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March 8, 1978
Minutes of the regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Skokie
Public Library held March 8, 1978, at 7:30 p. m. at the Library.
Members present:
Walter Flintrup, Diana Hunter, Richard Lindberg,
Shirley Merritt, and Norma Zatz, also, Mary Radmacher, Chief Librarian.
John
Wozniak joined the meeting at 7:30 p. m.
Also present:
Patrick Williams, Professor at Rosary College Library
School and Louise Aleksciewi cz, Eugenia Bryant, Yvette Tetrault, students from
his Library School Class were observers.
The meeting convened at 7:40 p. m.
Vice President Diana Hunter pre-
sided in the absence of President Weiner.
Mrs. Hunter welcomed the observers and invited their comments at
the end of the meeting.
Changing of the word microwave to radio frequency on page 6, last
line of the third paragraph of the minutes for February was requested, following
which Mr. Flintrup moved the minutes be accepted as corrected.
Mrs. Zatz seconded
the motion and it carried unanimously.
Mrs. Zatz made the following motion which was seconded by Mr.
Flintrup and, on roll call vote, carried unanimously.
Motion:
That the financial statements fo;r the General
Operating Fund, Reserve Fund for the Purchase
of Sites and Buildings and Library Construction
Fund be accepted and the lists of bills for the
General Operating Fund in the amounts of
$3, 003. 68 and $23, 143. 94 be approved for payment.
On the Circulation Report for the month of Feburary, 1978, Mrs. Hunter
questioned the accuracy of the number of registered borrowers.
Miss Radmacher
explained this is an accrued accounting and the prior years had not been absolutely
correct.
Circulation Report was ordered to be placed on file.
Report on the Sales of Book Bags showed that, as the weather get worse,
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more bags were bought.
Library Use Statistics were examined and report approved.
The Board received a thank-you letter from Mr. James Hammond for
the plant sent to him at this office following his illness.
Attention was called to the recording of a gift from the Circulation
Department in memory of, Edith Grafman.
Personnel and the three CETA appointments were discussed by Miss
Radmacher.
The CETA workers who
will~berpr:ocessing
books for the security system
are at present analyzing circulation statistics and preparing pictures for the picture
file until the security system is selected and the targets arrive, when all three will
be as signed to that task.
There were no comments from the Library Trustees at this time.
Monday night Mrs. Hunter attended the first of the four travel films.
At least 100 people were in attendance and she suggested in the future, because of
the limited parking, not to schedule anything on Monday which is likely to have a
large attendance.
finding
Miss Radmacher agreed with her but pointed out the difficulty im
a, bee .time.
Thursday is the regular night for the feature film series and
for several years special series have been held on Monday because that is the only
night of the week the auditorium is available consistently.
Mrs. Hunter also mentioned the lack of lighting to locate your seat if
you are late
arriving.
It is pitch black in the auditorium.
Miss Radmacher said
the Board has approved correcting this situation but the work has not been done yet.
In the meantime, Mrs. Hunter suggested a small flashlight be used to usher people
to their seats.
Regarding parking, Mr. Flintrup suggested the Library Board contact
the Village Board asking that some restriction be made on the area next to Galitz
where there is ingress and egress so that particular piece of parking does not remain
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the domain of those (Xpartments next to it.
If there was no entry to the parking area
from.Galitz, it would not be as convenient to those apartment dwellers.
Secondly,
request the Village to enact an ordinance preventing overnight parking in the parking
lot.
The Village Hall is being enlarged and that means the parking behind the present
building will disappear.
The Village Hall will be taking all that parking space and
parking becomes more valuable to us.
If that parking is shared with people who
think it is their private parking lot, everyone will suffer.
Perhaps it would fortify
the Village's position if another public entity would say we would like to see this as
private parking.
It is time for the Library to claim its ·share and have the space
available for library parking.
The Board reacted favorably to Mr. Flintrup' s sug-
gestion and requested Mr, Matzer be contacted to set up a meeting of the Library
Board and Village Board to discuss this.
Parking is going to be very stringent <?-nd
the Library should go on record with its request l?ng before the Village starts
construction.
