Minutes 10-24-14
CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH
Boynton Beach City Library
Library Advisory Board Minutes
October 24, 2014
The Library Advisory Board meeting was called to order at 4:05 p.m. by Chair Jeannie Taylor. All board members
were present. Assistant Library Director Anne Watts attended as well as Melissa, who is taking a Social Work
.
Policies and Prevention course. The minutes of the September 24, 2014 meeting were approved as distributed
Correspondence:
None.
Public Audience:
None.
Chair’s Report:
Jeannie mentioned she was excited to hear about the new AmeriCorps volunteers and that she
was sorry she missed meeting and welcoming our newest board member Debbie McHenry at the last meeting.
Unfinished Business:
Library Director, Craig Clark distributed the Over Drive e-books report for September 2014. The report shows that
Boynton’s Overdrive patrons checked out 429 items in September. The Unique Management Collection Services
report was also distributed to the board. The collection service has collected $8,354 dollars to date. In addition the
program has recovered over $17,250 in materials. We are sending between 70 and 80 accounts to the collection
agency monthly.
During the staffing update Craig stated that Meghan Hoffman, the new Children’s Librarian is doing well. A part-
time Library Aide was promoted to full time. Two pages recently hired are doing well and three other part-time
positions are being posted.
The Virtual Zone grand opening celebration is planned soon. The final version of the rules for the room and
equipment are being formulated. The room will have space for eight teens and the slots will be limited to two
hours. The staff expects full usage of the room and its equipment. The room will be available after school on
Monday through Thursday. At this time a lack of staff to monitor on Saturdays will prevent the room from being
used on weekends.
The Transparent Languages Database is up and running and provided access to 80 languages through the website.
English as a Second Language is included also.
New Business:
The Read for the Record program was held in the program room with 62 children attending. The
Mayor wore pink sequined bunny ears as he read the book, Bunny Cakes to the kids.
Library Director’s Report:
Craig distributed the monthly report for September 2014 and made note of some of
the statistics including a welcome increase in circulation. A discussion about circulation trends was held with a
point made regarding the drop from an average of 23,000 items added per year in 2005 to only 13,000 items added
currently. We should expect lower circulation due to the decreased amount of materials available to be circulated.
The free classes for Microsoft Office, Job Searching, and Photoshop are popular and drawing people to the library.
A copy of a published article regarding the Virtual Zone was distributed.
The next Library Board meeting is December3, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. in the program room. The meeting was
adjourned and most members stayed to watch the annually required Ethics Training video.
Valerie Pleasanton, Secretary