Cambridge Public Library

Board of Library Trustees Minutes

A regular meeting of the Board of Library Trustees was held on Monday, December 4, 2000 in the Director’s Office of the Main Library. The following members of the Board of Library Trustees were present:

• Ms. Janet Axelrod
• Mr. Andre Mayer
• William Barry
• James Roosevelt
• Nancy Woods

also present:

• Susan Flannery, Director of Libraries
• Philecia Harris, Assistant Director
• Marilyn Gagalis, Administrative Assistant

Minutes of the November meeting were approved.

Correspondence was acknowledged.

Board members discussed the revised strategic plan draft and unanimously approved it for submission to the Board of Library Commissioners for the December deadline. Further stylistic revisions may be discussed at the next meeting.

Board members discussed plans for notifying supporters and the Friends of the Library about the next City Council meeting, which will be held on Monday, December 11, 2000. The City Council may vote on the library site at this meeting. A postcard will be sent to all Friends informing them of date and time of meeting.

Ms. Flannery presented the staff budget priorities for FY02. Those requests include:

1. adding part time staff to the Rotary Technology Center at Central Square Branch to open it every day
2. changing the status of the Collins Branch intermittent to permanent
3. adding a full time librarian/archivist for the Cambridge Room so that it can be open to the public
4. public relations services (either staff or consultant)

There being no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 9:00 p.m. The next meeting of the Board will be on Monday, January 8, 2001 at 6:30 p.m. in the Main Library.

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Andre Mayer, Secretary