North Liberty Community Library
Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
June 15, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

President Shawn Selch called the meeting to order at 7:00pm at the North Liberty City Council Chambers, 25 W. Cherry St.

Board members present were: Shawn Selch, Melissa Murphy, Shalome Tonelli, Peggy Waters, Cindy Diouf, and Library Director Dee Crowner. John Henk was absent with prior notice.

Approval of Agenda:
None

Public Comment:
None.

Approval of Minutes:
A motion to approve the June minutes as written was made, seconded and approved unanimously.

Reports:

Budget – Jenny Garner:
As much as possible will be spent by end of year.

Youth and Teen Services – Andrew Frisbie:
The kick-off for the Summer Reading Program will be May 19th at Hills Bank from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. The first program will be tongue painting, where you paint pictures (paint made with corn syrup and kool-aid) with your tongue.

The 10:00am toddler time is being moved to 10:00am Fridays.

They are already thinking ahead to next year’s Summer Reading Program. They are looking at changing the time or the day for the daycare due to the increased interest so more kids.

Adult Services – Elaine Reitz:
The book sale is going very well.

Adult Summer Reading Program starts on June 16th at 6:00pm. The first program will be a presentation by May and her human. May used to be a service dog and has “written” an autobiography of her experiences. The door prize will be a gift certificate from Petland. On July 7th will be an adult spelling bee, and on July 23rd will be trivia night. This is back by popular demand from last year.

The finale will be a potluck when they will give all the prizes away.

Assistant Director – Jennie Garner:
Jennie is meeting with people from Workforce Development, plus John Lohman from the Corridor Business Journal regarding collaborating on a career station at the library. Hopefully it will be set up sometime between September and October. Workforce Development will be donating a computer, with no software, for this. Then we would write a grant to get the software.

The expansion meetings are almost done. David will be doing follow-up meetings, and Dee is presenting to several clubs. The response is very encouraging and positive, when she was asked how the meetings are going. There are concerns due to the economy.

Director – Dee Crowner:
The library got three summer interns this year. There were two from North Central Junior High, and one from Kirkwood. The two from North Central each work 10 hours a week. This is a program that Bill Freeney, who is the counselor there, started last year. This runs the same six weeks as the summer reading program. The work experience intern worked 30 hours. She was an intern from North Central last year.

Dee was approached by a patron to donate his house to the library in his will.

The library will be buying three databases this year to use up the money. The databases will be; Tumblebooks, Ebcsohost and get Consumer Reports back.

Dee has talked to folks about the Iowa City Book Festival. The University is actually doing it. This is a first time thing and will be on Saturday, July 18th. There will be authors and activities going on. There will be a children’s tent set up so we will be over there from 4pm – 7pm and do storytelling and crafts, and stuff. Next year, hopefully they will be able to involve the adults and not just the kids.

The library will be closed on July 3rd and 4th.

Grace Community Church is doing community service work on August 9th, so Dee would like to have them clean down the library; like dust down tables and chairs and so on.

Emily and Melanie finished their public library courses, so are now state certified librarians.

Friends
Friends didn’t meet this month. They will contribute to the booth at the Johnson County Fair, and Birdies for Charity is going on.

Policy Review:
Collection Development – Waters moved and Murphy seconded that the Collection Development Policy be approved as rewritten and approved unanimously.

Old Business:
Expansion Committee – David hopes to have the feasibility study done by the end of July.

Internet/Personal Computer Policy – Murphy moved and Waters seconded that the Internet/Personal Computer Policy be approved with the suggested corrections and approved unanimously.

New Business:
Sex Offender Policy – There was much discussion about this issue. A procedure was suggested to put in place by July 1st. This would be approved by the board and go through the city attorney for approval.

A committee was suggested to be set up with a member from all city departments so the policy would be citywide, and input by the city attorney.

Gender Equity on Boards – Didn’t pass through the council. It was rewritten that to make sure that committees watch gender equity when possible.

Closed Session:

Adjournment:
It was moved and seconded to adjourn and approved unanimously. The meeting was adjourned.