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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-02-09 Library MinutesCITY OF APACHE JUNCTION LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1177 N. Idaho Road Regular Meeting February 9, 2006 A regular meeting of The Board of Trustees of Apache Junction Public Library was held February 9, 2006 at 6:05 p.m. at the Apache Junction Library pursuant to notice as prescribed by law.President Lori D'Amico appointed Rhonda Jackson as acting secretary. Roll Call Present Lori D' Amico Rhonda Jackson Joyce Payne Theresa Nesser Tern i Parker Absent Everett Deidiker Staff: Pamela Loui, Library Director and Spencer Paden, Library Manager 1. Acceptance of Agenda: 2. Acceptance of minutes for January 12, 2006 regular Meeting: 3. Call to the Public: 4. Correspondence and Communications: 5. Librarian's Report: The question of accepting the agenda for the February 9, 2006, regular Meeting was placed before the Board. Theresa Nesser made a motion to accept the agenda. Rhonda Jackson seconded the motion.All members •present were in favor. The question of accepting the minutes for the January 12, 2006, regular Meeting was placed before the Board. Theresa Nesser made a motion to accept the minutes. Lori D'Amico seconded the motion. All members present were in favor. None. None. Pam passed around an article that talked about Family Place at the Library.The Americans for Library Council tells about a situation that happened at the Parent/Child City of Apache Junction Library Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Page 2 6. Old Business: a.Update and discussion on library building project. •Workshops where the parent of a young child came in contact with a care provider • that realized that their child appeared to have autism.The caregiver helped the child get the treatment he needed.Now, 2 years later he is getting all kinds of services. It shows that libraries do change lives and can do some really wonderful.things.This article was directed to Liz Burks, our Youth Services Librarian who operates the Parent/Child workshop. Pam reviewed statistics for the monthly report and showed that most categories have increased over one year ago. A presentation of the concept for library expansion may be made to the Council on either the February 21 st meeting or at the March 6th worksession.Pam will provide a report at the next meeting if available. b.Update on development of the former Senior Center space.We have painters who are painting the old senior center kitchen space which will be a staff lounge.Once completed, carpeting will be scheduled and installed concurrently when the cabling and electrical will be done. c.Update on Digital Audio books. 7.New Business: a.Teen Advisory Board update. This includes not only audio books but e- books, music and video.The training for staff will take place in late February.March will be used as a test period to make sure technical questions can be answered by the staff. We are scheduled to go live with Overdrive on April 3. Kendra Stoks is President of the Teen Advisory Board.She reported on what the TAB group has been doing over the past City of Apache Junction Library Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Page,3 year.Summer programs included popular movies. TAB members sold drinks, candy and cookies and teens and children really enjoyed the movies. In October TAB held a halloween Teen Chat Café. There were many different costumes and competitions for best costume, worst costume, scariest costume and most original costume.A Christmas play took place at the Multigen facility and included more families this year. TAB presented a "Polar Express" play in which they created their own train as a prop. In addition, they did a play of Santa's Christmas vacation where Santa decided to take a vacation during Christmas. They also did these performances at Four Peaks Elementary School.In January, guest speaker, Stacy Cochran, who writes books for teens, came to the library.Kids loved it and a new TAB member signed on as a result of this event.Stacy provided information on how to publish, write and bring books to life, and tips for overcoming writer's block.Sonya Hewitt will be another guest speaker in April.She is an artist. February 25 th is the parade. This•years parade float will be entitled "Parade of Dreams" and will be a cloud float. Members on the float will be characters from their favorite books. TAB is currently working on a teen lock in/get together.Teens would come to the library and would need to check out one item from the library to receive a ticket. Once they have their ticket, they can go to the Multigen Center for a special fun time just for them.Some ideas would be video games, pool, scavenger hunts, board games and musical chairs. TAB is also working on the "Teen Compound."They are hoping to paint a café scene on one wall and would like to get high top tables and chairs so the teens look like they are in a café.TAB members would paint the scenery.They would also like to get a neon sign that says City of Apache Junction