HomeMy WebLinkAboutLibrary Board Minutes 10.08.2002 MINUTES OF THE LAUREL PUBLIC LIBRARY
BOARD OF TRUSTEES October 8, 2002
Attending -Gail Brice(presiding), Katherine Kucera, Clair Killebrew, Bonnie
Latham, and Peggy Arnold
Minutes -read and approved
Correspondence -There will be a trustee workshop on October 25 -26 at the
Northern Hotel and Peggy will attend a retreat at Chico Hot Springs October 21-
22. Peggy will present some information on library foundations to the City
Council on October 15 at 6:30.
Circulation- Traffic for September 2002 was 1,219 up 4% from September 2001.
Circulation for September 2002 was 2,588 down 1% from September 2001.
Old Business -The Montana Committee for the Humanities program with Bill
Rossiter will be held on Nov. 6 at the library at 7 p.m. The Eagle Scouts will
spend all day on October the 17th working at the library. Peggy attended a
workshop on library foundations on September 20th in Helena. Peggy is still
talking to library users about forming a Friends of the Library. We will change
the library hours on October 17 to open at 9 a.m. for the convenience of our
library users.
New Business -Clair reported that her quilt guild plans on displaying quilts in the
library twice a year. She has also talked to another group of quilters who would
also display their quilts throughout the year. Bonnie Latham has been recovering
some of our books. Katherine Kucera reported on the Federation meeting that
she attended with Bonnie and Peggy on October 5. Karen Stege, presented a
report on cuts in federation money and to the State Library for fiscal year 2002-
2003 and ask for help to identify cuts for fiscal year 2004 -2005. Peggy
distributed some sample job descriptions from the State Library and the job
descriptions that the City of Laurel has adopted for the Library employees. We
will try to find out who should prepare and adopt the job descriptions for the
library employees at the Trustee Workshop on October 25 and 26.
Next Meeting- Nov. 12 at 6:30 p.m.