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Columbia Heights Public Library
Report - January ll, 1972
December has been an unusually quiet month this year. As long as we
have been over-scheduled and unable to do routine chores, we made up for lost
time and did a thorough housedeeping job. We took inventories, sent out notices
~f uapaid fLu¢~ and lost books. To date or in one week's time, we have taken
in enough in old fines to pay for the postage on the notices. Eventually it
will ~pay the budget for the time the girls spent organizing this effort.
According to our inform~ accounting--the posting had not been available
at the city office for receipts, etc.--there is a balance of $3,335 in the
library fund becuase of the fund for the Minneapolis library use and because
of the receipts from MELSA. The Board might like to recommend that this sur-
plus be put toward the parking lot fund. As soon as the city clerk is back and
functioning we will be able to make up our yearly report due at the State
Library Division Office on February 1st.
The registratiors for pre-school story hour were slow coming in for this
term, but now each section has been filled and there is also a wmiting list.
Jo is beginning her after-school story and craft hour on January 12m and
there are about fifty registered for that. We try to keep the expense of these
extra programs to an absolute minimum, so Jo has been collecting junk (tin cans,
bottles, etc.) until we are wondering what to do with all of it. People have
been very cooperative about donating material.
The letters that the City Attorney sends out for us bring very good re-
sults. We are a little worried though that students will take the books without
checking them out rather that subject themselves to penalties for overdue books.
We have very few books checked out but not returned or paid for, but we have a
growing number of stolen books, especially in the non-fiction sections where
the students have required reading. The high school library loses man~° more
than we do and the least expensive remedy seems to be to replace them--some of
them three or four times.
We're looEing forward to an interesting 1972.