Mae S. Bruce Library

Mae S. Bruce Library Advisory Board Meeting Minutes of October 3, 2006

The meeting was called to order at 1:08 pm by Kim Holliday. The following board members were present:

Kim Holliday Linda Coyle Barbara Wells Sharon Tipton

Library Director Brenda B. Cheatham was also present. Kim introduced Sue Johnson. She is our nominee for the empty board member position. She has always been strong advocate for the library and will be a great asset to the board.

There were no changes or comments regarding the July 13th minutes. The motion to accept these minutes was made by Linda and seconded by Barbara. The minutes were approved by all.

Treasurer’s Report The year end Treasury report was discussed as it appeared in everyone’s copy of the Annual Report. The recent transactions include:

439.54 Previous Balance +20.00 Deposit correction -84.43 Flowers for Jack Long -48.13 Open House 326.98 Ending Balance FY05-06

Director’s Report 1. The first ever book signing at the library was a huge success. Doug Hiser, formerly from Santa Fe, had a constant flow of people buying books and having them autographed.. He sold out of every hardback copy he brought. 2. A reminder that the board members have folders in the workroom. Brenda puts any mail or notes in them. We need to get in the habit of checking them periodically. Old Business 1. The Open House went well although attendance was scarce. We did have 3 city officials come by before the council meeting. We also had 1 or 2 patrons stop in. 2. The annual Book Sale is scheduled for Nov 3 & 4. We set a rain date for Nov 10 & 11th. We will set up on the outside walkway. We will need some tables. Brenda will find out if we can use some city tables. Otherwise, Barbara has a few and we will ask around. The book sale will be listed on the Marquee and Linda will have it Library Board minutes, 4/9/2018, Page 2

put in the paper. Kim will get the signs ready. A planning meeting is set for Oct. 23 at 1pm.

3. The Galveston County Reads promotion will be starting in January for the book “Nickel and Dimed”. We are limited to how we can participate now that the meeting room is no longer available. Some suggested locations include the Webber Center, City Hall, or the Amegy Bank community room. Some event ideas include a Financial planner discussion or a speaker regarding budgeting. Brenda will pass along any information she receives from the area libraries.

New Business 1. Kim and Brenda attended the HALS meeting in September. There is a lot of new information for libraries on the www.hals.lib.tx.us website. The meeting focused on the upcoming budget changes. One item that is interest to the board is the “65 Reasons to Love your Library” campaign. On the TLA website there is a resource kit that includes posters, stickers, and much more. The website is www.txla.org/html/reasons. We can use some of the ideas for February’s Love Your library month and the 20th Anniversary of the building. We will discuss ideas at the book sale. 2. We need to begin planning the 20th Anniversary activities. For obvious reasons, an open house will not work. Maybe we need to think more about a birthday celebration. Brenda was thinking we could celebrate all year and promote expansion throughout the year at different events. 3. Policy revisions: a. The meeting room policy needs to be removed since we no longer have a meeting room that can be reserved. Linda made a motion to remove this policy and Barbara seconded the motion. All voted yes to remove the policy. b. The internet policy needs to be revised. We no longer need to have parental permission for children to use the internet. All computers are equipped with a filtering software that prohibits the search on certain questionable words. Deanna can turn off the filtering when needed. Sometime the software prohibits the entry of words that do not need to be filtered. A motion was made by Barbara to remove the permission slip statement from the policy. Linda seconded the motion. All approved the change to the policy.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:40 pm. The motion was made by Sharon, and seconded by Barbara. The next meeting has been set for January 9th at 12:30pm.