Miss Radmacher will contact Mr. Matzer to set up the meeting with him.
Mrs. Hunter commented on attending a meeting held by the Council of
Governments of Northwest Illinois.
of workmen!:s
They made a stu:dy/ of pooling for the purchase
une-,IT}ploym~e;'nt;:c:o.:i:npe'!YSa6.oreah<il"'.±lteyjwiH
set u..p their-own p-.ool f<:?o-- _
cove;r.Il)un.i,i:i.pali~ies only, !for tpec:prre:S ent.c.o..J:f; it 1 proVJ.e1s;BlJsdcessful;>this·-might be.-
extended., to special districts.
Mr. Flintrup invited the Village of Skokie to participate in the same
unemployment compensation program as the North Suburban Library System.
fee for the System is $1. 80 per person per year.
The
The Village will pay $2.. 80 per
person per year and it is not as extensive a service.
When the System finalizes
plans for handling claims, a decision can be made by this Board to join them or
continue with the present choice.
Mr. Flintrup felt somewhat put out that the Village
made their.arrangements and did not bother to ask the Library to go along with them.
Mr. Flintrup reporting on the System Board meeting said the deferred
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compensation is in a state of chaos because of IRS.
It may be the whole program
is not legal and the contributions to it may be taxable.
The RBP discussion was temporarily circumvented because of long
range planning.
It has been suggested a survey, funded by the State of Illinois,
be conducted. by an outside accounting concern.
The survey would attempt to answer
some questions such as why does someone bother to go to another library and those
types of questions.
There is nothing wrong with the survey other than the fact that
a committee of the Board and members of RLAC have been appointed to a joint com mittee with a structured life of nine months.
The State survey would take one year.
The time limit is a distllrbing factor to get the results back in time to act reasonably
and rationally for the RBP.
The concern for RBP first of all is monetary and SOrf.
per volume is the concern of the System.
tinue to pay at that rate.
It is doubtful whether the System can con-
The System has to examine all of its programs that are
Programs have to be reviewed and brought under System roof.
costing dollars.
boils down to dollars and cents and those libraries that .3,:r;:e
saying they will not take any reduction in the
are saying the foe is high~.
b~ing
It
heavily used are
Soi fee and those that are borrowing
Niles Public Library advanced a figure of 1St per
volume.
That is not acceptable to Arlington Heights.
Arlington
Heig!~ts
would withdraw from the System.
If that figure were accepted
Under those conditions it is
really imperative that NSLS examine very carefully what RBP is doing, where the
cost is going and-what it means to the members.
the
backbone~of
If :the heavy lenders withdraw,
the System is gone and there will be no large libraries in the System.
This is, probably the most pressing issue the System has now.
This issue has been discussed at length at the System.
A committee
of RLAC and System Board members has been appointed and they will be presented
with the charge at the next Board meeting to begin functioning and to stay within the
time limit of nine months and come back with a solution concerning RBP.
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Executive Board and Management Affacirs Committees are holding
meetings where they;'are giving on sight consideration of those services supplied by
the System.
The idea of these inspections is to see whether the economics of having
those services performed at the System rather than individual libraries would be
better.
It would appear almost without exception at this juncture to send all of those
services to NSLS and centralize them there.
Updating the Mt. Prospect Library Board conflict with the Mount Prospect Village Board, Mr. Flintrup reported that under Home Rule the Village Board
can call for a referendum and dissolve the Library Board and proposes to do so,
and make the Library a department of the Village, the Librarian a department head,
with 'the Village Board in charge of the Library.
appropriate all of the funds.
reality.
The Village Board will manage and
It is past the state of conversation and in the realm of
It is important to understand the Village of Skokie, under Home Rule, if
they found it necessary, could follow the same legal course.
case that will go to Supreme Court.
the dis'solution 'of the Library Board.
Village
o.f~0.t¥can
It is an interesting
If the referendum is succ.essful, it would mean
Under those cir cum stances, at any time any
invoke the referendum and do away with another taxing body.
There are several things under consideration:
ILA is working on legislation, the
Systems are working on legislation and the State Library is doing the same.
