HomeMy WebLinkAboutLibrary Board - Minutes - 12/02/1981CITY OF FORT C 0 L L I N S
PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES -- REGULAR MEETING
DECEMBER 2, 1981 -- 7:00 p.m.
BOARD MEMBERS: Don Morgan, Chairman
Lloyd Spawn, Vice-chairman
Sarah Bennett
Jerry Johnson
Christine Kneeland
Linda Carbajal
Tom Sigl
PRESENT: LIBRARY BOARD -- Don Morgan, Lloyd Spawn, Sarah Bennett, Jerry
Johnson, Christine Kneeland; LIBRARY STAFF -- Larry Webber, Jane
Davis, Robert Holzfaster.
The meeting was called to order by the Chairman, Don Morgan. The minutes
of the previous meeting were approved as distributed.
Larry Webber, Library Director, reported that the Larimer County Library
Services Board's annual Legislative Breakfast scheduled for Friday, December
4, had been cancelled. The Colorado Library Association is planning on
sponsoring a Legislative Day in January in Denver.
Mr. Webber also announced that the Friends of the Library had pledged $800
for the film programs March through December, 1982. The Friends will no
longer be holding the monthly parties for five -year -olds. However, five
year olds obtaining their first library cards will be recognized in some
manner. Library staff members are also hopeful that the Friends will
contribute funds for the 1982 Summer Reading Program.
Library staff and Friends of the Library will be holding the annual Christmas
Party Tuesday, December 15, in the Ben Delatour Room. Board members are
invited to drop in.
Mr. Webber distributed copies of a brochure announcing a City of Fort Collins
sponsored Productivity Conference 1/13-15/82 at the Lincoln Center.
American Library Association will hold its annual Mid -winter Conference in
Denver 1/22-29/82. There will be meetings for library trustees 1/22-25/82.
In order to get more of the desired materials into the hands of library users,
the library board members suggested that library staff do a survey to determine
whether library users are finding sought for materials.
Sarah Bennett suggested that the Library Board more actively solicit memorial
gifts to the library collection. The Library Board agreed to contact funeral
directors and outline the process of designating memorial gifts to the library.
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Larry Webber announced that he is working on long-range plans for library
services in Fort Collins.
Jane Davis assured the board members that Altantic-Little Brown would be
contacted about the illustrations in the book I Know an Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Fly.
The meeting was adjourned.
Before the meeting was called to order a tour of Circulation and Technical
Service Areas was conducted for board members by David Bagge, Circulation
Supervisor, and Carol Grasmick, Technical Services Librarian.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane B. Davis, Secretary