Present: Mary Farwell, Chairperson; Mary Leger, Secretary; Mac Broderick, Treasurer; Heather Shumway, Director.
Secretary's Report: Corrected CIP HVAC amount requested to $105,536. Approved and filed.
Treasurer's Report: Approved and filed.
Director's Report: Attached.
Unfinished Business:
New Business:
Items We Are Tracking:
Next Meeting January 10, 2005 9:00 AM
Correspondence:
Eric Masterson, Vice-President of Development for the Audubon Society of New Hampshire wrote to thank us for our donation of books to the Audubon Society for their book sale. We allowed the Audubon to have the first pick of our left over books at the end of our book sale.
Kristina Aaronson, Henniker Community School librarian, and frequent library user wrote a delightful email after our first library book discussion noting how much she enjoyed it and that she was planning to be a regular member.
Circulation:
Circulation numbers for November look strong. We continue to add new borrowers daily. Lee Ann and I are working to create a new cardholder's packet for all new patrons. Each packet will include information about the library's resources and programs.
Staff:
One of the topics we covered in this month's staff meetings was the database Novelist and Novelist K-8, both are made available through the NH State Library. Jeff has created a new full page dedicated to our online databases on our webpage to allow for easier access to all of our materials we have available.
Our volunteer, Jane Potter is continuing her work with Rosanne to identify which series we have in our fiction collection and which items in each series we may be missing.
I have begun working on weeding the young adult non-fiction. This will help me to identify the areas we need to update as well as create space to place a number of the books which are currently in the YA reference. Once I have created space, I will separate the YA reference materials into regular reference to be interfiled with the adult reference and regular circulating materials for YA nonfiction. In addition, we will interfile YA nonfiction videos with the YA nonfiction books, similar to the adult nonfiction videos. We will also be creating a new collection code which will be circulating reference. This will allow the materials that would be useful for patrons to use at home to be circulated for one week at a time, rather than staying in the reference room. These materials will be interfiled with the reference materials so as to be available for ready reference.
Jeff Scott attended two workshops at the state library this past month. They were hosted and sponsored by the state library and presented by New Horizons of Nashua on Relational Database Design and Microsoft Access 2003. Jeff learned how to create a database that could then be used in Access.
Programs:
Our first library book discussion group was a great success with eight attendees at our first meeting and a great discussion.
The Feature Film series continues to have a low attendance, but relatively regular attendees. As this is a low-cost program, we will continue to provide it with continued advertising.
Children's Department:
The NH State Ladybug Award for children's books was a fantastic success this year with participation occurring at the elementary school, local preschools and here at our storytimes. We submitted 154 votes, our top choice being Knufflebunny, one of the younger titles entered.
The Children's Holiday party was also a fantastic success with about 75 children attending to have breakfast with Santa and create fun crafts. Kiwanis will again be generously sponsoring our program.
Building Maintenance:
We have a roof leak that appears to be caused by a separation in the flashing next to the furnace chimney. As it is a very slow leak, I have been waiting for the town to hire a new building maintenance employee to fix it, rather than hire a contractor.
John Karpinski completed his final walk-through and signed off on the HVAC installation. It continues to be rather toasty in the library at times, although I have been working with the thermostats to find a happy medium where we are comfortable and not wasting oil.
Our shelving quote came through from EMC Installations. Ed informed me that he was able to order our steel framing but will need to order our end-panels separately after the holidays when the company reopens.