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C I T Y O F F 0 R T C 0 L L I N S
PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES -- REGULAR MEETING
NOVEMBER 4, 1931 -- 7:00 n.m.
BOARD MEMBERS: Don Morgan, Chairman
Lloyd Spawn, Vice-chairman
Sarah Bennett
Jerry Johnson
Christine Kneeland
Linda Carbajal
Tom Sig]
PRESENT: LIBRARY BOARD -- Lloyd Spawn, Sarah Bennett, Jerry Johnson,
Christine Kneeland, Toni Sigl; LIBRARY STAFF -- Larry Webber,
Jane Davis, Robert Holzfaster.
The meeting was called to order by the Vice-chairman, Lloyd Spawn. The
minutes of the previous meeting were approved as distributed.
Larry Webber, Library Director, reported to the board inenibers that the
staff has received two inquiries about the security system fund drive from
libraries who saw the news release in LJ Hotline.
Laurie Thomsen, Children's Librarian, reported on the meeting she, Christine
Kneeland and Sarah Bennett had to evaluate the book I Know An Old Lady That
SwalloweFly. This book's suitability for children had been challenged
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by a library user. This committee did not reach complete agreement so
returned the matter to the full board. After discussion and evaluation of
reviews of the book Sarah Bennett moved that the book be replaced with
another version of the same rhyme. Tom Sig' seconded the motion. The
motion failed so the book is retained on the shelf. Sarah Bennett stated
that she still feels the illustrations are potentially dangerous. The
parent challenging the book and the book publishers will both be notified.
Larry Webber announced that the annual Friends of the Library Book Sale
held in October had netted $4,364. Ile also announced that the Larimer
County Conmiissioners' budget for 1981 allocated $197,000 for libraries.
Of this total Fort Collins Public Library will receive;
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Bookmobile (+11.6%) $43,000 $50,000
Jail (+3.4c') $16,700 $17,260
Fort Collins (+2.9%) $59,939 $61,645
City budget reductions have required that the library cut $4,492 or two-thirds
of one percent from the 1982 budget. This has been done.
Mr. Webber reported that arrangements are being made for more restrictive
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parking on the west side of Peterson in front of the library building. The
handicapped spots will remain the same, three 20 minute spots will be in-
stalled and the remaining spaces will be designated 60 minute parking.
Diagonal parking has been requested on the north side of Olive. This change
must be approved by the City Parking Commission. The board members con-
curred with this plan.
Jane Davis, Assistant Library Director, distributed the library statistics
report for October, 1981. Robert Holzlaster reported that the traffic
count for October showed 32'ti of building use in the morning, 38 in the
afternoon and 3V in the evening.
There was no report from the committee appointed to revise the Library Board
by-laws.
Tom Sigl asked for information on book selection, ordering and processing
procedures. He had been asked by a library patron why new books were not
more readily available.
The meeting was adjourned.
Before the meeting was called to order Laurie Thomsen, Children's Librarian,
conducted a tour of the Children's Area for board members.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane B. Davis, Secretary