Trustee & Volunteer Minutes 8/7/08
Roger Clark Memorial Library Minutes 8/7/08
Present – Marion, April (secretary), Susie, Sharon, Nancy, Angelique
Treasurer’s report: Checking balance - $3091.05. half.com (telephone) account - $55.35. Ranney/Jutson CDs - $1000 each. AEF savings - $641.80. We received a donation of $100 for our summer programs.
Upcoming events:
8/24 – last summer picnic/scavenger hunt/movie (will check with Becca on scavenger hunt)
9/2 – mushroom walk at 4pm
9/4 – library meeting at 6:30
9/27 – book sale at town bazaar
9/30 – book club at 6:30
Turrell grant: Angelique reported that the next deadline is in Feb. and the process can be done online. What are our needs for Fall 09/Spring 2010? We should definitely ask for book money, but what about the after-school program? We need someone to head this up the year after next as Angelique will not be able to commit.
Listen Up VT: We are looking for someone to run this program, Nancy will review information about this. We paid membership toward this and need to begin training staff and offering to community. Maybe purchase MP3 players to circulate?
Monthly display: Ray Rice is on board for August.
Cataloging: Susie is weeding the card catalog so that we can add new ones. We file by title and author. New cards need to be sorted into categories (such as adult fiction, easy reader, etc.), then alphabetized by author and title. Author cards can go in drawers; title cards are not cleaned out yet.
Book sale is 9/27. Be ready to volunteer!
We have a lot of new juvenile books from Turrell Grant – spread the word!
Privacy compliance: Per State of VT, we need to develop a new circulation policy – all patrons need to be assigned a number, rather than using name to check out books.
Language program: Sue would be willing to teach Korean if there is interest. John could also teach Chinese twice a week! We don’t have a library person who can host on a regular basis at this point. Perhaps we can fold this into the after-school program? We will check with Angelique and Joyce. Another thought was that we could offer adult cooking/language classes?
