Best Practices Meeting Minutes

The Adult Services Roundtable met on Tuesday, January 18th at Emmet O'Neal Library at 10:00 a.m. Our topic was best practices.

In attendance were:

Katie Moellering (Emmet O'Neal)

Mary Donlevy (Emmet O'Neal)

Dianne Clark (Bessemer)

Lorraine Walker (Five Points West)

William Darby (Eastwood)

We discussed best practices in various areas of day to day library business including paging list, staffing and collection development.

Changes to our downloadable collection were discussed.

We talked about magazines and circulation, newspapers, Consumer Reports (which is a favorite resource for many patrons) and use of databases.

We had a lively discussion about tax forms, the ease of receiving them (!!!!) and what we will do now that many libraries have received drastically fewer copies of them form than in previous years.

Lorraine brought a flyer from Five Points West that she uses to promote new books each month.

We discussed which libraries have and use televisions in their libraries (such as at Eastwood and Five Points).

We also discussed best practices for cell phones, computers and privacy issues and finally security issues.

Our next meeting is scheduled for March 29th. We hope to meet at Vestavia's new library for a tour.