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Minutes of Meeting - May 15, 2000
Present: Stephen Conner; Donna InDelicato; Richard Ogden; Christine Redford; and Maria Sivaggi.
Also present: Matthew Cummings.
Ms. Silvaggi called the meeting to order at 7:05 and turned the meeting over to Dr. Redford for the Election of
officers.
Elections: Mr. Conner was unanimously voted as chairman, along with Mr. Ogden as vice chairman and Dr.
Redford as secretary.
Maria thanked Ms. Young and the Board for their help and support during her three years as chairman. Mr. Ogden
thanked Ms. Silvaggi for all her work during very difficult times.
Minutes: The minutes of the April 25, 2000 meeting were accepted as written.
Director's Report: Ms. Young reported on the letter of appeal to NMRLS from Mr. Sutton from Andover's
Memorial Hall Library. She said that Mr. Sutton is concerned that the Reading Public Library is the recipient of the
Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System's (NMRLS) evening, Weekend, and Holiday RFP. Ms. Young
will attend this week's NMRLS meeting to observe the appeal process, and this month's meeting of regional
administrators to confirm the expiration date of Andover's contract as regional reference center.
The 2000-2001 meeting dates were distributed. In light of a new director coming on board, it was decided to
schedule summer meeting dates.
Mr. Ogden said that the Strategic Plan will be ready for distribution at the June meeting.
Chairman's Report: Mr. Conner reported on the search committee's work. Four candidates have been interviewed
and the hope is to complete the first round of interviews by Saturday, May 20, 2000.
Ms. Young's Evaluation: Ms. Young's evaluation was completed.
Operating Hours: Ms. Young reported that the staff preferred cutting summer Saturday hours instead of removing
some hours from each Saturday. They felt that every hour is important when the library is open. Since the summer
Saturday hours were the ones most recently established, they felt they were the ones to be removed. The Board
reaffirmed its earlier decision to close on summer Saturdays.
Financial Report: Ms. Young and the Board reviewed the Financial Report.
Statistical Report: Ms. Young suggested that there needs to be a new reporting system for the Statistical
Information. More library work is being completed at home via the Internet than ever before. Staff determined that
1/3 of periodical database searches is done at home. In addition to having a new way of tracking and reporting
statistical information, Ms. Young suggested putting more money into the purchase of fiction, CDs, videos and
DVDs.
The meeting adjourned at 8:10 p.m.
_Christine Redford
Secretary