Newport Library Board of Trustees

Meeting Minutes

Wednesday March 21, 2007

Present: Curt Fewkes, Wyma Rogers, Carol Fisher, Cindy McConnell, Richard Kilbride and Kay Eldon (secretary)

The meeting was called to order at 5:20 by Curt Fewkes.

Minutes from the last Board meeting were moved to be approved by Carol and seconded by Cindy. Minutes were approved.

Librarian’s report (see attached): The new sign for the Fishermen’s Library at Englund Marine was passed around. Wyma explained what Leadership Lincoln was for those Board members who didn’t know about it. Wyma then gave a brief description of Leadership Lincoln and encouraged Board members to participate if they had not already done so. The next topic highlighted was the Downloadable Audio book program that CRSN will participate in starting July 1st. National Library Week activities were announced and all Board members were encouraged to come to Coffee With The City. Bridges to Literacy is helping to bring the Young Adult author Tamara Pierce to Newport Library. Ms Pierce will be doing several programs in the schools, then a program at the Library.

The wish list flyer will be going out in the PUD bills in July. These should reach about 4000 people.

Wyma then spent some time explaining about the “problem patrons” that the library staff had been dealing with during the past several weeks. But on an end-note it has been determined that the new cell phone policy seems to be working.

Budget request (see attached).

Wyma explained a little about “library 2.0”, including MySpace and Second Life.

Statistics: Circulation has been down but computer use continues to go up. This led to a brief discussion about the differences between Macs and PCs.

Policy Manual corrections (see attached). The Board was asked especially to look at the new list under Prohibited Conduct. Cindy moved to accept the corrections, Curt seconded. All approved.

The Board meeting was adjourned at 6:05.