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PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
MINUTES -- REGULAR MEETING
OCTOBER 5, 1977 -- 7:30 p.m.
BOARD MEMBERS: Joan Deines, President
Robert Burns, Vice-president
Frank Johnson, Jr., Secretary
Sarah Bennett
Carolyn Haase
PRESENT: BOARD -- Joan Deines, Robert Burns, Frank Johnson, Jr., Sarah
Bennett, Carolyn Haase; LIBRARY STAFF -- Larry Webber, Jane
Davis, Robert Holzfaster.
The board president, Joan Deines, called the meeting to order. The minutes
of the September 7 meeting were approved as amended and corrected.
Larry Webber, Library Director, reported on the following items:
1. Attendance at a session on guidelines for grant proposals
for special programs for libraries held by the Colorado
State Library on October 4, 1977. Library Services and
Construction Act Title I funds in the amount of $603,000
are available for distribution to Colorado libraries in
1978. Letters of intent must be filed by November 7, 1977,
with the Colorado State Library.
2. Sunday hours are proving both popular and successful. The
library has had no complaints on the Friday evening closing.
Carolyn Haase reported a wide range of ages in the library
on Sunday.
3. A meeting of representatives from Reid -Burton Construction
Company and some of the contractors and sub -contractors on
the library building project will be held on Friday, October
7. Items relating to the building still in need of com-
pletion or correction will be discussed.
4. The October Library Activities Calendar was distributed.
5. Scott O'Dell will not be here at the library for National
Children's Book Week. Mary Elting Folsum, children's
author from Ward, Colorado, will be our guest.
6. A statistical report on the library circulation through
August, 1977, was distributed.
Under old business, Larry Webber, Library Director, distributed a report to
the board on the Centralized Purchasing and Processing project. Through
September, 1977, 1141 books have been ordered and 867 processed and returned
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to the contracting library.
The library's budget hearing with the City Council was held Thursday, Sep-
tember 28. Joan Deines and Carolyn Haase were present from the board.
The City Council's response to the library budget was favorable. Parking
lot needs and development as mentioned by the Council was discussed by
the board. Larry Webber reported that he and Pat Polifka, City Projects
Manager, were recommending to the Interim City Manager that the projected
parking lot on the corner of Mathews and Olive not be developed at this
time.
The library board discussed the disposition of funds remaining in the
library building project, Sarah Bennett moved that the $30,000 trans-
ferred into the building project from the 1976 library book budget be re-
turned to the library funds for books, as agreed to at the library board
meeting on February 6, 1976, held in the city manager's office and attended
by then city manager Robert Brunton. Bob Burns seconded the motion. The
motion carried,
Larry Webber announced that a breakfast meeting of County Library Board
members, state legislators representing Larimer County, and librarians
from the four public libraries in the county would be held October 7 in
Loveland.
Under new business, Carolyn Haase opened discussion on library board
minutes. She expressed concern on the style of the minutes, responsi-
bility for taking minutes, and the disposition of the minutes in a memo
distributed to the board and staff. No action was taken.
Carolyn Haase opened discussion on the issue of confidentiality of library
records by distributing to the board and staff copies of an article in
The Unabashed Librarian, No. 22, September, 1977, which the board read
with interest. Sarah Bennett asked what the Fort Collins Public Library
policy was on this issue. Larry Webber reported that this library gives
out no information of any kind on what items a person checks out, what
their library use patterns are, or their address or telephone number. He
offered to obtain information on this issue from the American Library
Association, Intellectual Freedom Committee.
Larry Webber announced that the annual Colorado Library Association meeting
will be held in Denver October 16, 17, 18, and 19. Carolyn Haase, Joan
Deines, and Robert Burns from the library board will attend some of the
sessions. Several members of the library staff will also attend,
Mountain Plains Library Association annual meeting will be held November
3, 4, and 5 in Rapid City, South Dakota. Larry Webber will attend that
meeting. Frank Johnson moved that all library board members be encouraged
to attend any and all library meetings and programs in Colorado with re-
imbursement of registration cost if possible, subject to the professional
staff having priority for reimbursement. Carolyn Haase seconded the motion.
Bob Burns moved to table the motion.
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The next regular board meeting will be November 9, postponed from November
2 because Larry Webber will be attending Mountain Plains Library Associa-
tion annual meeting November 3, 4, and 5 in Rapid City, South Dakota.
The meeting was then adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane Davis, Secretary Pro-tem