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RIVERSIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes of: Meeting of the Board of Library Trustees Date of Meeting: September 22, 2014 Time of Meeting: 5:00 pm Meeting Location: Main Library 3581 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, California Present: Gary Christmas (President) Tom Evans (Vice President) Judith Runyon (Secretary) Erin House Linda Ridgway Arnold Rowe Michael Yonezawa Absent: Janet Lewis (excused) Staff: Tanya Kennon, Library Director George Guzman, Administrative Services Manager Cindie Krueger, Sr. Office Specialist Carl Carey, Deputy Director General Services Jorge Villanueva, Project Manager General Services Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 5:00 p.m. by Trustee Christmas. Item 1 Public Comment No eComments or public comment cards submitted. CONSENT CALENDAR Item 2 Approval of the Minutes of July 28 2014 Board Meeting Trustee Ridgway moved with no corrections. Trustee Yonezawa second Ayes: Trustees Christmas, Evans, Runyon, House, Ridgway, Rowe and Yonezawa Nays: N/A Abstention: N/A Approval of the Minutes of August 25 2014 Board Meeting Trustee Runyon moved with no corrections. Trustee Ridgway second Ayes: Trustees Christmas, Evans, Runyon, House, Ridgway, and Yonezawa Nays: N/A Abstention: Trustee Rowe Item 3, 4 & 5 Approval of Trust Fund Expenditures; Approval of Donations of $1,000 or more and Update on Library Programs, Operations, and Special Program Requests Trustee House moved with no corrections. Ayes: Trustees Christmas, Evans, Runyon, House, Ridgway, Rowe and Yonezawa Opposed: N/A Abstained: N/A PRESENTATIONS Item b Library Director to Present'Library 101" Library Director Kennon introduced La Sierra Branch Manager, Megan Bond. Ms. Bond provided the Trustees with updates at the La Sierra branch including 2014 Summer Reading Program stats for the branch, programming and overall borrowing within the system. Director Kennon presented "Library 101 " with information on two services the Library will soon offer to customers: Zinio Digital Magazines and Enki eBooks. Zinio allows library customers access to a suite of digital magazines. Enki eBooks is designed to allow California libraries to own and store eBooks for customer access. It is a non - profit membership cooperative funded by member libraries. eBooks may be checked out for a period of up to three weeks. There is no cost to customers, no check out limits, no due date and no overdue fines. Both services are funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) via the Inland Library System (I LS). The programs will begin this fall.