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TIqARD '
LIBRARY
PUBLICPhone 639-9511
12568 SW Main*Tigard, Or. 97223 AGENDA September 14, 1981
I Call to Order & Roll Call
II Election of New Chairman
III Welcome New Board Member
IV Reports and Communications
a. Minutes
b. Monthly Report
C. Letter from Betsy Chick
d. Friends of the Library Building Committee
V Old Business
a. Community Survey
b. Automated Circulation Ballot Levy
VI Information Items
a. Legislative Update on HB2823
b. Cable TV
c. Preliminary Statistics for 1980-81
T16ARD
LIBRARY
PUBLICPhone 639-9511
12568 SW Main•Tigard, Or. 97223 MEMORANDUM September 14, 1981
TO: LIBRARY BOARD
CITY COUNCIL
FROM: CITY LIBRARIAN
SUBJECT: Monthly Report, August 1981
1. Administration:
a. The Library Board meeting, scheduled for Ju4-r W, was cancelled for lack of a
quorum.
b. The telephone answering machine, budgeted 1981-82, was installed August 13.
The first Monday it was in use there were 27 calls that were handled by the machine.
C. Emphasis has been on "cleaning" up the card catalog in the children's room, i.e. ,
checking to make sure there is a valid author and title card for each book and a book for
each card. A volunteer has been working on the non-fiction collection replacing hard-to-
read or missing spine labels as well as preliminary weeding.
d. Each staff member has been asked to review their jobs and draw up some specific
goals for improvement. These will be consolidated and reviewed again next spring.
2. Personnel:
a. Volunteer hours totaled 560 for a daily average of 2.2 hours.
b. Boy Scout, Marvin Boyles, donated 6 hours community service.
3. Statistics:
a. Circulation of all materials 8305.
Books 7873 Magazines 301
Adult Books 5594 Audio-Visual 125
Juvenile Books 2194 Other 6
Interlibrary loan: Requests placed 75; requests filled 85.
b. User cards issued 167. In-town 86; out-of-town 81.
C. Story-hour attendance total 56; average 7.
d. Reference/Reader's Advisory 343.
e. Materials added 711.
f. Materials withdrawn 263.
g. Money Received:
Fines $36.09
Lost Books 64.31
Misc.
Replacement 8.00
Donations 3.00
Tigard Public Library - Monthly Report, September 14 - 2
4. Children's Services Report - John Henshell:
August was highlighted by three major programs. We started off August 1 with
the Tigard Town & Country Days parade. Twenty-three children participated -- coming
in costumes having to do with "Castles & Dragons" (knights, princesses, etc. ). Six
children fit into our float -- a scaly, green dragon built out of cardboard boxes.
"Castles & Dragons," our summer reading program concluded Friday, August 14, with
an awards party. Forty children showed up for activities that included three films
and "new games. " Refreshments were served and prizes were awarded. We gave out word
searches, bookmarks, "Heavy Reader" ribbon stickers, and Castles & Dragons iron-on
patches to the people who completed the program.
Our final major program of the summer was Washington Park's "Zoo-to-you."
72: people (19 adults, 53 children) came to the library to see and touch a variety
of small, live animals.
104 "J" and "Y" paperbacks were acquired and added to the collection. The new J
paperbacks were put on display and all circulated within a few days.