mapy calls for this type of work, I believe we should have it in the library. The set of four costs $23.85 if paid within twenty days of delivery. Several people have asked about a subscription to the Little Rock gazette. If we could subscribe to it for a short period, I could check to see if it would be wotthwhile to continue it. The Library is truly a bureau of information. This week Ine had a letter from California asking us to try to give them the address or any other information of one John 'Williams of Fayetteville. As yet we have not been able to find any informatioh about such a person. The new set of Americana is certainly being used. Almost every day I use it for reference questions to the satisfaction of the readers. The screen at the fire escape window needs repairing. If there were a fire T_'m afraid I couldn't do much with .the screen.