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LibraryBoard | 2015-11-18 | 3 | Page 3 of 4 Minutes of the Alameda Free Library Board November 18, 2015 Meeting NEW BUSINESS A. City Email Accounts for Board and Commission Members (J. Chisaki) Management in the City want to move toward all Boards and Commissions having city email accounts, which would assist gathering information for Public Records Act requests. There will be some training on how it the system works and will be implemented in different stages. Director Chisaki suspects the Library will be at a later stage. B. Circulation Trends (J. Chisaki) Director Chisaki explained the various charts and graphs of the circulation trends report. Director Chisaki is pleased with the direction of the trends as numbers are either staying the same or increasing. C. Alameda Free Library Foundation (J. Chisaki) The Friends and Foundation had a joint meeting and are moving toward the merge. Both groups are looking for members to be on the Executive Board. The merge committee has been meeting with an attorney for help on the new bylaws. They have started the process to dissolve the 501(c) status for the Foundation and moving the funds into the Friends accounts. The Executive Board will set the meeting calendar which determines how often they will meet. The Foundation's last concert of the season is on November 21 at the Rhythmix Cultural Works, and is sold out. D. Friends of the Alameda Free Library (J. Chisaki) The Friends had their book sale and netted approximately $20,000. Director Chisaki noted that the Friends need help on the Sunday of the book sale to clean up and box up left over books. The Friends voted on and approved the staff request for program funding in the amount of approximately $41,000. E. Patron Suggestions/Comments (Speak-Outs) and Library Director's Response A patron requested more books by Margaret Frazer. The response informed the patron that we currently own six titles and the latest book was published in 2012. Since the series is so old, the Library will not be purchasing more to complete the series. Two options include checking out from the San Francisco Library or purchasing from Amazon Kindle. A patron requested more Playaway books and headphones to go along with them. The response was that the library is looking for more titles, but unfortunately are very expensive and are not always available. | LibraryBoard/2015-11-18.pdf |