Attendance: Sue Kaufman, Frank Smith, Joy Oria, Becky
Grimes, Irene Walters, Margie Dumas, Steven Bychowski; Note Taker Melissa
Hayes.
5 Minute Resource Share: Find my past: PERSI. www.findmypast.com ; See handout for
tips. Steven, Irene and Sue worked on 2
methods to utilizing the PERSI component moved from Heritage Quest. Create free
account. Then utilize either the tips from the handout or find another path and
report the tips to the staff.
Overview of Managers meeting: Read the email about the
meeting. Consult the Blog postings. Look at the Training portal for trainings.
Volunteer for programs and events that are scheduled through HPL.
Family Search Partner Meeting Reports: Sue talked about the partner meeting with
Family Search at Roots Tech 2017 and her work at the Book scanning both. Turnaround time from scanning to uploading is
about 24hours. She gave statistics of
images online and books scanned. 7.8
million Images scanned. Mid- Continent
Public Library has started a pilot program called the Hub & Spoke to reach
out to community libraries, historical society and genealogical societies to
digitize more books. The books are sent
to the library for digitization and sent back to the owner. Our project being discussed is called the
“Hurricane Corridor” where books and
documents will be scanned.
Copyright date ”1924” new project will be to create a list
of our books that have not had renewed copyright established ; (Orphan book
project 1924-1964) Stanford University has a list of Orphan book .Details have
not been worked out yet. Arizona State
has 263 copy right books open to partner libraries for library patrons to read
on Family Search.” 1 person at a time”, can read said book if book has
copyright restrictions. If problems
arise with Family Search, Sue can send email.
Report problems or issues to Sue
to confirm problem.
Internet Archives: https://archive.org/ ; interesting
website to explore for free eBooks, software, videos, and more. Take a look!
Sue and 2 other made at the partner’s
meeting about genealogy on a local, state and national level ‘Linking you to
the World”; emphasis with a genealogy slant.
Reminder: Funds are available for
continuing education for a local or national event; pre-funding or advance to
attend an event or conference. Speak
with Sue and let her know. Remember to
watch webinars as well. Please document
on blog spreadsheet.
Joy presented her theme for Women’s
History month display. All can join in by posting a postcard size picture with
details about a special woman in our lives.
She is working on Asian Pacific Heritage Month in May and others.
Our theme for FY2018: programing will be
“Occupations” run with it!
Irene introduced Mitchell “Mitch”
Clendening is our new part-time CSC who started last week. He will work on the
book collection project starting with Nevada.
Margie will start with the Alabama books after she finishes with the
foreign collection updating.
Becky reminded up to get the customer
using the meeting rooms to fill out the blue form and bring it back to the
library when they have finished using the room.
Walk –in do not need the blue form, have then fill out the white form
and return that with the use count when they leave the room.
Frank reported that the guest house is
open for use and the elevator works!
Submitted by MH
