08-05-1993Library Board meeting notes for Aug. 5, 1993 Russell
Musick, Jeanne Scheve, Paul Emmerich,and Anne Keenan were
in attendance.
Bills in the amount of 3,783.03 were read and approved by
the board.
Anne Keenan announced that we had $220.74 left in the
Library Book Budget.
The Annual and the monthly report were submitted to the
Board. Circulation has increased by 3,726 for the
1992 -1993 year.
The 1993 -1994 library budget has been approved by the City
Council. Final approval will not be made by the City
Council until the end of Aug. Rodney Storm called a Dept.
head meeting to tell departments to hold on spending until
the budget meets with final approval.
Anne Keenan received word that the Library will not
receive a phone grant from the NLC.
Latter Day Saints are now going to be permanent
missionaries in Blair. They are looking for community
service projects to perform. Anne has suggested that they
use the computer to set up an index of marriages and
obituaries from the Blair newspapers. Paul Emmerich has
created a file to record this information.
Anne showed pictures taken by MB Hunt of the summer
reading project.
Anne mentioned that the frames given in memory of Bill
Beaumont have arrived and will be hung in the meeting
room. They will display local children's art through the
school year.
Anne showed the board an article from the Omaha World
Herald (7- 31 -93) Midlands edition, pgs 15 -17.
about Omaha Public Library Director Lon Dickerson. In
this article Dickerson says that legislation expected to
be introduced in the next session will call for a regional
library service for Washington and Sarpy County. Anne
spoke to Dick Allen of the Nebraska Library Commission.
Dickerson said he was misquoted in the article and was
referring to the new legislation being introduced to the
Legislature on creating regional libraries if they wanted
to. There is no question of the BPL becoming a part of
the OPL System.
The Board Meeting was adjourned at 5:30.
Meeting cancelled.
August 5, 1993
September 6, 1993