lbm19910205FEBRUARY 5, 1991
MUSKEG0 PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD CITY HALL
Present: Board members Christenson, Mundro, Roberson, Wolf, Buhrandt,
Matheson, Passler, Sanders, and Director Holly Sanhuber.
of the January 2, 1991 meeting were approved on motion C. Buhrandt,
Agenda was approved on motion J. Wolf, second C. Buhrandt. Minutes
second J. Wolf. Next meeting scheduled March 5, 1991.
Treasurer's report: Motion J. Wolf, second J. Roberson to approve
J. Wolf, second J. Roberson to approve January WCFLS expenditures
January expenditures in amoun-t of $26,137.56. Motion carried. Motion
in amount of $1,634.56. Motion carried.
Communications:
March 15 at Sunset Playhouse.
Meeting was called to order a-t 7:3O p.m.' by president Christenson.
Invitation to Elm Grove Friends of Library '91 Theater Benefit,
Get well card circulated for Donna Schmid.
Nemorial donation for Margaret Narlock received.
Old Business:
of Library for area joint meeting, Saturday, February 27. Elm Grove
Friends of Library is sponsoring a bus tour of 5 libraries on May 4
at cost of $7.25. Reservation deadline is April 26. Sixty reservations
a I3'l color TV for the raffle. Posters and raffle tickets are being
to date for the March 3 Craft Fair. Hales Corners State Wnk donated
printed. Steering committee will meet February 11, 9 a.m. at the Library.
Friends of the Library: Invitation received from Oconomowoc Friends
Trust Fund: no report
Librarian's report: read and placed on file. (copy attached)
Board meetings. Topics discussed: funding/state laws; continuing
I .I Interlibrary cooperation: F:. Christenson reported on two WCFLS
education programs, federation signs in every member library, Library
Legislation Day-February 21 ; crossover borrowing; home-bound program.
Staff has had a training session on software. Three reels of database
received. Memo distributed regarding bibliofile invoice.
New Business:
of VIDEO POLICIES AND PROCEDUFXS be tlis date. Motion carried.
Automation: Holly advised sinme equipment ordered, and some received.
Motion J, Wolf, second J. Kundro the second reading and adoption
Liability insurance discus::ion: no .report
Motion S. Passler, second J. Wolf to approve new hire Rosemary
Hallada, Clerk. Motion carried.
Meeting agenda format and -Lime of meeting were discussed. General
consensus was to make no chanpies at this time.
Pages 1-5 of WCFLS Long-range plan were discussed under leadership
of Jane Mundro. Next month assignment is pages 6-8, with J. Roberson as discussion leader.
keting adjourned at 8:35 on rrotion J. Wolf.
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.<LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
'!February 5, 1991
As I write this, Tuesday afternoon about 4:00, I am tired, but
lumphant. 'The blasted annual report (fourteen pages of instructions!) is
@:e . The statistical report is also done, and it was a very good year:
- We have nearly 12,000 registered borrowers - Our circulation is up 8% over last year, and 30% since 1980 - Over 42,000 questions were answered - Almost 66,000 people viE:ited the library in 296 days - Daily walk-in average was 223 people - More than 160,000 materi,als were shelved - Program attendance was mer 3,000
January saw over 11,000 items checked out. Yesterday was wild -
reserve have included Alaska, genet,ics and heredity, the Medieval period,
circulation of 847. Class assignments for which we have put materials on
and Black history.
repeat the program we did for regul.ar storyhours, which serve children 4-6
years old. The audience in these t.wo daycare groups has been getting
younger and special programs have had to be prepared. In addition, the
extreme youth of the children makes it impossible for them to be attentive
for 45 minutes or longer - the length of program requested by the day care
personnel. Therefore, we will be suspending these regularly scheduled
storyhours at the end of the year. We will instead encourage the groups to
come less frequently and to change the focus of the outing from a situation
Vernon Day Care and Day Care Providers visit monthly. We used to
& ere our staff babysits to a library-related "field trip" where we can
lor an occasional storyhour to t.he needs of that audience.
The Interlibrary Loan and Special Needs committees met, attended by
Phyllis and Penny respectively.
We are considering applyinq for an LSCA grant which would allow us
others who present programs for children could check out. Called "road
to buy materials to make up kits which teachers, day care providers, and
personal experience that a person called on to present weekly programs
shows," these would be prepared around a theme. The idea arose out of our
get "the show on the road." This :is still in the "maybe" stage, but if we
sometimes runs dry of ideas. These kits would help stimulate new ideas, and
board to be suprised.
are able to apply, we would need council approval, and we did not want the
We are again receiving a $:.,500 materials grant from WCFLS to update
the reference section.
Linda and I saw Brookfield's new library - awesome! - and went to
on the library software, and will begin to learn the wordprocessing program
look at barcode printers. Charlene, Linda and I received a day's training
that resides on the AS 400.
The new employee needs somewhere to sit and a desk to work at, so we
are going to move the present reference desk to the cubicle across from my d fice and we are going to buy a reference desk which will be able to
ccomodate the new computer equipment as well as the present set-up.
Five system workshops have been planned for 1991 - everything from
business reference to video repair.