Wayne Public Library Board of Trustees

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 / 5:15 p.m., Conference Room

 

AGENDA

 

CALL TO ORDER:  The Wayne Public Library Board met on Tuesday, April 6, 2004.

 

ROLL CALL:  President Joel Ankeny called the meeting to order.  All members, Library Director Lauran Lofgren, and City Administrator, Lowell Johnson, were present.

 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES:  The minutes of the March board meeting were approved as written.

 

DISCUSSION OF PERSONNEL EXPENSES – Lowell Johnson gave some information about increases for the upcoming fiscal year.  City employees who did not receive a raise this year will  be getting one in the next fiscal year.

 

FINANCIAL REPORT – The financial report showed one correction from last month, which has been corrected.  The report also shows 6 months worth of retirement, worker's comp, etc. and several items paid from the business office not previously reported to board.  The financial report was approved as submitted.

 

DIRECTOR'S REPORT

· Statistics	FEB 04	MAR 04	MAR 03
Circulation	4112	4463	4867
Patrons	2651	2981	2697
Meeting Room	12	17	10
Reference ?s	218	295	431
Computer ?s	--	72	NA
Phone Calls	--	348	NA
OPACs	329	374	441
CD-ROMs	129	152	246
Internet	644	767	686
New Patron Cards	22	18	NA
Items added	106	99	110
Items deleted	25	39	63

 

· Meetings / events attended

-         Third Lewis and Clark event here – Randy Bertolas.  Great attendance.

-         Ms. Lofgren went with Dr. Bertolas to Neligh twice for Lewis and Clark presentations.

-         Ms. Lofgren met with Technology Plan Committee twice.

-         Ms. Lofgren atteneded NELS budget meeting and the Northeast Library System board meeting.

-         Pam Boehle attended a Summer Reading Program workshop in Norfolk.  This summer's program will have a Lewis and Clark theme.

-         Ms. Lofgren, Beth Ann Sharer, and Pam Boehle spent a day in Omaha purchasing books and prizes for the summer reading program.

-         Ms. Lofgren and Pam Boehle attended the Duane Munson book fair and dinner.

-         A Dinner for Centennial Committee members was held (partially funded by foundation).

 

· Staff Projects and concerns

-         Winter Story Time has concluded a very successful season.

-         Some late winter during March weather impacted numbers, including being closed one Monday, which is usually the busiest day of the week.

-         Working with Dean Newton on May book sale.  Dates are May 6-8; the location is the old fire hall.

-         Ms. Lofgren is working on developing PowerPoint assisted classes for basic word processing and Internet.

-         The Cat in the Hat Dr. Suess's birthday program was well attended.  We shared the outfit with the elementary school.  Pam Boehle will pursue working with them on an outfit they might purchase that we could use also.  A thank you note was sent.

-         Registrations have been made for Ms. Lofgren, Beth Ann Sharer, Maureen Kingston, and Charlene Rasmussen to attend the Pat Wagner Library Marketing workshop in late April.

-         Digitization workshop will be held next week.  Ms. Lofgren is going to get information from that on what we might do here.

-         A personnel workshop will be held in July.

-         The Wayne Library Institute will be June 3 with an afternoon session on new accreditation standards followed by the Trustee talk table.

-         Preparing for the volunteer recognition event on April 18 at 3 p.m.

-         BAS and LK taught one computer class.

-         Received two memorials – one for Mary DeFreese and one for Will Hammer (infant son of Mark and Jenny Hammer).  Materials for the collection will be purchased and dedicatory plates put inside.

-         Four WSC students have given us time for field experience credit.  Three of them will continue to help out through National Library Week.

-         The library will host the Chamber Coffee on April 16.

 

· Computer Concerns

-         None to speak of.

 

· Building Concerns

-         Waiting to hear about work on roof.

-         Waiting to hear about ceiling fans – they are up in the senior center.

-         First floor siding is just about complete.

 

OLD BUSINESS

-         Technology plan – the board received copies of the plan.  The issue will be discussed at the May meeting.

-         The board discussed ideas for possible board members.

 

NEW BUSINESS

-         The proposed reciprocal agreement with Conn Library will be discussed at the May meeting.

-         The proposed display case policy will be discussed at the May meeting.

-         2004-2005 budget proposals – Ms. Lofgren presented a rough draft of the budget that displayed several options.  The board will discuss the budget in detail during the May meeting.

-         Discussed concern from a patron about recorded books.  The patron has donated and checked out a number of abridged books on tape and is concerned that the library seems to be moving away from abridged books.  Ms. Lofgren offered to speak to the patron about his concerns.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Mary Carstens

Secretary