Minutes from April 7, 2010
The Board Meeting for the Trustees of Brown Memorial Library was called to order at 6:00 p.m.
Attendance: Patty Furness, Bea Howe, Nola Jordan, Lorraine MacLeod, Joan Perry, Meg Fearnley
New Board Members Lorraine MacLeod and Nola Jordan were introduced.
Officers were elected as follows:
President: Joan Perry
Treasurer: Bea Howe
Secretary: Nola Jordan
The minutes of the March meeting were read and accepted.
A motion was made and passed to accept gifts and donations made to Brown Memorial Library in March in the amount of $570.59. Proceeds from the Mud Season Book Sale were $506.50, making it a very successful event. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted as presented.
The Librarian’s Report was presented and discussed. Circulation in all categories is up compared with February and better than the same month over the past three years. Attendance at programs has been especially good.
For the benefit of the new members, the Treasurer gave a brief overview of the library budget and of the way funds are managed and disbursed. She explained that certain funds or bequests have been earmarked for particular purposes and in most cases, only the income may be expended.
Lorraine demonstrated and explained how her Kindle works. In addition to purchasing e-books outright, they can also be downloaded from New Hampshire Downloadable Audio Books. Meg has discovered, however, that the system only allows you to download to a Barnes and Noble Nook or a Sony E-Reader. Lorraine will do some research on those two e-readers before the next meeting.
Bea distributed information and registration forms for the Spring Conference of the New Hampshire Library Trustees Association – that event will be held in Portsmouth on May 3.
The next meeting will be Wednesday, May 5, at 6:00 p.m.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Nola Jordan
Secretary