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Library Director Tracy Gray told trustees the city attorney’s office consolidated and reformatted the policy, adding first-, second- and third-offense suspension lengths for certain violations. Gray said, for example, that a physical altercation would carry a one-year suspension for a first offense and progressively longer suspensions thereafter under the new structure. “They added that, into the policy, and then the levels,” she said.

The edited policy groups violations into tiers (minor, moderate, major) and attaches applicable state or municipal code references. The policy also clarifies staff procedures, including issuing warnings and offering appeals. Gray said staff plan to post welcoming entrance signage listing expected behaviors and to make the full policy and an appeal form available at the entrance. Regarding the appeal timeline, Gray said the policy requires completed appeal forms to be received within 10 days and that the library will accept emailed PDFs in practice.

Trustees asked about suspension frequency and operational responsibility. Gray said most suspensions are short (daily to weekly) and that “in this fiscal year, just 1” longer suspension occurred; she added that staff try to keep sanctions equitable and consult with the city attorney on significant, year-long suspensions. Security staff and library leads coordinate enforcement, and Gray said the library uses a software system to record incidents so that in-charge staff receive notifications when a suspension is in effect.

Following discussion and no public comment, a motion to adopt the revised behavior policy was seconded and approved by roll call. Vice Chair Khalid Abasta, Board Member Sharon Su and Board Member Barbara Wiesen Baer each voted to approve the policy. The board directed staff to implement the posting and notification steps described in the policy.

The policy establishes a suspension appeal process and describes staff duties for issuing warnings and documenting incidents; Gray said significant suspensions are reviewed with the city attorney prior to issuance.

Votes at a glance:
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Library Director Tracy Gray described the work plan as the standard annual submission that all city commissions and boards file before the fiscal year. “All of the city council awards and commissions have to do with work plan every year at the beginning of, prior to the fiscal year,” Gray said while presenting the document.

A motion to accept the plan was made and seconded; the library director then conducted a roll-call vote. Vice Chair Khalid Abasta, Board Member Sharon Su and Board Member Barbara Wiesen Baer each voted “approved.” No no votes or abstentions were recorded on the roll call. The board noted that the plan will be presented to City Council at its August meeting for formal approval.

Trustees discussed minor scheduling questions about when the board sets its annual calendar of meetings and whether to present the calendar earlier in the fall; Director Gray offered to present a shorter calendar and redline comparisons where helpful. There were no public comments and no amendments to the work plan during the meeting.

The board’s action was procedural: accepting the internal work plan and scheduling the document for the next step in the city approval process.

Votes at a glance:
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Mosner said the library this year launched Vega Discover, a new public catalog that “is mobile responsive, meaning, the experience using VEGA on a mobile device, phone or tablet is gonna be just as good as on a computer.” He described features intended to improve discovery for users, including format roll-ups (grouping all formats of a title on one line), saved searches and the ability to translate the interface into Spanish and Chinese.

The catalog launch is one of several service changes Mosner outlined. The library added a PressReader subscription in February that provides access to more than 7,000 newspapers and magazines in many languages, a change Mosner said supports Mountain View’s multilingual community. The library also purchased 60 Coursera licenses after state funding ended; Mosner reported roughly 52 active Coursera learners per month and about 150 monthly enrollments.

Mosner reviewed physical-collection and public-space changes: the library operates nine adult displays (six on the second floor and three on the first floor) that are rotated monthly; the “lucky day” popular-title display is funded by the Friends of the Mountain View Library; study rooms and the second-floor program room were repainted; and wireless chargers and portable chargers were added to study areas using a Pacific Library Partnership technology reimbursement grant.

On community programming, Mosner said the weekly ESL conversation club drew 1,186 attendees this fiscal year and an online author series produced 616 live attendees across 35 events. The library also participated in regional Silicon Valley Reads programming focused this year on technology and AI, bringing in a generative-AI demonstrator from San Jose State University.

The presentation included operational updates. The history center completed a disaster-preparedness assessment with the Northeast Document Conservation Center and has begun inventorying previously uncatalogued boxed collections with an intern. The California Revealed digitization project returned proofs but faces funding uncertainty after the loss of a federal grant. The seed library was closed from after Thanksgiving through January to allow staff to prepare spring packets; the weekly seed packet limit was reduced from five to three and the bookmobile now carries a small selection.

Mosner also described growth in the Library of Things, citing four pedometers, three stargazing kits (more than 150 holds across three kits) and two webcams for in-house use. He said the materials-handling system that processes returned items, in place since 2008, is nearing end-of-life; staff plan to begin a procurement process next fiscal year with public works for a modular, smaller-footprint machine compatible with the Sierra back-end catalog.

During the demonstration, trustees asked about additional interface languages and font/visual prominence for the catalog banner; Mosner said Vega’s developers are actively taking feedback and that staff will raise presentation and accessibility requests. He also said staff and City IT plan to pursue wireless printing deployment in the coming year.

The briefing closed with Mosner noting several ongoing initiatives — expanded history center hours, a pop-up makerspace developed by an intern, continued summer reading activities and continued outreach to grow seed donations — and with board members thanking staff for the updates.

Mosner opened his remarks by introducing himself as “an adult services librarian here in the customer experience and technology division” and closed by saying, “that’s what I had for you today.”","At a June 16 special meeting, Adult Services Librarian Charles Mosner briefed the Board of Library Trustees on a year of service updates, the launch of the Vega Discover catalog and upcoming projects including wireless printing and a materials-handling system replacement.","actionData","errors"]

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