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Oconee County Library Board approves minutes, elects officers and updates collection policy
Summary
At its Jan. 28 meeting the Oconee County Library Board voted to approve last meeting’s minutes, rearranged the agenda to allow public comment first, elected officers for 2025, approved committee assignments and adopted two amendments to its collection development policy.
The Oconee County Library Board on Jan. 28 approved minutes from its Nov. 26, 2024 meeting, voted to change the meeting agenda to take public comment first, elected officers for 2025, approved committee assignments and adopted two amendments to its collection development policy.
The board voted 8–0 to approve the Nov. 26, 2024 minutes. The chair then called for a motion to alter the published agenda so public comment would occur before the election of officers; the motion was seconded and the board approved the change by voice vote.
The meeting proceeded with officer elections. Paul Holcomb was elected board chair; Kim Jackson was elected vice chair; and Tara Weeks was elected secretary-treasurer. The board used a show-of-hands vote for those elections; the meeting record indicates the nominations were uncontested and the officers were approved by the membership present.
The board next approved committee assignments (finance, policy & personnel, building & grounds, community relations) and appointed members to chair each committee. The assignment slate was moved, seconded and approved unanimously.
On policy, the board voted unanimously to amend its collection development policy to (1) state explicitly that library materials are available to the public but rare, fragile or costly items may be made available only on a limited basis and (2) add language that parents or legal guardians assume responsibility for materials borrowed by minors. The policy change also authorizes placement of materials based on publisher age classifications and replaces the library’s previous “young adult” labeling with more specific juvenile/teen/adult groupings.
The board’s minutes record the motion and second for the minutes approval and note unanimous approval for the collection policy and committee slate. No additional conditions or amendments to the collection development policy were recorded in the meeting minutes.
The meeting continued with reports and other business after those votes. A number of informational items — including the Friends of the Library sales report and discussion about an ADA accessibility project at the Seneca branch — were discussed but no additional formal votes were recorded on those items at this meeting.
