| Agenda: | Pelham Free Public Library
Board of Trustees Meeting
Thursday, October 20, 2022
7:30 p.m., by Zoom
Topic: Library Trustees 10//20/22
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89085116216?pwd=TXhWNVpKZmVxQjlNcUp4S3lYVVdnQT09
Agenda
Announcements, changes to the agenda
Approval of previous minutes (Gillian)
Budget
Warrant
Budget Report
Director’s Report
Old Business
Update on letter to Town SelectBoard regarding classification of Staff Salaries
Update on subcommittee regarding Library website layout, including change of Trustee meetings to 2nd Wednesday of the month.
New Business
News from the Friends’ meeting in September (Susan)
Discuss process for challenges to book selections, perhaps add the ALA council’s *Library Bill of Rights (see Leverett Library under About Us)
Review dates of updated policies in Policies and Plans ie gift policy, ByLaws updated.
Develop a subcommittee for 5 year plan: Goals and objectives had been listed previously
Confirm next meeting date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 7:30.
*Library Bill of Rights
The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas,
and that the following basic policies should guide their services.
I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
II. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
III. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
V. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
VI. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.
Adopted June 18, 1948. Amended February 2, 1961, and January 23, 1980, inclusion of "age" reaffirmed January 23, 1996, by the ALA Council. |