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J SARATOGA LIBRARY COMMISSION
MEETING
26 October 1983
Commissioners Present: Beverett, Gandrud, Kanemura, Mahler, Morrison,
Moss, and Wood
Library Staff Present: Barbara Campbell & Lois Thomas
City Staff Present: Joan Pisani
The October 26, 1983 meeting of the Saratoga Library Commission
was called to order by Chairman Moss at 7:35p.m. in the Community
Room of the Saratoga Library. Minutes of the August 24, 1983
meeting were read and approved without change.
Lois Thomas requested discussion of her draft of Saratoga Library's
five-year plan. Some of the points brought up in the discussion
among Commission members were: 1)recognition of the needs of
school-age children faced with. diminishing school library collections
and services; 2) inclusion of a separate section on "Collections"
in the five-year plan to identify the library's special collections
and recommend monitoring the needs of the user population in
determining additions to the collection; and 3) development of
a more specific time-line for the five-year goals.
Miss Campbell discussed the County Library staff's efforts to
evaluate the possibilities of a tax-override election in areas of
high community support to secure more public funds for libraries.
Joan Pisani reported on the following projects: 1) the City
contracted with Automatic Door Systems for installation of the
automatic front doors on Sept. 15, 1983. Commissioner Beverett
suggested that the City request from the contractor a completion
deadline; 2) the City arranged for 2 volunteers to weed the patio
area for 2 hours per week for 5 weeks and for a Boy Scout troop
to spend one Saturday upkeeping the grounds under the supervision
of Roy Swanson; 3)the patio benches have been sanded and sealed
and their dedication plaques attached.
Miss Campbell reported on the Friends of the Library workshop
held at the Milpitas Library with representatives of the Friends
of the Saratoga Libraries attending. She also announced the
upcoming CALTAC regional workshop in March 1984 and the CLA
convention in December 1983. Commission members planning to
attend the CLA convention were asked to submit to Lois Thomas
their plans to attend so that reimbursement requests can be for-
warded to the City.
Miss Campbell also described 2 types of State Library funding
grants available to libraries for microcomputer literacy projects:
1) a matched fund grant for the purchase of a computer for a
library; and 2) a $20,000 grant for purchase of a variety of com-
puters for a "computer center". The County will submit a grant
request for the $20,000 grant to establish a computer center at
the Gilroy library.
According to Miss Campbell, the County Library systems has received
$50,000 from Jobs Bill funding for the training of long-term un-
employed.
Mary Moss announced the dedication ceremony for the patio benches
scheduled for Friday, Oct. 28, 1983.
The next meeting of the Library Commission will be scheduled for
4:45 p.m. on Nov. 30, 1983.
Respectfully submitted,
Marilyn' ay Kanemura