Special meeting minutes — LePac purchase

4.13.87 pag Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library 550 Pier Avenue • Hermosa Beach, California 90254 • Telephone 374-8973 MINUTES of special meeting of the Friends of the Library, Monday, April 13, 1987, 7:30 p.m. at 1250 First ST., Hermosa Beach. The meeting was held at this address because of the urgency of the issue and Monday being the day the library is closed. President Charlotte Malone convened the special meeting at 7:30 p.m. No minutes were presented. Treasurer C.W. Malone Jr., presented his treasurer's report which was approved with expressed appreciation for its clarity and accuracy. The report is attached and made thereby a part of these minutes.(It shows balancs on hand as: General Fund, $3,227.69; EHB MEm. fund $13,592.08. Myron Gazin and Jack Belasco reported their joint visit to the Lomita library, where they viewed a LePac system already in use. Gazin reported the system has a screen about 9x12 inches; no keyboard per se, but a 10x3 container with buttons which provide access to book storage via title, author or subject. The entire county collection may be screened via a 3½ inch disk. THe system is easy to operate and displays clearly (Current catalog is fading and often difficult to read.) Jack Belasco affirmed the aforesaid, and pointed out that all our universities are now united into a wired system. This system provides access to a combined collection of 250 million titles. He consulted university systems experts for comparison; their advice is that the systems are admirable and the Le Pac price (approx. $3,000) is reasonable for our proposed system. Discussion exposed possible base price of $2,100 or $2,300 for an "expert" model having a keyboard. A third model includes a printer, costing about $3,000. MOTION, Belasco; 2d M. Gazin: Friends shall contribute one-half the purchase price (estimated $3,000.) of a LePac system. (The virtue of this action is that it will bring the system into Hermosa Beach much earlier than if we waited our turn in the line of county priority. Hermosa's being a small library, it has a low order of priority among the 93 branches in the L.A. County library. This move is in the same spirit which caused Hermosa years ago to build its library independently in 1962, much earlier than it it would have appeared in the county schedule.) Donors to the LePac fund will be acknowledged by the placement of memorial plaques. Voting in favor: 100 per cent of those present. Respectfully ubmitted, Patricia A. Gazin, acting secretary PRESENT: Charlotte Malone, Jack Belasco, Bill Malone, Bertha Dorsey, Edie Webber, Myron Gazin, Steve Hoffman, Jerome Dorsey, Dick Pio, Patricia Gazin. Betty Evans absent, voted by proxy.

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Hermosa Beach Friends of the Library
550 Pier Avenue. ? Hermosa Beach, California 90254 ? Telephone 374-8973
MINUTES of special meeting of the Friends of the Library, Monday,
April 13, 1987, 7:30 p.m. at 1250 First ST., Hermosa Beach.
The meeting was held at this address because of the urgency of the
issue and Monday being the day the library is closed.
President Charlotte Malone convened the special meeting at 7:30
p.m. No minutes were presented.
Treasurer C.W. Malone Jr., presented his treasurer's report
which was approved withexpressed appreciation for its clarity and
accuracy. The report is attached and made thereby a part of
these minutes. (It shows balancs on hand as : General Fund,
$3,227.69; EHB MEm. fund $13,592.08.
Myron Gazin and Jack Belasco reported their joint visit to the
Lomita library, where they viewed a LePac system already in
Gazin reported the system has a screen about 9x12 inches; no
keyboard per se, but a 10x3 container with buttons which provide
access to book storage via title, author or subject. The entire
county collection may be screenedvia a 3? inch disk. THe system
is easy to operate and displays clearly (Current catalog is fading
and often difficult to read.) Jack Belasco affirmed the aforesaid,
and pointed out that all our universities are now united into a
wired system. This system provides access to a combined collection of 250 million titles. He consulted university systems
experts for comparison; their advice is that the systems are admir-
able and the Le Pac price (approx. $3,000) is reasonable
proposed system.
Discussion exposed possible base price of $2,100 or $2,300 for an
"expert" model having a keyboard. A third model includes a
printer, costing about $3,000.
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virtue of this action is that it will bring the system into
Hermosa Beach much earlier than if we waited our turn in the
line of county priority. Hermosa's being a small library, it has
a low order of priority among the 93 branches in the L.A. County
library. This move is in the same spirit which causedHermosa
years ago to build its library independently in 1962, much earlier than it
it would have appeared in the county schedule.)
Donors to the LePac fund will be acknowledged by the placement
of memorial plaques.
Voting in favor: 100 percent of those present.
Respectfully ubmitted,
Patricia A. Gazin, acting secretary
PRESENT: Charlotte Malone, Jack Belasco, Bill Malone, Bertha Dorsey,
Edie Webber, Myron Gazin, Steve Hoffman, Jerome Dorsey,
Dick Pio, Patricia Gazin. Betty Evans absent, voted by proxy?