2000-03-28City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: March 28, 2000 7:00 P.M.
Place: Beverly Public Library ~
Board members present: Diane Costa, Edward Brindle, Lindsay Diehl, Katherine Fanning, Neil
Olson, Kevin O'Reilly, Joanne Panunzio, Helga Senko, and John Young
Board members absent:
Others present: Thomas Scully, Anna Langstaff
Recorder: Anna Langstaff
John Young presided.
Edward Brindle made the motion, seconded by Diane Costa, to accept the minutes of February
22, 2000 as read. Motion passed.
Election of Officers
Diane Costa nominated John Young as Chair. John Young nora'mated Diane Costa as Secretary.
There being no other nominations, the Secretary cast one vote in the affirmative for the slate of
officers as nominated. Motion passed.
John Young appointed the following committees:
Personnel: Lindsay Diehi, Chair, Joanne Pantmzio, Helga Senko, Nell Olson.
Finance: Edward Brindle, Chair, Neff Olson, Kay Fanning, Kevin O'Reilly.
Administration: Kevin O'Reilly, Chair, Lindsay Diehi, Helga Senko, Joanne Panunzio.
Long Range Planing: Diane Costa, Chair, Edward Brindle, Lindsay Diehi, Kay Fanning, Neil
Olson, Kevin O'Reilly, Joanne Pantmzio, Helga Senko, John Young.
Public Presentation
None
Committee Reports
Personnel: No report.
Administration: No report.
Finance: Finance Committee will meet Tuesday, April 4 at 6:00 P.M. at the Farms Library to
discuss FY2001 budget. This will be followed by a full Board meeting at 6:30 P.M.
Long Range Planning: No report. ,
Report of the Library Director
1) Copies of the Library Directur*s report (on file with these minutes) were mailed to trustees. 2)
Book Theft: Tom Seully reported on theft of 451 books, worth approximately $7,100.
Communications
1) John Young received e-mail from Rep. Cahill continuing that he signed bill. 2) John Young
received a letter from MBLC informing him that the City (library) received $213.47 as part of
the FY2000 municipal equalization grant.
Unfinished Business
None
New Business
1 ) Nancy Robinson: Diane Costa asked if the Trustees wanted to make a donation in Nancy
Robinson's memory. 2) Sheila Glowackj: Sheila Glowacki, former assistant director at the
Beverly Public Library, is returning to Ohio. 3) Keyin McGrath: Lindsay Diehl praised Keyin
McGrath, part-time reference librarian. 4) Letter to the Editor: John Young will write a letter to
the Salem Evening News to rebut letter that criticized Farms Library building project. 5) Book
Sale: Saturday, May 6 9AM - 5PM, Sunday, May 7 1PM - 4PM.
The next regular meeting of the Board will be Tuesday, April 25, 2000 at 7:00 P.M. at the Main
Library.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:00 P.M.
LIBRARY DIRECTOR'S REPORT
March 28, 2000
Beverly Farms Branch Library - Fund raising continues for the Faxms renovation project. RFP's
for landscape architects have been returned. The Farms Project Committee is reviewing the
submittals by three landscape architects and will schedule interviews with the three firms. The Fund
Raising Committee has received a grant of $50,000 over three yeas from the Rantout Foundation.
Dawn Goodwin, Community Development Administrator, has suggested we apply for Community
Development Block Grant program for the cost of the elevator, which would amount to about
$65,000. If we can get the CDBG money, that would put us at $715,000 in pledged funds.
Mayor ScanIon has also included the City' s matching $1,500,000 into the City Capital Plan for Fiscal
2002. This is not a guarantee of the tOohey as we would still have to convince the Mayor and City
Council to vote the funds at the appropriate time, but the project is now officially on the capital
improvements list.
Sheila Glowacki - Sheila. who was formerly our Assistant L~"orary Director and now is a pan-time
Reference Librarian, is returning to her home town and taking a job in the Youngstown (Ohio) Public
Library. Sheila was interim Director after the death of my predecessor, Esther Calish and she and I
collaborated on the construction grant that funded the Main Library renovation project. Most
recently she has been Director of the Topsfield Public Library.
Technology - The staff is becoming more acclimated to our new catalog and circulation sot~vare.
We will soon be training on a upgraded version of that software which will offer some new features.
Although we have more than doubled the number of public Internet terminals there are still lines. We
have also given 4 more staff members computers on their desks. Virtually every full time staff
member has their own PC at their desk.
We will also be working on projects to expand the information from our on-line catalog with direct
links from school reading and assignment lists to the catalog.