The
System will participate in providing legal funds for the Library Board.
At the Systems President and Directors meeting in Springfield, the
Whitehouse Conference Committee, headed by Don Wright, reported meetin:gs will
be held on a System basis.
They will he done at the System headquarters or at
libraries that the Systems would designate to have those meetings.
The Systems
will become more and more involved in the selection of people to serve on the
committee to be sent to Washington.
It was the only proposal that was accepted the
whole day as being something the State and System libraries would participate in.
The proposal for film service presented to the State by the metropolitan
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area systems met with opposition from the rest of the State.
The formllla with
poplllation as the criterion was qllestioned with the idea of basing a formllla on
Rllral areas feel they are being short-changed. Therefore, this
sqllare miles.
was also sent back for review.
Information re ALA-ILA Federal Legislative Day, April 4, 1978 and
Library Legislation Day, May 23, 1978-was distribllted to the members.
Last
year Mrs. Hllnter attended the Legislative Day in Washington in regard to revenue
sharing.
The ILA Executive Director phoned Mrs. Hllnter and Sllggested she attend ,
again this year.
Mrs. Zatz approved of this Library involving itself with the
Federal Government.
At present Mrs. Hllnter knows all the legislators and, basic -
ally, is the only one well versed with
~vhat
is going on.
Mrs. Zatz feels that if it
is at all possible, another representative from this Library shollld be appointed to
go to Washington to become acqllainted with the isslles.
The Board wollld not be
Mr.
too dependent L1pon ohe person in the event Mrs. Hllnter cannot attend.
Flintrup expressed his concllrrence with the fact that if another person collld and
wanted to attend, it shollld be done.
sent to Washington.
Mrs. Merritt agreed that two people shollld be
This appeared to be the consensllS of the Board.
sllggested that anyone wishing to go to Was.hingtori. shollld talk
Mrs. Hllnter
with Miss Radmacher.
Regarding budget recommendations, Miss Radmacher will mail a copy
for the Board to stlldy and be prepared to adopt or recommend changes.
The blldget
mllst be approved by April or May meetings.
Mr. Flintrup had nothing to report on the photocopying machines bllt
does have a company to assume the maintenance of the eqllipment we own.
This
company 1 s service will bring the machines into correct alignment to work correctly
and regularly prodllce good copies.
The Library owns the equipment but has had
serious problems finding someone to maintain it.
The manufacturer finally recom-
mended someone who will take care of the maintenance.
Although Vendacopy will
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overhaul the machines, Mr. Flintrup said he would hesitate to say overhaul the
equipment until he knows whether this is necessary.
He would like to see whoever
has the quotation to give us on the maintenance examine the machines and see what
kind of maintenance is necessary and he will have the man come and look at the
machines.
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Discussi'oii·:·was opened on security systems.
tion are:
The units under considera-
Gaylord (Magnavox), Knogo, 3M-Tattle Tape, and Checkpoint.
points for consideration are:
Some
magnetic field as compared to radio frequency, com-
pliance with technical requirements of the FCC, ease of applying targets, false
alarms, being
locked~·.into
a system requiring materials we may not need in the
future e.g. book pockets, and company reputation.
Some libraries have eliminated
the Checkpoint because it is the one operating under radio frequency.
It has been
claimed that Checkpoint does not meet the technical requirements of the FCC.
Mr. Lindberg thinks what was reported in 1976 is no longer valid.
It is a static field
and not a high energy field which would be in a microwave oven.
Another factor was pointed out that if and when
thi~
Library goes into
an automated circulation system, a book pocket _may not be needed.
Checkpoint is
the only one of these four systems which would require a pocket because to demagnetize the system a detuner card is put in the pocket.
Circulation and Technical
Services Department have looked at these four systems and they are concerned
about the time required to insert the sensitized strips.
Also, more publishers are
not binding their books rso the tape could be inserted and, in some cases, cannot
insert the tape without breaking the book.
Miss Radmacher has heard no complaints
from any library on any system because of health problems.
Apparently no system is perfect and each one has a slip once in a while.
The gentleman at Arlington Heights informed Mr. Lindberg they never had a slip on
their security system.
