HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_LAB_10.12.2009Minutes of the Meeting of the
Library Advisory Board
of Georgetown, Texas
October 12, 2009
MEMBERS IN ATTENDENCE: Betty Anne Sensabaugh, Glenn Mautner, Shana
Nichols, Mansue Miller, Anjeanette Courtin, David Ciambrone and Kathryn
Morehouse.
ABSENT: None
STAFF IN ATTENDENCE• Eric Lashley, Library Director
OTHERS IN ATTENDENCE• Linda Nix (CTLS Lay Representative)
MINUTES:
The meeting was called to order by Chair Betty Anne Sensabaugh at 6:30 PM.
Glenn Mautner made the motion to accept the minutes of the September 2009
Library Advisory Board meeting and David Ciambrone seconded the motion.
The motion passed unanimously.
DIRECTOR'S REPORT:
Director Lashley reported that the library staff completed an inventory of the
library the week of October 5-9 Eric stated the inventory was very successful
and that he would share the statistics at the November board meeting.
Eric reported that the library ended the fiscal year on September 30. The library
finished the year with acirculation a little under 500,000. Library visitations were
up over last year and Internet usage was over 100,000. The library added
approximately 15,000 items and withdrew 21,000 items.
Director Lashley also reported that the library will be receiving approximately
$18,000 for temp/on-call employees.
Eric announced that the library has experienced no problems with the criminal
background checks. One volunteer originally decided not to participate and then
changed his mind.
Eric announced the Congregation Havurah Shalom of Sun City will be
sponsoring a Holocaust exhibit in the library from January 17 — February 2010.
As of October 12, 2009, over 100 school classes had requested tours of the
exhibit.
Eric also announced the Friends of the Library will be having a membership drive
October 18-24. The City of Georgetown will be doing a proclamation at the
October 13 meeting in honor of the Friends.
CONSIDERATION OF AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE FOLLOWING:
Introduction of a library staff member - Eric Lashley: No employee
was available for introduction.
■ Introduction of a board member — Betty Sensabaugh: Betty Anne
asked David Ciambrone to introduce himself to the board. David has lived
in Georgetown for approximately 5 years. Prior to moving to Georgetown,
he lived in southern California. He worked as an engineer and retired
from the defense contractor Raytheon. David writes mysteries and some
nonfiction. He writes the Uncle Dave column for the Williamson County
Sun. He is involved with a number of writing organizations and is a
member of the Georgetown Library Foundation.
• CTLS news — Linda Nix: Linda announced she and Eric attended the
annual membership meeting on September 25 in Harker Heights. They
attended the business meeting in the morning and a workshop on senior
programming in the afternoon. The afternoon workshop included a
storyteller, a slap -stick comedy group, and a vocalist. The outreach
librarian from Temple Public Library also discussed her outreach program
to nursing homes using Temple's bookmobile.
• Georgetown Learns — David Ciambrone: David announced the
Georgetown Learns program has begun and is averaging approximately
15 students per class. He said next semester's course schedule will be
published soon.
■ Kindles for our Library? — Eric Lashley: Eric passed out some
information about the Kindle reader and two Sony e-reader products.
According to the research, few public libraries are loaning out e-readers at
this time and the libraries that have loaned them out have had mixed
results. After much discussion, the board felt that it was too early to
attempt considering loaning e-readers. The board then discussed other
technologies and the Playaway, a pre -loaded digital audio book, was
discussed. After discussion, Eric agreed to research the viability of the
Playaways and report back to the board in November.
• Arrangement of adult fiction collection — Eric Lashley: Eric
announced he had received a request for information from Kathryn
Morehouse concerning the possibility of arranging the collection into
genres: mystery, science fiction, and westerns. Kathryn had been asked
to bring this to the Board by a long-time patron, Joe Pondrom. Eric
explained the library had been arranged by genres in years past. The
problem with arranging collections by genre is that it requires constant
shifting to keep the collections separated. Before moving to the new
library, the staff decided it would be best to interfile all fiction and also
interfile the former career collection and biography collection. To assist
patrons that preferred the old filing system, the staff color -coded the
collections, so that it would be easy to spot the different genres.
Chair Betty Anne Sensabaugh adjourned the meeting at 7:25 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Anjeanette Courtin, Secretary
Betty Jenne Sensabaugh, Chair