10-24-2011 LIBMHutchinson Public Library Board Minutes
Monday October 24, 2011
Present: Roger Vacek, Dianne Wanzek, Abby Dahlquist, ion Ross, Mary Christensen and Mary Henke, Ex-Officio-
Guy Stone and Stacey Nass were absent.
Roger Vacek called the meeting to order. The minutes from the last meeting were reviewed. Mary Christensen made a
motion that the minutes be approved and ion seconded the motion. Motion passed.
Roger V. attended the Pioneerland Library System meeting on October 20, 2011 and shared with us the highlights from
that meeting.
old Business: n Head Librarian position by PLS. She is spending a couple
Mary has been appointed to the Winsted /Hutchinson f.1
hours per week in Winsted and otherwise keeps in contact with them by phone. She commented that they will need
more funding from the city of Winsted to improve their services such as more open hours, more room or more
computers.
The author visit from Lisa Wysocky went well with 32 people attending. We were pleased to see that it drew a
lot of new faces to the library. Jo Morgan came in to teach 13 people on how
Mary to download e books and provided handouts for them. The
help was well received by those who attended.
New Business:
Sherry Lund, the children's librarian, gave us results from the Summer Reading Program. There were 520
children who participated, 228 finished, 12,000 books were read compared to 10,000 books read last year. She reported
that 3M had made a donation of tattoo bandaids for prizes and that Dairy Queen has been donating 10% of sales from
the 3rd Tuesday of each month throughout the year along with Frequent Reading Cards for treats. They also partnered
with 4H to bring the Critter Company and the MN Zoo during Stories in the Park. To fit in with the theme one World,
Many Stories, Robert Martinez read., Lori Stengall covered history, Lisa Bowen talked about Japan, and Ron McGraw
covered Ireland.
The library will be closing for 3 days, October 25-27h 1 for inventory. Mary is trying to give staff their usual hours
to complete the inventory, along with some volunteers. Staff will also have a heavier load than usual trying to catch up
when the library reopens.
The Hutchinson library is expecting $6000 in 2012 from the Legacy program. We would like to do another
project with the museum for Hutchinson's 150'h anniversary on the conflict between the settlers and Sioux Indians.
other ideas we would like to pursue would be a bus trip to Fort Snelling, a possible art workshop, or Native
Interpretation Through Art project.
Our next meeting is scheduled for November 28 at 4:30 pm.
Meeting adjourned.
Donations received in Aurtust & September, 2011: From John Upke and Dairy Queen for Children's programming, and
large print books from the Hutchinson Lioness Club.
Submitted by Abby Dahlquist, Secretary.