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CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS
LIBRARY BOARD MINUTES
March 16, 1995
BOARD PRESENT:
Polly Brinkley, Jan Daniels, Jay Bradshaw, Avis
Crisp, Lynn Waller, Kay Schmidt, and Mary Shilcutt
(Absent: Shirley Goolsby)
Elizabeth Russell, Assistant Library Director
Brenda Lewis, Secretary
Chairman Jay Bradshaw at 7:05 p.m.
Minutes of February 16, 1995 were approved as
written.
STAFF PRESENT:
CALLED TO ORDER:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
REPORT OF LIBRARY DIRECTOR: Due to Mr. Gretchen's absence, Assistant Library
Director Elizabeth Russell presented Mr. Gretchen's portion of the meeting.
Statistics for February reflected an increase of 5% in circulation and 54% in new
registrations.
Two bibliographies prepared by the Children's Department were distributed.
A new video drop was recently installed to solve the problem of double videos
jamming the drop-in slot.
The recently re-bid lighting project has been awarded to Groves Electrical
Services with a bid of $27,870 and a completion time of 90 days.
NRHPL has requested membership in Texas Group, a resource-sharing project
sponsored by the Texas State Library. Direct interlibrary loan requests,
extended reference use and hard-to-find cataloging information will be
among the benefits from belonging to this network.
With the addition of a temporary part-time data entry clerk, the MARC
conversion project is 30% complete.
Following extensive review and discussion, Board endorsed the drafted library meeting
room policy with the addition of hours room are available for public use included in the
policy and space on each policy page for prospective users to sign indicating that they
have read the policy.
Mrs. Russell reported that she, Mark Gretchen, and Dawn Anderson recently toured
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possibility of project cooperation between BISD and NRHPL.
Following discussion of the proposed revisions to the Library Card Policy, the
consensus was to table this item until the next meeting.
Next meeting was scheduled for April 20, 1995. Meeting adjourned at 7:55 p.m.
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~~~ Brenda Lewis