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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1989-10-09 MinutesBoard of Trustees Meeting Fayetteville Public Library October 9, 1989 Present: Board Members Bobbye Hay, Charles Kirchen, Foster Park,, Carol Phillips; Library Director Linda Harrison; Ozarks Regional Director Karen Duree; Fayetteville staff member June Jefferson President Bobbye Hay called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. The minutes for the regular September 11 meeting and the earlier executive session on September 11 were approved as circulated. Library Director Harrison reported briefly on the Statistical and Financial reports for September, noting particularly that total circulation for the month and for the year as a whole surpasses that for 1988, although new registrations' are a bit behind 1988. No response has yet been received from the City regarding the proposed 1990 Library budget. Director Harrison announced the annual Arkansas Library Association meeting in Little Rock, November 5-7. At least two staff members from Fayetteville will attend. Ms. Harrison also spoke briefly about the September 20th trustees workshop in Little Rock. Board members Bobbye Hay and Foster Park and Ozarks Regional Director Karen Duree, who also attended the Trustees workshop, agreed that it had been a highly successful and informative meeting. (Board Member Camilla Crouch also attended the workshop.) President Hay reported on telephone conversations she had with City of Fayetteville administrators on October 3 about the Medark Building purchase. The Request for Qualifications (for interior changes and remodeling) is to appear as a newspaper advertisement on October 11, with a deadline of October 27 for submissions. The City has not yet completed purchase of the Medark Building but will presumably do so by the end of the year. The Board then turned to a discussion of the Ozarks Regional Library Policy Manual, adopted June 30, 1989, and to possible modifications for the Fayetteville Public Library. It was agree& that we need to work up a complete policy manual of our own. The Board particularly approved (by a vote of 2-1) Library Director Harrison's request that item 3 (the need for a spous_edi name for library registration) on Code GB be omitted from Fayetteville policy. The Board also approved the following changes in the Ozarks Regional policy as it applies to the Fayetteville Library: Code GC Item 1 Although items are normally loaned for 21 days, a 7 -day loan period exists for audio -visuals, magazines, vertical file materials and new adult fiction with less than boo pages. Code GC Item 5 A page (attached) of exceptions Page 2 Minutes of October 9, 1989 Code GD: Substitutes No library materials will be renewed. Code: GF Item 1 Substitute: Fines are 5 cents a day per item. Fines for videos are $1.00 per day. Code GF Item f Substitute: The cost of replacement library cards will he 65 cents. President Hay noted that in other sections of the Ozarks Regional manual there may be problems for Fayetteville Library. It was agreed that the Fayetteville Board needs to formulate a policy on materials selection particularly. There are possible legal problems in Code JB (Patron Responsibilities). Fayettdville staff is still working on Code JC (Patron Library Behavior) but we can go by the Ozarks manual for now. The meeting was adjourned at 5:10 p.m. Respectfulljyaubmitted, Foster Park, Secretary