Hopkins Public Library Board Meeting
December 15th, 2012 9:30 AM
Call to Order
Roll Call
Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes
Treasurer’s Report *see attached
Correspondence
Public Comment
Director’s Report
Programs Sticks & Strings group is meeting the 3rd
Monday of the month, book club, Coups for Troops (coupon clippers),
Jewelry Making class (sucess, will do again), Halloween (candy check at
the library, cookies and cider), This month: Santa, Cookie Swap, Winter Bazaar, You've Been Jingled (winter secret project)
Publicity Up to 81 likes on Facebook (ask your friends to like us!), articles in the Globe, school newsletter, posters around town, Allegan News articles
Meetings, workshops, etc Advisory Meeting, Township
Meetings
Building Issues broken door (soon to be fixed)
Budget Issues none
Library Closings none
Volunteers 22 people have signed up for the Friends
of the Library group so far and they have a table for book sale at the Winter Bazaar,
donated books still coming in (slowly),
Lakeland, State other library news none - I'm secretary of the Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the PPS Committee for Lakeland, Co-Chair of the Special Events Committee for the 2013 MLA Annual Conference
Patron comments and suggestions continued book suggestions, looking for ideas of programs for next year
Other Robert C. Reinhardt grant, Signed up with better world books to sell our old books that don't sell here, send audio books off to the heritage for the blind, plan to start a campaign for donations for our summer reading program (evens are already planed out), new news letter is completed, 2013 summer secret project is progressing, writing up letter for teachers and planning suggestion box, working on finishing federal forms and RFP for USF federal funds for next year
Old Business: Audit - vote
New Business: would like two people for Hopkins improvement? committee
Public Comment
Adjournment
Next Meeting Tuesday January 8th, 2013 at 7:00 PM
