HomeMy WebLinkAboutLIB 2007-11-15 MinutesMINUTES OF THE LIBRARY BOARD
OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS
HELD IN THE LIBRARY BOARD ROOM
LOCATED AT 6720 NORTHEAST LOOP 820
November 15, 2007
Present
Kay Schmidt
David Nelson
Mary Shilcutt
Don Tipps
Avis Crisp
Mike Madar
Jane Birkes
Kathy Antropik
Chair
Vice-Chair
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Alternate
Staff Members
Steve Brown
Kelly Preston
Library Director
Administrative Secretary
Mr. Steve Brown introduced Mr. Jared Miller, Assistant City Manager, to the Board prior
to the meeting.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Kay Schmidt called the meeting to order November 15, 2007 at 6:02 p.m.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Minutes of the October 25, 2007 meeting were approved as written.
LIBRARY DIRECTOR'S REPORT
Mr. Steve Brown updated the Board on the following:
North Richland Hills Library is participating in the statewide TexShare program again
this year. Databases licensed by TexShare offer thousands of articles from verifiable
sources for an annual cost of $1,750. The annual subscription would ordinarily cost
$179,761.
Staff began tracking database usage in October, and is in the process of developing a
monthly report on the usage of electronic resources at the Library.
The City recently completed the 2007 Citizen Survey. 59% percent of the respondents
said they had used the library in the past year. Of those respondents who had used the
library, 58.2% rated the services as excellent, 37.1 % good, 4.6% fair and 0% poor.
Tom Fleming announced his retirement as Counselor for SCORE in December.
Councilman John Lewis will serve as the new counselor.
Kevin Carrothers was selected to fill the Reference Librarian position. He will begin
work on November 29, 2007.
UPDATE ON LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION
Substantial completion of the new library is now scheduled for mid to late January,
2008. The painting of the interior was re-scheduled due to expected rain and there not
being any windows installed yet.
The roof is complete, and most of the network cable is installed. Air conditioners will be
running within the next two weeks.
The bid for moving the library was $31,986, approximately $25,000 less than expected.
Furnishings are scheduled to be delivered at the beginning of February. The target date
for closing the Library is February 11th. The Library will remain closed approximately
six weeks and will reopen at the end of March, 2008.
City Council awarded the contract for the RFID project to 3M. Mr. David Nelson
volunteered to assist with tagging the collection. Ms. Jane Birkes said she will ask the
senior residents at Franklin Park if they would like to volunteer their time to the RFID
project.
3M is upgrading the RFID tags that will be used to identify our books to a 2,048 byte
chip at no cost.
City Council awarded the bid for 107 new computers at the Library.
DISCUSSION FOR CHANGING LENGTH OF LOAN PERIODS
Mr. Steve Brown said 78% of Texas libraries have two week loan periods, but most
libraries in the DFW area have three week loan periods.
It was the consensus of the Board to increase the loan periods for fiction movies from 3
days to 7 days, and 14 days to 21 days for all other items. The new loan periods will go
into effect when the new library opens.
LIBRARY BOARD MEMBER REPORTS
Chair Kay Schmidt asked the Board if they would like to plan a Christmas luncheon for
Library staff this year. Steve suggested a luncheon in February during the move. Ms.
Kathy Antropik suggested bringing cookies and snacks each week throughout the
month of December.
Chair Kay Schmidt asked about the plans for putting a time capsule in the new library
building. Steve said the time capsule will be put inside the wall over the fireplace.
A discussion on the size and contents of the capsule followed.
NEXT MEETING DATE
The next Library Board meeting will be Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in the
Library Board Room.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 7:10 p.m.
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Kay idt, Chair
ATTEST:
Kelly Preston, Administrative Secretary