01-08-2007 (Library) Minutes MINUTES
Library Advisory Board
Monday,January 8, 2007
Smith Public Library
800 Thomas Street
7:00 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER
Grace Morrison called the meeting to order.
Members present: Grace Morrison, Shirley Burnett, David James, Sandra Williams,
Junaid Najamuddin, Lucy Shriver, Rachel Orozco
Members absent: Joe Murphy
CITIZEN PARTICIPATION
PRESENTATION
ACTION ITEMS
Minutes were read and approved for the October 9 and November 13, 2006
meetings.
The Long Range Plan was approved.
Library Director, Rachel Orozco, presented the proposed fines and fees schedule
to update the ordinance. Board members discussed the $1.00 per page for fax
services. Library Board members discussed lowering the fee to .50. One of the
members felt that lowering the fax service might bring more people into the
Library. Fax service has gone up and our revenues have increase over the years.
Faxes in 2004-2005 $383.00; 2005-2006 $534.00. It was also discussed to see
what long distance faxing would cost for the future services. The majority is for
lowering the fax fee to .50.
Library Board asked about the .25 per color. This is a new service so the Library
does not have the track record for it. Most libraries charge .25. The children are
the main users of the color copier. The Library will track usage this coming year.
A Library Board member asked about the $1.00 fee for video and if that was
enough to get the material returned. The video was extended to three weeks with
no renewals. Patrons were renewing videos and accruing fines. The videos do
not have a high demand.
The fines and fees schedule was approved with the .50 change for fax service.
The changes and additions to the Fines and Fee Schedule is as follows:
• Books, Magazines, Books-on-Tape/CD, Video (per day, per item) .10
• DVD(per day,per item) 1.00
• Fax(including cover page, per page) .50
• Copies,photocopier and printer(Black White,per page) .10
• Copies, printer(color, per page) .25
• Library Card Replacement 1.00
• Barcode 1.00
• Damaged Material, cost of the materials, plus $3.00 processing fee
• DVD and Video cases 3.00
• Lost Materials, cost of materials, plus $3.00 processing fee
• Overhead Projector, per day 10.00
STAFF REPORTS
The Library Board took a practice survey that will be given out to users and non-users.
Rachel Orozco, Library Director, announced that the Library received a Spot Consultant
Grant to study and recommend staffing for the new building.
The architects will present a schematic design for a one story library. The Library Board
discussed the pros and cons of a one story library based on security and service issues.
The Library has a new Technical Services Librarian, Laura Condit.
Cristen Williams, Children's Librarian, received the Innovation Award. Scottie Robbins,
Library Technician,received the Grace Under Pressure Award for her work this year.
The Friends made about $1700 with a gift of$1000 from WalMart. It is getting more
difficult to get individual companies to give for the Greeting Card Page.
OTHER ITEMS
ADJOURNMENT
Grace Morrison adjourned the meeting
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