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SCHERTZ PUBLIC LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING
September 12, 2016
Members Present: Bobbie Boyce, Joanne Ward, Melissa Uhlhorn, Sandy Keiser, Neota Brady, Carol Cyr,
Patti Paulson, Patti Dilworth, Ruth Tienor, Brian James, Dawn Figueras, Cindy Vigil
Visitor: None
Hearing of Residents: None
Call to Order: Patti Dilworth called the meeting to order at 6:32 pm.
Regular Agenda:
1. Minutes: Consideration and/or action regarding the approval of the minutes of June 6, 2016 -
Ruth moved to accept minutes as written, Sandy seconded the motion. Motion carried, the
June 6th minutes were approved.
2. Treasurer’s Report: consideration and/or action regarding the approval of the July 2016
Treasurer’s Report. Ruth moved to accept Treasure’s Report, Neota seconded the motion.
Treasurer’s Report was approved.
3. Welcome to two new LAB members: Dawn Figueras and Cindy Vigil.
4. Librarian’s Report: Librarian reported on the following items:
July was very busy – Summer Reading Club went well. See Library Feedback page for
comments. Do not have final stats yet. Registration and tracking was all on-line this year and
will probably keep it on-line in the future.
No programs were scheduled in August.
Public
Computer
Usage
Total
Circulation
Head
Count
Volunteer
Hours
# of
Volunteers
Total ILL
requests
Total
Program
Attendance
Total
Collection
Titles
Total
Items
April 4,543 39,961 24,020 618.25 63 106 2091 87,656 95,684
# of
Patrons New Cards
Renewed
Cards
Meeting
Room
Usage
Web Page
Sessions
Web
Page
Users
Web Page
Views
Wifi
Sessions
Wifi
Clients
April 31,781 527 801 66 8,099 4,469 15,347 22,521 1,885
• Two positions open – PT Clerk – had 151 applicants and PT Page (Shelver – 10 hours a week)
– had 39 applicants.
• Issued 225 TechShare cards this year, which is 100 more than normal. With these cards
you can go to SA or other library’s and get temporary card. You are limited in the number
of items you can check out at the other libraries and you must have your Schertz Library
card to get a TechShare card. (There is a list on the state library web page on which
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libraries use these types of cards.) With these cards, you can’t use other libraries
electronics resources, only physical items.
• Lizzie will be back effective September 13th.
• City has approved putting up signs in the parking lot for “Library Only Parking”. Hopefully,
this will stop students from the high school from parking in the library lot.
5. Bookstore Report: Donations are going well, but have received la lot of unusable stuff. We do
have more room to display the Vintage books in the store. Next Book Sale will be October 21
& 22 – passed around sign-up sheet. Sign-up sheet will also be in workroom for later sign up.
6. Update on CCAB (Committee of Committee’s Advisory Board): Brian passed out a handout
to help with the communication between committee’s for the city. It had short notes on each
committee’s items for July and August and a copy of what the CCAB talked about in their
August meeting. Something like this will be provided each month.
7. Library Board Resignation – Becky Scheffler resigned from the board for personal reasons..
Motion to adjourn meeting by Ruth and Patti P seconded the motion. Meeting concluded 7:26 pm.