Library Board of Trustees Agenda and Packet 2019 09 12

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Library Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes —DRAFT May 9, 2019 Page 3 of 3 IX. Director's Report (Nemecheck): (i) The Library seeks volunteers to help sign people up for the summer reading program. The signup date/time is May 24, 9:30am to 5pm. (ii) For the July 11 LBOT meeting there will be a group photo. LBOT members are requested to show up about 15 minutes early (i.e. at 6:15 pm). (iii) Details about this year's "On The Same Page" community -wide reading program are starting to be filled in. The featured book will be The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Branch. Superior resident Daryl McCool, and LBOT member Jeannie Schumann will be working on developing community programming connected to the theme of the book. (iv) On some "First Fridays" the Library will be staying open until 8 pm to help promote library outreach and contribute to the "First Friday Art Walk". The Library will be partnering with the Louisville Art Association. On those nights the Library will be sponsoring a children's "scavenger hunt" and there will be live music. The Library will try to give the adjoining streets and plaza a lively "Harvard Square" type atmosphere. (vi) The Lafayette City Council voted to make their library system free of over -due fines for all users. According to policy adopted by the Louisville City Council2, when a majority of libraries in the Flatirons Library Consortium adopt a fine -free policy for children's print materials, then the City Manager can direct the Library to follow suit. (vii) The Library is working on a marketing and communications plan for the city's affordable housing areas. (viii) Forty two people signed up for the May 18 library program on Mural Art lead by artist David Ocelotl Garcia. X. Agenda for next meeting on July 11, 2019: Report on the summer reading program. XI. The meeting was adjourned at about 7:37 pm. 2 See LBOT minutes from 3/8/2018, and the CITY COUNCILCOMMUNICATIONAGENDA ITEM 8D, March 5, 2018. http://www.louisvilleco.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=17064.