HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/19/1986 - Regular Minutes - Bryan College Station Library System Advisory Board MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING
111 OF THE BRYAN LIBRARY BOARD
Harch_ 1:9, 1986
1 . On the 19 of March, 1986, the Library Board of the City
. of Bryan, Texas, convened in regular session in the regular
place in the Reading- Area of the Library Building, at 5 p.m.
with the following members present:
:rATTENDANCE
Member Present # of meetings a` of meetings
Absent held since attended since
appointment appointment
Ed Madeley, Pres, 26 26
Mrs. N.B. Bogard, A 48 34
Vice President
Judge C. Ruffin() A 26 17
Vic Paulus A 48 28
Mrs. N. Gibson P 26 18
Mrs„ Carolyn Alford P 6 4
Mrs . Mildred Thomas P 6 6
Also present were Mrs . Clara B. Mounce, City Librarian; Mrs.
• Jerilynr: A . Nill. iams, ' Associate City Librarian; and Mrs.
Laura Mills, secretary.
3. There were no visitors.
4. The minutes were approved.
5. The monthly report of statistics for January and February
were presented.
6 , There were no committee reports . However, Mr . !Madeley
stated that two board members would be up for reappointment
and one member 's term would be expiring . He asked that if
board members had a recommendation for the appointment to
contact Mrs. Mounce in the next two creeks,.
7 . In the librarian 's report, Mrs . Mounce stated that the
Friends of the Library will be purchasing a large misplay
case for the children 's department . She also commented that
the public access computer literacy program was going strong
and 94 hours of computer time had been logged from Feb, 10 to
date . Bathroom modifications for handicapped accessability
have been completed except for one door that had to be
ordered to match the existing partitions . Signs indicating
the facilities are for the handicapped are on order and will
be installed soon .
Regarding collection development, Mrs . Mounce reported
that a large science fair book order had been placed in order
to prepare for next year . The children 's department is
adding more to the Texas Collection as books in this area
have been scarce in the past.
The Brazos County history book will be unveiled or, April. 9
by Representative Richard ,=Smith.
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Mrs. Mounce reported that six librarians will be attending
the annual meeting of the Texas. Library Association .
• The Friends of the Library Annual Meeting will be held
April 17 at 7 p.m. in the library auditorium. She encouraged
board members to attend since there will be no board meeting
in April .
The Central Texas Library System will be purchasing for
the library a hard disk drive computer with bottom feed
printer that will be placed in the cataloging department.
Catalog cards can then be created on the computer ,
Mrs . Maurice expressed frustration at the problems with
the heating and cooling system in the library . in the past
two months, the pop—off valve of the boiler released steam in
the basement, a 10 h.p. motor on one of the air handlers went
out and a compressor also malfunctioned,
B . Mrs . Maurice reported that progress is being made on the
Branch Library . A meeting ' was held March 17 when the
contract was discussed which gives the City Librarian final
authority regarding hiring staff and ordering materials for
the branch library. The City of College, Station is currently
looking for a site for the library.
9 .A . A Summary of the Annual Report showed a sizeable
increase in all areas except only a .017increase in staff.
411 9 .B . Mrs . Mounce demonstrated the Kurzweil Reading Machine
to the Board members . She hope to advertise the machine in
the future and train at least one blind person to use it.
9 .C . Mr . Madeley brought up discussion of changing the
meeting time to 5:15 . it was decided to make no change, but
members were encouraged to be on time.
10 . There was no request for items for the agenda . it was
decided that there would be no meeting in April with the May
meeting scheduled for May 21 .
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Mr . Ed Madeley, Presiden Mrs. Clara B. Mounce
/e City Librarian
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