lbm19950404bAPRIL 4, 1995
MUSKEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
MUSKEGO CITY HALL
Meeting was called to order at 6 34 P.M. by president Cristenson
Present: R, Christensen, N Berken, D Carter, R. Jankowski, R. Rammer, C Stewart
Excused: P Patterson, R, Leichtfuss rind J Roberson
Statement of publlc notice was given on March 28
Agenda was approved on motion R, Jankowski, second D Carter
Minutes of March 7, 1995 were approved on motion D Carter, second R. Rammer
Next meeting scheduled April 10, 1995
Treasurers Report Motion N. Berken, second R. Rammer to approve March expenditures
of $23,262.33 and March Federated System expendltures of $3,168 11
Motion carried.
Communlcations: Park and Rec board approved installing a play structure on Clvic
Center grounds They are 1ooki.ng for our input In regard to site location
Holly will reply to Peter Thies that we will respond after architect review
Guest Comments: Joe Eberle of Ruekert L Mlelke will help on building
committee.
FOL No final report Womens Club thanked us for providing a booth for them
Trust Fund. Mid March balance of $37,275 32
Librarians Report: Motion to approve and place on file C Stewart, second
Interlibrary Cooperation: No report.
Automation No report
Long-range Planning: No report.
Resolve pending fine disputes None
and H. Sanhuber.
Old Business
N. Berken Motion carried. Distributed March Waukie-Talkie.
0 New Business:
I Meeting adjourned at 6 45 P.M. on motion N Berken, second C Stewart.
RUSS Jankowski
Secretary
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT
March, 1995
Business is brisk. There are three people on duty more often
than not, and all are kept busy waiting on customers.
The usual programming: adult and young adult reading groups and
pre-school storyhour. The three-year-old storyhour session is over.
The Peace Lambs three-year-olds came for a tour and program.
Penny went to an ETN on young adult books and another to plan for
the summer reading program.
debt to society, and we have had no trouble keeping them occupied with
the kinds of "housekeeping" .work we never have time for: photocopying
and cutting forms and scrap paper, going through S.I.R.S. looking for
missing issues, padding paper and forms, etc.
We have had some unexpected help from three young men paying a
Penny attended a meeting of the Waukesha County Literacy Council.
Holly and Penny are taking an ETN course on various fiction
writes like Louis L'Amour?" xhen one is not a reader of Westerns.
genres. It is hard to answer a customer, who asks, for instance, "Who
Romances, fantasy/science fiction and mysteries are the other
varieties of literature studied.
Volunteer Teri Searing finished entering the magazines onto the
computer. The city's Joe So;nmers, and Ann Christman from WCFLS have
new machine for interlibrary loan, and now Linda can access the AS-
swapped equipment, in a move made possible by the system's gift of a
400, WISCAT and Bibliofile - all from the same workstation. This will
speed automation, and now th3t Jane, our newest employee, has settled
into her job so well, Linda .dill be able to resume the work she had to
stop doing at Christmas time when Judy Wiedenkeller left us for city
hall.
The major topic at the :Yarch APL meeting and the impact the
Governor's proposed breakup ,3f the Department of Public Instruction
will have on library services, since the DLCL (Division for Libraries
and Community Learning) is a part of that larger agency. Among the
programs threatened is WISCAr, the state-wide database that we use
many times every day. Library board members were each sent a
legislative packet.
Our county aid payment zame in the amount of $6,647.00, which
included $300.00, the remain,der of our technology grant.
SOME COMPARATIVE STATISTICS:
MARCH
Shelving
Checkout 13
17
Traffic* 8
Questions 3
per day average
1
,
994
457
442
131
312
392
13
16
7
4
1 995
358
707
290
8 17
287