October 8th Agenda
Hopkins District Library Board Meeting
October 7th, 2013 7:00 PM
Call to Order
Roll Call
Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes
Treasurer’s Report *see attached
Correspondence - Letter from the Ybema Family, letter/donation from the Knudsen Family
Public Comment
Director’s Report
Programs Ongoing: Sticks & Strings group is meeting the 3rd Monday of the month (starting back up this month), book club; September: Wine making, Friday night at the library, self defense, cheese making, glass fusing, book making, hunters safety, fairy house building; October: Friends Group Meeting, Friday Night at the Library, Book Club, Affordable Care Act talk, Computer Basics Q&A, Beer Making, Sticks & Strings, Spider felted balls, Holiday Stories, Halloween..
Publicity Up to 148 likes on Facebook (ask your friends to like us!), articles in the Globe/Wayland Townbroadcast/Allegan News, ArtsAlive finished up and we are waiting to see how we did, new newsletter is out for the remainder of 2013
Meetings, workshops, etc Advisory Meeting, Township Meetings, ALA 2013 Annual Meeting, Director's Summit meetings, Christmas committee, MLA annual Conference, rural libraries conference
Building Issues updating quotes for bike rack
Budget Issues none
Library Closings none - will be open from 6-8pm for Halloween candy check/rest stop
Volunteers 22 people have signed up for the Friends of the Library group so far and their next meeting October 7, donated books still coming in,
Lakeland, State other library news none
Patron comments and suggestions continued book suggestions, dvd suggestions
Other starting work on the winter secret project, grant applications
Old Business - meeting policy
New Business -
Public Comment
Adjournment
Next Meeting Tuesday November 22th, 2013 at 7:00 PM