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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
MARCH 11, 1986 -- 7:00 P.M.
BOARD MEMBERS: Christine Kneeland, President
Polly Walters, Vice-president
Jerry Johnson
Don Morgan
Lloyd Spawn
Catherine Fine
Susan Kirkpatrick
PRESENT: LIBRARY BOARD -- Christine Kneeland, Polly Walters, Catherine
Fine, Susan Kirkpatrick; LIBRARY STAFF -- Jane Davis, Robert
Holzfaster.
The meeting was called to order by the President, Christine Kneeland. The
minutes of the February meeting were approved as distributed. There was no
correspondence.
The statistical report for February was distributed. Circulation of
library materials, year-to-date, is up ten percent over 1985 and twenty
percent over 1984.
Jane Davis, Library Director, reported that Sally Robinson, Adult Literacy
Coordinator, is spearheading a movement to form a local coalition of people
and agencies interested in working on the problem of undereducated adults
in Larimer County. The first meeting will be held March 12 from 3:30 to
5:00 p.m, in the Delatour Room.
Jane Davis also reported that ballasts and lamps removed from light
fixtures in the library in the 1970's as an energy conservation measure
were being replaced as part of the lighting upgrade. Added lighting will
then be installed.
Board members received and accepted the final report on the video grant.
The grant period ended in late 1985. A copy of the report is attached to
these minutes.
Jane Davis reported that she had received seventeen applications for the
vacant adult services position. Interviews will be held in the next week
or ten days, and an offer of employment made and accepted by April 1.
Jane Davis also reported that the Poudre R-1 Committee on Hispanic Student
Achievement, of which she was a member, had presented their report to the
Board of Education on March 11'. She made a copy of the report available to
Library Boardmembers. Christine Kneeland, Board President, asked members
to read the report keeping in mind how the library could cooperate with the
school district.
Under Old Business, members again discussed the 1986 shortfall in the
library materials budget. Jane Davis reported that Pete Dallow, Acting
Assistant City Manager, had told her that if Library Boardmembers wanted to
discuss the 1985 and the 1986 materials budget with Councilmembers at a
Council Worksession that request should be put in writing. The members
asked Jane Davis to write to City Councilmembers requesting such a meeting.
Under New Business Jane Davis distributed copies of a letter from Doris
Greenacre, Historical Society President, asking that the library's local
history collection be named the Charlene Tresner Local History Collection.
Ms. Davis also distributed copies of the Cultural Resources Board's
guidelines on name designations. Christine Kneeland asked that members
study the material and be prepared to discuss the matter at the April
meeting.
Ms. Kneeland appointed Catherine Fine and Susan Kirkpatrick to read the
book The Trouble With Soap, by Margery Cuyler, and report back to the Board
at the next meeting. A parent has requested that this title be removed
from the library.
The meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Jane B. Davis
Secretary Pro—tem