Library Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Page 4 b.Meet library staff member. c. Discussion on World Cat d.Discussion on computer filtering. "Teen Compound" or a scroll sign that tells what upcoming things are going on at the library.They are working on more decorations and celebrity posters.TAB would like to add more movies in the summer and possibly poll teens on what they want to watch.They are planning more Teen Chat Cafes and will possibly have game nights or drawing competitions.There are 17 TAB members this year. TAB is also looking into possibly adding special nights where they could have people bring in sculptures or pottery.They are creating a magazine that would describe what movies are coming out, what new books are out and possibly include a poll on what teens want to see in the library. Meet Cans O'Malley. Canis is a Library Clerk II.Canis works primarily at the circulation desk checking materials in and out.Cans also does book repairs and proofreading.Caris is an honor student at CAC studying Psychology.He has been here for six years and enjoys working in the library. World Cat is the world's most comprehensive bibliographic database. A program called the "Open World Cat" program will be starting up soon.It will make items in the library collections discoverable by people who search the internet.At one time, World Cat was a paid subscription product that libraries could access.The Arizona State Library pays for the Library's subscription.It is used in verifying interlibrary loan requests and finding libraries close by that have materials patrons are looking for.It includes the title of a book and then lists the holdings by various libraries. Our library has computer filtering to try to minimize the opportunity of a member of the public getting on to pornographic City of Apache Junction Library Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Page 5 websites.Technology probably covers us 98% of the time.Unfortunately no filtering product is 100%.Some of the libraries arguing against using filters have said that they don't want to use filters because it gives the public a false sense of seeurity. We also have a backup "use" policy for the internet.Anyone who gets on to our computers has agreed by touching the keyboard that they are going to honor the policy.The policy basically says that anything illegal must not be accessed. It reminds the public that we are a public place and that children use the facility as well. Spencer added that there are areas in the policy that discuss the laws and appropriate use of the library's computer system. We do have signs in the computer areas as well that have information that talks about the appropriate use of the computers. e.Discussion on corporate funding.Terri Parker stated she had not found anything new on corporate funding and noted that Pam had said that it might be a good idea to wait until the expansion efforts are presented to the Council before pursuing avenues of funding. f.Reminder of terms due to expire June 30,2006.The following terms are due to expire on June 30, 2006;Joyce Payne and Terri Parker.Pam requested that if they would like to be considered for a renewal term on the Board, she needed a short note indicating interest in being reappointed. g.Reminder of upcoming Library Legislative Day on March 2, 2006.Pam read some information from the Arizona Library Association promoting Library Legislative Day.On Library Legislative Day librarians from across the state will have the opportunity to meet elected officials and discuss issues of importance.This is a critical year for librarians because a portion of the 2006 City of Apache Junction Library Board of Trustees Regular Meeting Page 6 8.Request for future agenda items. 9. Adjournment: _ Seaetarv legislative session concerns the expenditure of a surplus of almost one billion dollars. Numerous proposals already exist among members of the legislature and from the governor.AzLA voices also need to be heard proposing and speaking about the importance of libraries in the community, the needs of local libraries and the importance of school libraries.In addition to librarians, there is always a desire that the members of the library board and members of the community that have an interest show up and express to these legislatures that these libraries are important.The day is on Thursday, March 2. The time is between 9:00 and 4:00 p.m. Registration is between 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.Pam needs to know in advance if anyone plans to attend.There is a $10.00 registration fee that the Pinal County Librarian has agreed to cover for those who wish to go.Terri Parker, Lori D'Amico and Joyce Payne stated that they would like to go to this event. Old Business. Update on the library building project. Update on development of the former Senior Center space. Update on Digital Audio books. New Business. Discussion on out of county card fees and paying the entire fee at one time. Discussion of guest cards for out of state patrons for job searches. Meet Library Staff member. Discussion on Library Legislative Day. Meeting adjourned at 7:13 p.m.