Mr. Lindberg is bothered by the sensitizing and desensitizing
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necessar y on all equipmen t excepting Checkpoi nt.
as does Checkpoi nt's targeting and detargeti ng.
Each of :these steps takes time
One concern is with the possibili ty
Park Forest asks that cassettes be put in a basket.
of erasing tapes.
Supposin g
when equipmen t is checked out, the clerk at the checkout desk inadverte ntly passed
this over and the tape is erased.
Tm t could not occur with Checkpoi nt.
Mr.
Flintrup mentione d the catch is you have a target in the book and a patron can
deactivat e the target by putting a little piece of paper with an alU:tninum foil inside
the book.
The next time the patron visits the Library those bits of aluminum foil
are carried in and these foil things can be put into the pocket and no one is the wiser.
Arlington Heights said they suppose this does happen but the instance is unimport ant.
The thing is also true of the electro magne.tic system - you can by-pass that and get
out of the gate.
There are ways of defeating the purpose of any of the systems but
Mr. Lindberg thinks Checkpoi nt is the betst .:· system for this Library and the price
is somewhe re between the high and low.
Mr. Flintrup mentione d it is possible the Library will have to go out
for bids.
In discussin g the FCC ruling on safety, Mr. Lindberg said this Library's
questionn aire asked the bidders to furnish a suitable policy of insuranc e holding this
Library harmless .
For example, suppose someone walks through the gate and
somethin g happens to them - this Library wants to be held harmless .
Mrs. Merritt
asked what the seal of approval is on microwav e ovens and how seriously should it
be taken.
Mr. Lindberg suggested the Library may need to call in someone skilled
in radio frequency to find out whether the FCCb1es sing is one to insure if a customer
goes through the gate the radio frequency would not interfere with his pacemak er or
health in any way.
Mr. Lindberg will contact a radio engineer to advise the Library.
The Board was requested to take home all the informat ion and study
it as thorough ly as possible and be prepared to ask questions when the radio engineer
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In discussion of ways in which books are sensitized
and desensitized, Mr. Lindberg mentioned that the desk could become very hot
if the Gaylord Magnavox desensitizing unit is put under the desk.
Mr. Lindberg
offered to draw up some spetifics.
The issue of unemployment insurance was tabled at the last Board
meeting.
Mr. Flintrup said the System concept is self-insurance at 1 o / o of the
payroll per year.
If, at the end of the year, that account has not been expended,
depending upon how it is worked out, either money will be returned or a credit
against the next years payment is received.
This money would be held in a bank
account, at an interest bearing rate, and all participants would share in that interest.
The System has not finalized the self-insurance program but some time in the future
this Library will be in receipt of a report from the System Director about a form of
self-insurance.
Mr;- -F3:in-trnp-will-writ-e-to- -Mr;- -Ell-ieH- B-a-lter -a-b-out-t-he-Set1.lpt-ureGrant.- Miss Radmacher wrote to Mr. B·alter to advise him the Library plans to
make application to the Illinois Arts Council for a grant. If the Library is given
locate donors.
the grant, it will be up to the Library to contribute-the- bala:nce. Rabbi Weiner
would like to see the Library do it on its own.
Miss Radmacher reported the broken window is still not replaced.
Correspondence from Johnson Controls stated their intention
of improv-
ing their service to this Library.
Copies of a letter sent to the Friends of the Lincolnwood Library from
the Skokie Public Library Board congratulating them on a job well done were dis tributed to th.e members.
Mrs. Zatz expressed her concern about excessive use
of Skokie Public Library by the people of Lincolnwood through RBP.
said Skokie is ·going to be used but will be compensated.
Mr. Flintrup
It was the consensus of
the Board to wait and observe developments in the Lincolnwood situation.
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Illinois Public Libraries' Trustees Association meeting a week from
Saturday will be held in. St.- -Gharle-s-. La Grange.
Miss Radmacher will make reservations for the LACONI dinner for
members wishing to attend that function.
Meeting adjourned at 10:00 p. m. on motion by Mr. Flintrup.
(J!hn Wozniak
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Secretary
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