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Minutes
Englewood Public Library Board
June 9, 1998
The meeting of the Englewood Public Library Board was called to order by Chairperson,
Bervette Williams, at 7:22 p.m.
PRESENT: M. Dounay, S. O 'Leary, S. Smithers, B. Williams , L. Parkinson, and Youth
Member, Mike Heberling
REGRETS: M. Giffin and Council Member L. Clapp
ALSO PRESENT: Pat Jurgens, Automated Services Librarian, Hank Long, Library Director,
and Joan Clayton , Recording Secretary.
·8-10 Motion: That the minutes of the Library Board meeting of May 12, 1998 be accepted
as amended to read , "less than 1/101
h of 1 %."
Moved by: Mary Dounay
Seconded by: Shannon O'Leary
The motion passed with 5 Ayes.
Ms . Williams reported that the Friends of the Library Book Sale had been very successful. A
brief report was handed out to those present reflecting a profit of $3,900. As of meeting time
there was a large amount of books still left to be picked up by some charitable entity. The next
meeting of the Friends is Wed., June 24 at All For The Better Ice Cream Store.
There was no report from the book discussion group. Due to lack of contact it was decided to
drop this report from future agendas , until such time as there is contact with this group.
Ms. Dounay reported that the Save the Bookmobile Committee had met with Mary Lou Tatum,
outreach services librarian. The Committee designated that $500 was to be given to the
Summer Reading Program for books to be used as rewards for those participating in the
Summer Program. In addition the Committee designated that $500 be given for use in
programming on the Bookmobile this summer. Ms. Tatum will be in charge of implementing
the use of this money .
• s . O 'Leary reported on the Cultural Arts Commission . A new statue , entitled Ch!ld of Peace
will be placed in the Plaza at the Summer Concert Thursday , June 11. Statues will be placed
in the Plaza to be rotated every 4 months as part of the Art in the Parks program . A piece of
art had been placed in Roman's Park recently and it had been vandalized within 48 hours . A
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Discussion ensued regarding Art in the Parks and the security of these pieces. Ms. O'Leary •
went on to say that Ms. Habenicht will be in charge of this year's Holiday Parade, set for Sat.,
Nov. 7. There is no theme for the parade at this time.
There was a brief discussion regarding the statistics from Bookmobile stops. It was noted that
the numbers would vary according to Field Days, end of the year activities at the schools and
teacher workdays .
A question was asked regarding reference questions answered by phone and could this be
monitored. Mr. Long said not at this time.
Mr. Long reported on letters that had been sent to companies who could have "Smart Card"
options for the Library to consider. As of the meeting's date Mr. Long had received 1 e-mail
and two companies had sent generic information regarding requests for information
concerning "Smart Cards". At this time there is no information to evaluate. This report led into
a discussion among those present concerning the upcoming meeting with the City Council on
Monday, June 15 . All present indicated that they would be at the study session to discuss with
Council their feelings and opinions regarding Internet and how it is going at Englewood
Library. It was stated that this would be the first time that Council had heard from the Library
Board first hand as to their views regarding the Internet. Board Members were preparing a
summary of events leading up to the present which would give Council an overview of what
has been done regarding Internet concerns.
Ms. Jurgens was asked to report about incidents surrounding the Internet and inappropriate
sites. Ms. Jurgens said that she had met with each reference staff member individually and
asked him or her 3 questions: 1.) How many inappropriate images had they personally seen
since Jan., 1998; 2.) How many people had they had contact with regarding inappropriate
sites and 3.) How many patrons had they had to ask to leave the Library due to inappropriate
sites. The staff reported that a total of 6 images had been left on terminal screens; of these, 3
images were on a terminal where the screen was not easily visible to the reference staff. That
terminal has since been moved and there have been no further incidents. 1 image was left on
the filtered Children's terminal and 2 others on adult terminals. In all there had been 4
instances of contact with patrons who had been asked to leave inappropriate sites; a group of
teenage girls on the filtered Children's terminal, several young teens and 2 adult males. All of
those patrons had complied without problems. No one had been asked to leave the Library.
The problems do not seem to be inappropriate sites but the noise, crowd control and the
signing up for terminal use .
No one present felt that the concern of access to pornographic sites is not a legitimate one.
But there does not seem to be an overwhelming problem of accessing these sites in this
library.
Mr. Parkinson asked about the possible move to the Foley's building. He wanted to know
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where the Library would be located in the building. Mr. Long responded that he understood •
that due to weight load the Library would probably be on the first floor.
Mr. Long reminded those present about the upcoming Tent Talk scheduled for Thursday, June
18 at Cushing Park.
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Ms. Smithers said she is going to be working 1 day per month at Merritt House, a bed
breakfast located at 1th & Ogden. This business is owned by Cathy Kuykendall , past
Chamber of Commerce president.
Ms . Jurgens mentioned that the Summer Reading Program begins on Friday, June 12. She
also is looking forward t o a visit with her 10-year-old granddaughter next month .
M r. Heberling said he will be working at Clayton School with the "I Read Program ". The
program will be bringing the students to the Library on Thursday mornings.
Ms. Clayton said that last month she had news about her son, Dan being accepted to medical
school and that this month her news was Dan had gotten married!
Mr. Long thanked the Board for all of their support.
Ms. Williams said she had turned on her computer recently only to have a screen saver come
on the said ,''H i, Grandma & Grandpa, how about some money?" Her grandson had been using
her computer and left her the message .
• There being no further bus iness the meeting was adjourned at 9:25 p.m.
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