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LIB 12-17-96 CUI~ERTINO LI~RARY COMI~IISSION MINUTES December 17, 1996 CALL TO ORDER The meeting was coiled to order by Chairperson Mary Minow at 7:30 pm. ROLL CALL Present: Jean Bedord Jillian HAmer Charles Liggett Mary Minow Charles Pow Also present: Susan Fuller, Santa Clara County Librarian Mary-Ann Wallace, City Librarian MINUTES Minutes of the November 19, 1996 meeting were approved as written. ORAI, COMMUNICATION None WRITTEN COMMUNICATION None NEW BUSINESS None OLD BUSINESS Use of Community Room as a group study room: reagendized to the January meeting. Librarian Wallace reported on the results of a survey taken in the children's room that showed little public interest in an after school homework center at the library. Commissioners asked Librarian Wallace to report on community room usage with a special emphasis on daytime and particularly afternoon usage at the next meeting. They also requested that she ask a city staffperson with a knowledge of structural engineering to look at the library c0mmtmity room with a view towards replacing walls with glass to see if this is something that is possible to be done. Ideas to improve use of space at the library: commissioners shared ideas on possible reorganization of the current library space. Home Page: Commissioner Pow reported on progress with both the City Home Page from his discussions with city staff member Steve Toler and the process and draft plan by which students at Homestead High School will work on developing a Web Page for the Library Commlssion. Both Steve Toler and Homestead Teacher Angela E.Lih have approved the process proposed by Commissioner Pow. Commissioner Pow will check on how long the students may work on the project, and once completed, how the commission will arrange to keep it updated on a regular basis. Commissioners also discussed links from the library and from the city to the library commission web page and vice versa, as well as hot links to the Friends and to the Foundation. Reminder to commissioners from Bill Mannion that there will be a telecommunications workshop at the Q]~iulan Center in February. Art Grant: Chairperson Minow has an application from the Fine Arts Commission for an art contest or art scholarship through the schools that will be publicized on the web, which may or may not be applicable to the type of web graphic art that will be done for the Commission Home Page. Commissioner Pow will investigate this for the commission Library Foundation: There will be no December meeting. Next Foundation meeting will be Wednesday, January 15, 1997 at 5:30 pm at the library. The Foundation's newest member is lawyer Denise Schultz. The Foundation grants committee did meet and has proposed several possible grant projects to the Board. Friends of the Library: The next Friends Book Sale is set for February 15 and 16, 1997. The dates for the three 1997 Friends Book Sales have been set. The Friends are sponsoring a springtime bus trip to the new San Francisco Public Library along with the Cupertino Senior Center. No date has been set as yet for the trip. MayoFs Bre~lrt~ast: There was no Mayor's breakfast. Calendar update: The Friends Book Sale date was added. CityNet: No report. Chairperson Minow will work on the annual report for the next Commission meeting. CITY LIBRARIAN'S REPORT Attached. COUNTY LIRRARIAN'S REPORT The question of the library's Internet usage policy has come up recently due to a challenge received in Morgan Hill, and will be discussed at the January JPA meeting. The library's Internet usage is without filters. The library does not police Internet usage. There are first amendment issues and legal issues, as well as personal responsibility issues involved. The library and the San Jose Mercury News will be jointly holding symposi~ms in the month of March on internet usage in the library. Besides stsfffrom the San Jose Mercury News, st~ff from the Tech Center Museum, the Center for Applied l~thics at Santa Clara University, Common Ground, and Smart Valley are also participating. At the JPA meeting on January 23, 1997, we will be welcoming 4 new JPA Board Members out of a total of 11 members. The quarterly JPA meetings are held on the 4th Thursday from 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm at the Quinlan Center except for the f~ll meeting location, which rotates smong the member libraries. COMMISSIONERS' COMMENTS and AGENDA BUILrHNG: Commissioner Liggett announced that this would be his last meeting, as he is going offthe commission after serving for 6 years. Commission interviews will be held before the January meeting. All present thanked him for his excellent service. The tee'ms of commissioners Minow and Pow are also up in January. Currently, both are planning to re-apply. The commission's Annual Report will be agendized for the next meeting. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned to Tuesday, January 21, 1997 at 7:30 pm Respectfully submitted, Mary-Ann Wallace Community Library Supervisor Cupertino Library - CupeL-Gno Librarian's Report 12-17- 96 November Progrnm~: Children: # of Programa Attendance Ages 1.1/2 - 2.1/2 Ages 2.1/2 - 3.1/2 Ages 3.1/2 - 6 Ages 3 - 8 129 / 33 average 160 / 80 average 70 / 23 average 155 / 38 average Class visits Sedgwick Bethel Lutheran 3 93 / 31 average 3rd and 4th grades Kindergarten Adults: Library Tours 11/20 Library Tour for City Hall Staff 31 attendees 24 attendees November Gate Count(# of visits to library) November Reference (# of questions) Total reference questions A: 5,626 40,194 J: 3,706 9,332 Children: Homework survey in the Children's Room indicated little interest in any type of homework center at the library. Adults: Sunday Service Hours survey results pointed up 2 p.m to 4 p.m. as the most useful time, followed by 12 noon to 2 p.m., and then 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Very few respondents indicated 10 a.m to 12 noon to be a useful time for them to use the library. Commissioners received copies of.' Winter / Spring Bookmobile Schedule revised Phone Renew9l~ Anytime Winter Break in Storytimes flyer All of which are available at the library. In addition, Commissioners received the Sunday Service statistics, copies of the Homework Survey, the Sunday Library Service Hours Survey, and inforl-ation on a proposed Friends / Senior Center trip to the San Francisco Public Library. The Cupertlno Host Lions Club has donated $250 to the library via the Foundation, specifically for the purchase of materials for people with sight impahments. The library thanks the Cupertino Host Lions Club, and is using the money to add $250 in large type books to its collection.