1999-04-27 City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: April 27, 1999 6:30 P.M.
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Diane Costa, Edward Brindle, Lindsay Diehl, Katherine Fanning, Neil
Olson, Kevin O'Reilly, and John Young
Board members absent: Joanne Panunzio, Helga Senko
Others present: Thomas Scully, Anna Langstaff
Recorder: Anna Langstaff
John Young presided.
Neil Olson made the motion, seconded by Kay Fanning, to accept the minutes of March 23, 1999
as read. Motion passed.
Public Presentation
None
Committee Reports
Personnel: Neil Olson reported that the evaluation process of the Library Director has begun.
Completed forms should be mailed to Nell Olson by May 15.
Administration: No report.
Finance: No report.
Long Range Planning: No report.
Report of the Library_ Director
1) Copies of the Library Director's report (on file with these minutes) were mailed to trustees. 2)
Budget: Budget meeting with Mayor probably won't be until mid or late May.
Communications
1) Fund Raising Seminar: John Young and Michelc Mann artended a fundraising seminar on
March 27, 1999.
Unfinished Business
1) Budget: Tom Scully reviewed underfunded budget items. 2) Flood: Bid has been put out for
the installation of an underground pump on the Dane Street side of the library building.
New Business
None
Public Presentation
None
Trustees were invited to attend the Young Adult Poetry Contest/Reading which followed this
meeting.
The next meeting of the Board will be Tuesday, May 25, 1999 at 7:00 P.M. at the Main Library.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 6:55 P.M.
LIBRARY DIRECTOR'S REPORT
April 27, 1999
Circulation continues to grow over the same time period last year.
The Young Adult Poetry Contest program will occur following this meeting and sign-ups for
the Mystery Writers Workshop are coming in from all over New England. Our Monday Moming
program for senior citizens will culminate this year in a guided bus tour of the North Shore' s Gold
Coast. Demand for that program is running ahem of capacity already. The Farms Library conducted
a Rain Forest Reptile Show for children on Thursday of last week.
On Saturday, April 10, I and Keyin McGrath, Dr. Keith Manville and Dean Eastman of
Beverly High School made a presentation to the New England Archivists Annual Meeting about the
collaboration between the library and Beverly High on history projects. Our program was easily the
most enthusiastically received of the day. The keynote speaker, interestingly enough, who has
assumed a job with the United States National Archives, just left her job as archivist for the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees where she and her staff had been working closely with
the War Crimes Tribunal now prosecuting war criminals from the war in Bosnia. She shared some
insights into the task ahead for her former colleagues in Kosovo.
On last Thursday, we made our first call on a potential donor to the Farms building project.
More appointments are being scheduled for upcoming weeks. On Saturday, Kerry Healey and I will
be attending a workshop on fund raising in Palmer sponsored by the Massachusetts Board of Library
Commissioners.