Library Advisory Board Minutes - 03/19/2013 LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD MINUTES
March 19,2013
MEMBERS PRESENT: MEMBERS ABSENT:
Donna Jane McGough Arthur Bea Williams
Kay Story Carrie Ann Taylor
Jean Hall Peggy Browning RECEIVE[) IN
Amy Bobrowitz Jennifer Andrews CLERKSOFFIC
Jackie Quevas CITY
CATE-
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS PRESENT: E.
Jack Murphy,Director Parks&Recreation BY:
Alan Martin,Friends Liaison
A quorum was present and the meeting was called to order at 5:00 pm.
Librarian's report:
Staff:Dealing well with extended absence of a library assistant after surgery and ensuing complications. Staff have really stepped up
to take on daily tasks and extra hours to cover scheduled evening shifts.
Spring Break movies proved popular with an average of approximately 100 children in attendance for each show.
The library just hosted two North Texas Library Partners(NTLP)workshops,both of which were much appreciated by the attendees.
The morning session was titled `How to deal with difficult people' and was designed to help staff identify potential conflicts and to act
accordingly to avert any major crises. The afternoon session was a True Colorsrm workshop,where participants took a short
questionnaire to determine their dominant personality types(or colors)and then learned how this pertains to their library duties. This
program definitely produced the most discussion and conversation among staff in attendance from the library: thankfully most of it
extremely positive!
This weekend at Washington Jackson,the Arno Leer group are sponsoring another Financial Aid event aimed at reaching high school
seniors and their parents who might be otherwise overwhelmed by the process of FAFSA and TAFSA. To date,we've been able to
help over 80 families,and we will soon be participating in another round of Priddy Foundation grant applications to try and secure
funding for future events. Library staff continue to collaborate with Zavala and MSU Project BOW to ensure that we try to reach out
to underserved segments of the local population.
The library has been confirmed as a World Book Night site,which means that we should be receiving boxes of books that individuals
in our community have elected to distribute all over the city on Tuesday,April 23. We should know more details of numbers,names
etc shortly,and will be hosting an event on Tuesday,April 16 to open the book boxes and let the community givers meet each other.
Tuesday,April 16—Could be a busy day! This is the date of the next Advisory Board meeting and coincides with the Recreation
Department's Open House going on upstairs from 5:30-7:30pm. Amy Bobrowitz suggested that the monthly Newcomer's Orientation
events held at the base might be a good opportunity to showcase city services,and to recruit new library visitors.
Friends' report:
ess, with over 300 children receiving a free book and participating in the various
The Dr. Seuss program was deemed a great succ
activities and games held upstairs.
The annual Friends Volunteer Appreciation Dinner will be held on April 2 at China Star.
The next book sale will be May 2 through May 4.
Next meeting April 16,2013
There being no further business,the meeting was adjourned at 5:40 pm.
Donna Jane McGough,Chair