09-22-2025 LIBM Library Board Meeting
September 22, 2025
4:30 p.m., Library Meeting Room
Members present: Dianne Wanzek, Margaret Hoffman, Sue Griep, Julie Lofdahl, Carolyn rich
Ex- fficio: Katy Hiltner
Meeting was called to order at 4:31, minutes of the August 25, 2025 meeting were reviewed and
approved.
Old Business
1. I° I° mReos
Meet the Author, Mary Seifert did a presentation on September 17 with 5 people in attendance.
She was very entertaining and the audience appreciated her. C taped her presentation. She
gave Katy some valuable information that will be useful to aspiring authors,
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■ Story times started September 11, 2025,with 48 attending,36 kids and 12 adults.
■ On September 18, 2025 we had 21 kids and 11 adults for a total of 32 attendees.
■ Graphic Novel Book Club— 8 participants
■ LEGO Club - 15 participants
■ Coding and Gaming Club —5 kids,3 adults
■ Upcoming—Teen Gaming Club
Next
■ Teentober—we will have a pumpkin Painting Party for teens as well as a spooky game night.
■ Pumpkin Bling will be on October 27th for all ages. We will start with the seasonal Explorer Kits.
2. Bunch Grant
Updates to Children's Space-the chairs look great and are parent approved. Eight of the old
children's chairs were given to Wheel and Cog along with a computer table and puppet theater.
Julie Lofdahl took the other children's chairs for her church.
Both children's computers are in that space. One might be moved to the teen area.
3. Friends of the LibrarySale
Profits were down this year($1,333.40)because of all the construction we had this past year.
New Business
1. Library Job Postings
Library Assistant II,Tues and Thurs 4:oo-S:oo, one Saturday a month
Library Assistant I,Mon 9:00-2:oo,Fri 12:oo-4:oo,two Saturdays a month
2. Fall Calendar of Events
In addition to the children's and teen's events listed above, registration is open for the Wool Painting
Worshop at The Depot on October 15, ages 10 and up.
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Katy reached out to the Stearns Foundation for support on redoing our end caps in oak. Not only
did the Stearns Foundation get on board,but so did Stearnswood and the Goebel Foundation.
Goebel's will build them out of wood, starting in Oct. and they will have acrylic sign holders.
• Thanks to Rich Wanzek for building window frames for safety purposes in the alcoves.
• We will be giving the laminate table (from the second floor)to Common Cup.
Katy is pricing recovery costs for library chairs.
• We are hoping to get new tables for the meeting room and recover the chairs.
• We want to eventually replace the reading chairs.
4. Other
We will pivot away from self-published authors and suggest that they contact local bookstore.
These books are not vetted, so it could be a potential problem. They would be welcome to use meeting
room they wanted to.
5. Donations and Grants
None this month.
We will meet next on Oct 27, 2025.
Respectfully submitted, Sue Griep
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