LIB 11-10-2015City of Cupertino
Library Commission
Special Meeting
November 10, 2015
MEETING MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER
At 7:04 pm Chair Ho called the meeting to order at Cupertino City Hall, 10300
Torre Avenue, Cupertino in Conference Room C Cupertino.
ROLL CALL
Commissioners: Jerry Liu, Annie Ho, Rose Grymes
City/County Library Staff: Carol Atwood, Nidhi Mathur, Nancy Howe,
Gayathri Kanth
Absent: Ann Stevenson, Gopal Kumar
Guests: Michelle Huey, Acting Virtual Services Manager
1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Commissioner Grymes motioned to approve the minutes of the regular
meeting of October 7, 2015. Chair Ho seconded. Motion passed unanimously.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
None
2. REPORTS
Staff Report – Carol Atwood introduced herself and discussed transition of the Commission to Recreation and Community Services. Nidhi thanked the Commission for the time she acted as liaison. Commissioners thanked her for her years of service to the Commission. Cupertino Community Librarian Report- Gayathri reviewed submitted report.
County Librarian Report – Nancy Howe reviewed submitted report.
Friends of the Library Report- No written report submitted
Cupertino Library Foundation Report-Written report was submitted by Eno
Schmidt
Calendar Review- discussed having the City’s Sustainability group present to
Commission next month. Would also like to rotate meeting location to other
City facilities (Senior Center and new EEC).
REPORTS
A. Commissioner Reports
Commissioner Liu attended the Mayor’s meeting. Mayor impressed
that new books get into the library catalogue very quickly. Talked
about traffic, public safety,planning, Parks & Rec and Technology
Information and Communication Commissions. Commissioner shared
the increased number of cards issued at the Library.
Invited the children’s librarian to staff a booth at Lincoln Elementary;
educating teachers that the library resources are for them and students;
discussed working in conjunction with the City and schools and
library on programming.
Commissioner Grymes proposed language has been incorporated into
the General Plan.
Chair Ho shared there are foundations that will give free bi-lingual
books to schools. Schools only have minimum budget for books.
OLD BUSINESS
1- Presentation – Michelle Huey, Acting Virtual Services Manager,
reported that customers can now check out e- books via the
catalogue using Overdrive and Cloud Library. Customers can
check out up to 12 books per vendor and read across devices by
connecting via a bookmark. In FY 14/15 there has been a
72% increase in e-book usage.
2- 2015 Work Plan
3- Poet Laureate – no update
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 8:44 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted by,
Carol Atwood, Director of Recreation and Community Services
Minuted approved at the 1/6/16 regular meeting.