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FINAL MINUTES
March 19, 2008
Room 278 City Hall
Chair Sue Cauthen called the meeting to order at 6:12 PM. Jan Seeman took the minutes.
Present:: Ted Bamberger, Sue Cauthen, Lucille Cuttler, Carlyn Halde, Roger Kallen, Margaret Lee, Clarice Moody, Douglas Ryan, Janis Seeman, Gladys Soto, Peter Warfield, Dan Weaver
Absent: Enne Braun, Jenny Situ, 3 vacancies (SFPL seats)
Chair Cauthen welcomed three new members: Ted Bamberger (senior delegate), Carlyn Halde (District 8) and Clarice Moody (District 4). LCAC Members introduced themselves.
Two members of the public were present: Kim Clark, who is with a homeless shelter monitoring group, and James Knoebber, community organizer for the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center
PresentationonLink+/InterlibraryLoan: Kathy Lawhun, Chief of Main, and Vivian Pisano, IT Chief, distributed copies of the Interlibrary Loan and Link+ power point program presented at the Library Commission meeting on March 6, 2008. Ms Lawhun described the process and presented some statistics. SFPL receives approximately 30,000 items and sends out 15,000 per year. One advantage noted is speed of delivery. It takes 2-3 days to receive a Link+ book, as opposed to 2-3 weeks for OCLC's WorldCat (ILL).
There was concern about the $115-120 fees for lost books. Ms Lawhun said there have been very few books lost since Link+ became available in 2007. She said that fees are negotiable and may also be satisfied via book replacement by the borrower, plus a processing fee. Also mentioned was a member’s difficulty in making an ILL request that involved moving from one screen to another and back
The Library Commission is set to consider Link+/ ILL in May or June. It will be discussed further at the LCAC meeting in April.
The meeting recessed from 7:03 - 7:08.
The new CollectionDevelopmentPlan was introduced by Marcia Schneider, chief, of the department, and Laura Lent, deputy chief. .Ms Schneider went over the plan, which was developed over the past two years. It describes SFPL holdings and how ro access them, as well as the library’s guiding principles. She demonstrated some of the links from the Main Library web site to the home pages of the branches and the branch collection.
Member Suggestions and Comments: Put notices of LCAC meetings in newspapers to attract more of the public; participate in a member’s plan to do an article on the Library CAC; Presentations by the Friends of the Library and a veteran library activist.
Minutes: A motion to approve the February 20, 2008, minutes passed unanimously.
Yes: Bamberger, Cauthen, Cuttler, Halde, Kallen, Lee, Moody, Ryan, Seeman, Soto, Weaver, Warfield
The next meeting is April 16, 2008, in Room 278, City Hall.
The meeting adjourned at 8:15 PM
