Oct 24: Meeting with Cambridge City Community Schools and Youth Managers
10/24/1996
Cambridge City Community Schools and Youth Managers
Minutes of Meeting , Thursday, October 24, 1996
In attendance were: Judy Bibbins, Bob Goodwin, Marisol Arroyo, Lisa Deller, Eileen Keegan, Andrew Spooner, Roslyn Shoy of Managers Community & Youth, and Karen Carmean and Ted Burton of Library 21
To provide access to all the people of Cambridge and to insure that we manage our resources well, Library 21 is gathering information from as many groups as possible about what the people want.
What would you like in the library?
A. Community Activity Center
- Community performance space MCY06
- Small room to have activities for kids such as candlemaking & arts & crafts MCY06
- Exhibits like on subjects which could be borrowed and then could be stored and could be used regularly at different sites like programs on multi-cultural, women, history, art, maps, books, etc. MCY06
- Space for mother/ parent and children play groups (schools are busy during the day) MCY06
- Flexible performance space MCY06
B. Community Information Center
- Exchange of donated computer equipment- given because out of date but still good MCY06
- Access to city laws and city ordinances which change MCY06
- Community partnership programs with the universities and colleges in the area so we can know what we can visit and what resources we might have access to MCY06
C. Formal Education Support Center
- Ability to order educational and training programs for a particular day so they can be used by a group when needed and planned MCY06
- Consult on ways to interest kids in reading MCY06
D. Independent Learning Center
- Language Labs where you can listen to tapes and learn languages. A lab with multi-
- Learning languages with seeing it, hearing it, picking up accents MCY06
- Teaching people to use the internet MCY06
E. Popular Materials Lending Library
- Videos MCY06
- Video games MCY06
- audiovisual equipment to learn languages from many senses. MCY06
- Separate young adults from kids MCY06
- Hearing impaired programs built into the library MCY06
- A-V access MCY06
- CDs MCY06
- Records MCY06
- Tapes MCY06
- Classical movies MCY06
- Big screen access so we could show and see classical movies MCY06
- Purchase important video programs; for example, a program on handling violence by Deborah D. Stith which cost $350 a few years ago and was wonderful! MCY06
- Educational training programs and videotapes on subjects like: MCY06
- parenting MCY06
- stop smoking MCY06
- sexual harassment MCY06
- cultural issues MCY06
- work related issues MCY06
- Access to Internet MCY06
- Bookmobile to bring books to us and to senior citizens. MCY06
F. Preschoolers Door to Learning
G. Reference Library
- Better access to the skills of the people who work in the library MCY06
- Need a consultant on resources; this person should not be tied to a task or desk MCY06
- Resource educator to come to different groups MCY06
- Model programs access to information on model programs for ideas in areas like: MCY06
- fundraising MCY06
- crime prevention MCY06
- Quick source of information in local library- one stop question answering because of help from the computer MCY06
- Ability to walk a short distance to get your questions answered and to get to the next step. MCY06
- Access to the WGBH tape library MCY06
H. Research Center
- Keep track of the many PBS and other TV programs which are of continuing interest to many of us MCY06
- Crime analysis reports for individual neighborhoods for crime prevention; access to the city police statistics to analyze crime and plan prevention strategies. MCY06
- Trace genealogy- almost impossible now at the library because of poor microfiche, and information all over the place. We are way behind in MCY06genealogy. The Mormon church on Brattle Street has a computer with great access to computer information on genealogy. MCY06
I. Other- important functions missing from list
- Easily accessible by T MCY06
- Central Sq. location- good central location for the library & good for Central Sq. MCY06
- Oppose overloading the main branch of the library site MCY06
- ìGo there, walk in the door, and be welcomeî MCY06
J. An Important Civic Building
Who else should we talk to?
- Senior citizens MCY06
- Senior Leadership Council from the Harrington and Kennedy School areas MCY06
- Neighborhood councils MCY06
- Parent Liaisons- put in school letter when program on the library is planned in the neighborhood MCY06
- Local minority organizations- get the list from Lisa Peterson MCY06