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Why it matters: The shift affects how the library budgets for digital and print collections. Holt said the library spent roughly $82,000 on OverDrive/digital materials this year and purchased about 5,500 digital items; those costs drove part of the collection-development and budget conversation.

Budget and digital collection
Holt told trustees that the library’s migration to a new integrated library system reduced some contractual-service costs and allowed her to reallocate funds to the books and periodicals budget line. She said OverDrive checkouts for Carson City totaled about 20,000 this fiscal year and that the library spent approximately $82,000 to acquire 5,500 digital items.

Staffing and operations
Holt outlined current and forthcoming personnel changes: one senior library assistant position will be open due to a resignation; the technology coordinator position has been revised and the director has requested a retitle to \"Library Services Manager\" while keeping grade and pay the same; interviews for several library assistant positions are pending; and a new part-time library clerk started this week. Holt said she will post the revised technology coordinator position internally once human resources approves the title change.

Programs and statistics
Holt presented summer reading statistics and said the community logged about 1.1 million minutes read in the summer reading challenge, and staff credited both expanded programming and Friends’ funding for raffle prizes and attendance boosts. \"We reached 1.1 and some change million minutes read,\" Holt said. She also said program attendance and targeted outreach to teens helped increase participation.

Strategic plan and next steps
Holt said the library will begin one-on-one staff meetings with consultant Dr. Simon in September as part of a strategic-plan refresh and that the board will be invited to scheduled sessions and a subsequent public outreach calendar. Trustees asked for the consultant’s planned dates and for more opportunities for board input; Holt said she would provide dates she has confirmed and that Dr. Simon will conduct staff sessions first.

Training and staff praise
Holt described a recent staff training on interacting with people experiencing homelessness and praised staff for their empathetic responses during a recent incident involving a patron who later died. \"We had developed a relationship with this man to the point that his friends knew that we would care to know that he passed away,\" Holt said, and trustees commended staff for their compassion.

Votes at a glance
- Motion: Accept minutes of the July 10 regular meeting with corrections discussed on the record. Moved by Trustee Markle; seconded by Vice Chair Lucas. Result: approved (motion passed).

Ending
Holt said the library will return to the board with additional budget and strategic-plan dates and will continue to provide quarterly statistics. Trustees asked staff to bring a fuller schedule of the consultant’s workshops and community meetings to the next board meeting.

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Why it matters: The Friends’ revenue funds library programs and materials the city budget does not cover. Trustees said clearer communications between library staff and Browser’s Corner volunteers could reduce friction when staff collect books for events such as the summer reading giveaway.

The Friends’ operation and donations
Trustee Markle described Browser’s Corner as a long-running, volunteer-staffed used-bookshop that supports the Carson City Library by donating proceeds. She said the Friends’ bylaws allow the group to give up to 95% of proceeds to the library and that the group provides money the library uses for items such as summer reading prizes.

Joy Holt, the library director, confirmed that staff who prepare program giveaways typically coordinate pickup with Browser’s Corner. She said the library’s programming and outreach coordinator, Haley Wilson, has been the regular contact for those requests. \"Haley always goes in. . . . We're here to collect some books for the summer reading programs, giveaways, and that hasn't necessarily landed well,\" Holt said, describing a recent interaction in which volunteers were upset when staff arrived to collect books.

Board and staff proposals to improve coordination
Trustees and Friends representatives discussed several practical steps to improve collaboration: giving Browser’s Corner advance notice of specific needs and dates (two weeks to two months suggested), asking volunteers to set aside items and clearly label them for library pickup, and inviting volunteers to help select giveaway books to increase engagement.

Trustee Spencel asked whether the Friends had identified any operational gaps they would like the board to address; Markle said regular internal meetings of Browser’s Corner staff and managers are the forum for that work and invited trustees to attend Friends’ monthly meetings.

Other details and outreach
Markle said Browser’s Corner receives frequent donations — sometimes hundreds of books per day — and distributes overflow donations to places such as a senior-center library and local hospital. She said the Friends also do teacher outreach, for example distributing discount coupons to local teachers.

Trustee Nichols and others encouraged a standing update from the Friends to the library board, and Markle agreed to provide periodic reports and to tentatively return for a quarterly update in November.

Ending
Trustees noted that better, earlier communication and occasional joint outreach could help volunteers and staff meet program needs while preserving the Friends’ volunteer culture.

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Library director details budget shifts, staffing gaps and summer reading gains; board approves minutes with corrections

Friends of the Carson City Library describe Browser’s Corner operations and $65,000 donation; trustees discuss coordination