The library board met last Thursday. I’ve highlighted some of the agenda items below.
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The board approved incorporating the Conference & Study Room Policy into our general meeting room policy. The additional language, which changes the weekly limit from four hours to one reservation, reads,”Individuals and groups may make an advanced reservation of library study rooms once per week. Subsequent use of the study rooms that week will be on a first-come, first-served basis”.
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The board approved Molly and I to attend the Public Library Association annual conference in Denver this April.
- Molly applied for a $2,500 Polk County Betterment grant to help digitize our local newspapers that are not yet available online. We hope to complete the project before the end of the fiscal year.
- After consolidating JPEG scans of individual yearbook pages into searchable PDFs, the Johnston High School yearbooks are finally available online. They can be found at https://archive.org/details/@johnston_public_library.
- Maryann Mori will be at the library in April to lead a community focus group. She will lead a similar information gathering meeting with library staff at our regular staff meeting in May.
- After several years of service, Carol Crane decided not to serve another term on the Foundation Board. Her position will be filled by Marcia Johnson. Marcia is currently a member of the Friends of the Library and has helped with Art In the Barn and Craft In the Barn in recent years. She’s a retired elementary school principal and makes a mean batch of cookies.