A quorum of members did not attend the scheduled library board meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 26 but the four attending members, Shirly Giles, Leny Buchman, Ila Dillon, and Savannah Lewis did hold an informal workshop discussion on several library matters.
Included in the discussions were:
- need to recruit new board members to replace one or two (not clear at present) members who no longer reside in the community;
- review of collection weeding practices and objectives;
- increased outreach to students in the light of reductions to the school library;
- development of a policy for reduction of priviledges for accounts with large numbers of missing or substantially-overdue items;
- security and bandwidth usage considerations in proposed addition of wireless internet service;
- review of documentation required as we move towards online publication of a searchable collection catalog.
No actions on these items were taken due to lack of a quorum.
The group agreed that setting a regular standing meeting schedule for the last Wednesday of each quarter would provide board members better opportunity for planning ahead. Because of the Christmas holidays, however, the next meeting was tentatively scheduled for Jan. 2, 2008, at 4 pm in the library. All board meetings and workshops are open to attendance by the public although public participation may be limited at the discretion of the meeting chair.
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