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MINUTES OF THE LIBRARY BOARD
OF THE
CITY OF THE COLONY
August23,2007
A REGULAR SESSION of the Library Board of the City of The Colony, Texas, was called to
order by Vice-Chair Gehrke at 7:01 p.m.
Present: Sandi Gehrke Place 1
Diana Kruzich Place 2
Wanda Spears Place 3
Jayme Skelton Place 5
Wayne Bullard Place 6
Sue Parks Place 7
Joan Sveinsson Library Director
Absent: Lorraine Clark Place 4 (Personal)
Sue Parks Place 7 (Personal)
1. Citizens Input.
None
2. Minutes:
a. Consideration and approval of minutes of the board meeting held on July 26, 2007.
The minutes were approved as corrected.
3. Library Director's Report:
a. Status report re: operations
Library personnel staffed a booth at the Back to School Bash held at the Recreation
Center to issue library cards and promote the Library's services. The event was very
well attended, the library's booth was in a wonderful location, and the Parks and
Recreation staff arranged for an internet connection. It was definitely a positive
public relations activity for the Library and staff plans to participate in this event next
year.
Votes may still be cast in the "Librarian Idol" contest until September 15th. It appears
to take a lot of votes to move our library up in the rankings. The winning library will
be awarded $1,000 in books from the vendor that is sponsoring the contest.
The staff has been developing methods to promote National Library Card Signup
Month that takes place in September. Director Sveinsson has adapted some ALA
PSA's using Microsoft Movie Maker, combining the PSA audio with ALA graphics and
local photos, in the hopes of using them on the City's cable channel. TCPL has
entered into a friendly competition with Little Elm Public Library and Lakes Cities
Library for the most library cards signed up in September.
b. Status report re: FY 07-08 CIP, new personnel, and budget requests.
Another budget work session is scheduled for Monday, August 27, at 6 p.m. The
Electronic Resources Librarian position and the increase of $10,000 in the book
budget are still in the budget under consideration.
c. Status report re: grants.
Many of the items funded by the Loan Star Libraries Grant have arrived and have
been installed.
d. Update re: Friends of the Library activities.
The next book sale is scheduled for Saturday, September 8th.
In conjunction with the September 8th book sale, the Library and Friends will be
hosting a local author and illustrator book signing event in the lobby.
The next Library Board meeting is scheduled for September 27, at 7:00 p.m.
The meeting adjourned at 7:58 p.m.
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Sandi Gehrke, Vice-Chair
an L. Sveinsson, Acting Secretary