HomeMy WebLinkAbout1991-03-11 MinutesBoard of Trustees Meeting
Fayetteville Public Library
March 11, 1991
Present: Board Members Camilla Crouch, Charles Kirchen, Foster Park, Carol
Phillips; Library Director Linda Harrison; Ozarks Regional Library Director Karen
Duree; Fayetteville Library Staff members Glenda Brooks, June Jefferson, and
Marian Neralich
Vice President Camilla Crouch called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. The
minutes for the regular February 11 meeting were approved as circulated.
Library Director Harrison briefly discussed the Statistical and Financial reports
for February, noting that both circulation and volunteer hours were up a bit.
Ms. Harrison raised the question how patron reimbursement money for damaged audio
cassettes should be used for replacements. After brief discussion, a motion by
Carol Phillips, seconded by Foster Park, to approve immediate use of
reimbursement money for necessary replacements (with accounting procedures to
be worked out) was approved unanimously.
After some discussion of money not spent in 1990 for updating computer programs,
Carol Phillips moved, with a second by Charles Kirchen, that $600 could be used
from the undesignated fund balance to update the overdue computer program in
1991. The motion was approved unanimously. It was also agreed that in reporting
volunteer hours in Library statistics there was no need to try to indicate pay
equivalents for such volunteer hours although City of Fayetteville reports
apparently use such volunteer pay equivalents.
Glenda Brooks reported for the Fayetteville Library staff on the question of name
tags. Staff, while recognizing the need of encouraging rapport with patrons,
is still concerned about "problem patrons" and the possible undesirable
identification of individual staff members. One suggestion was that a
representative of the police be asked to meet with the Board and/or staff to
discuss what might be done in certain situations of trouble with "problem
patrons", and it was agreed that such a meeting would be useful indeed. In the
face of staff opposition, the Board agreed not to pursue the name tag proposal
further at this time.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:35 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Foster Park, Acting Secretary