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Library Advisory Board Minutes - 10/28/2008LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD MINUTES October 28, 2008 Nth' IBERS PRESENT: Richard Sutton Nell Lister Jeff Tillman Amy Bobrowitz Steven Young EX- OFFICIO MEMBERS PRESENT: Matt Benoit, Assistant City Mangaer Lesley Daly, Library Administrator MEMBERS ABSENT: Ellen Williams Stephen Dodge Teresa Wilcox A quorum was present and the meeting was called to order at 4:24 pm. Dr Richard Sutton agreed to Chair the Library Advisory Board for 2008 -9. The minutes from September 23 were accepted and approved. Librarian's report: Ms. Daly reported that the library has had to extend the search for a Librarian I: staff interviewed 14 qualified candidates and then offered the job to 6 individuals who had then all declined the position. When a reason was given, most people indicated that the salary was the deciding factor. The re- posting has already garnered some more interest, and Ms. Daly was hopeful that the position could be filled by the end of the calendar year. Ms. Daly reviewed a selection of annual statistics (attached) from Fiscal Year 2007 -8. These included door count totals and circulation totals, as well as a more detailed breakdown of how well individual collections had checked out during the year. Although a relatively small collection, the library DVDs have almost tripled in checkouts over a 4 year time period. Fiction checkout has increased steadily over the same time period, with nonfiction showing a slow decline. Ms. Daly noted that this was most likely due to the ever - increasing popularity of electronic resources, and noted that staff are now busy weeding the physical Reference collection, moving a large number of items to nonfiction shelves, and hopefully creating space for other collections to expand into. Copies of two policies, Library Rules of Conduct and Children in the Library were distributed for review. Ms. Daly asked that members look over the documents and note any suggested changes or questions for the next meeting. Ms. Daly confirmed that there is still a vacancy on the Board and asked members to consider possible candidates. Next meeting: The date of the next Advisory Board meeting will be November 25, 2008 at 4:15 pm in the Library Conference Room. There being no further items for discussion, the meeting adjourned at 4:45 pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . r • Approximately 50 circulating collection codes Years reported are fiscal years — Oct -Sep Table 1: Circulation totals — includes computer usage Table 2: Most popular types of items checked out in Adult, YA and Youth collections # of checkouts 2008 12007 12006 12005 Total Circ 1362079 1358630 1356979 1457294 60749 Table 2: Most popular types of items checked out in Adult, YA and Youth collections # of checkouts 2008 2007 2006 2005 Adult Fiction 67484 63820 62594 60749 (incl pbk + leased Adult 50401 52072 53264 55592 Nonfiction (incl leased YA Fiction 11866 10766 9379 8567 incl bk) YA Nonfiction 6158 7157 5568 4664 MWIR 25144 Youth Picture 24074 27132 25318 Books Youth Fiction 18246 18319 18329 17939 incl bk Youth 15777 17056 15687 17797 Nonfiction ..§ _ IN ,.. °v_ '7 =�c ` 3 �..` ?E,'•, .ABA ' C ��r'. DVD 22967 19095 11424 8065 Video 16398 23474 28611 30958 Table 3: Totals from electronic gate counts — includes nropTgm attendance unctairc 2008 2007 2006 2005 Door Count 1207566 1201991 1195165 1207304 s Door Counts Computer Use 2006 2007 2008 May 16255 18090 16218 June 20048 20873 20616 July 17873 20728 21384 August 17359 18699 18759 Eclipse Meyer 7 Total 71535 78390 76977 Computer Use OverDrive Currently, the consortium has 296 titles in the collection Top 10 checkouts are (from inception through Sep 22): Fearless Fourteen Evanovich 2006 2007 2008 May 4678 6384 5775 June 5521 7420 6399 July 5948 6942 6650 August 6214 7011 6389 Eclipse Meyer 7 Total 22361 27757 25213 OverDrive Currently, the consortium has 296 titles in the collection Top 10 checkouts are (from inception through Sep 22): Fearless Fourteen Evanovich 9 Eldest Paolini 8 The Whole Truth Baldacci 8 "A" Is For Alibi Grafton 7 Back to the Bedroom Evanovich 7 Blue -Eyed Devil Kleypas 7 Double Take Coulter 7 Eclipse Meyer 7 New Moon Meyer 7 Odd Hours Koontz 7 Library # Patrons Bedford Public Library 64 Benbrook Public Library 38 The Colony Public Library 56 Grapevine Public Library 24 John Ed Keeter Public Library (Saginaw) 59 Keller Public Library 140 Wichita Falls Public Library 114 # Checkouts 114 52 127 65 123 229 245