Reading of Minutes – Since the April board meeting was cancelled due to lack of quorum, the March minutes were read and discussed.  Ann made a motion to approve the minutes as written, Rachel seconded, and the motion passed unanimously.

Director’s Report -

• Carrie presented the March and April statistics.
• The Summer Reading Program is almost upon us.  Children, teens, and adults can begin enrolling on Monday, and the big kick off event will be held on Friday night, June 1st at 6 p.m. behind the Pineville library.  Carrie encouraged all trustees to attend who could help.  Also, the program this year will be operated on a very tight budget, but Carrie anticipates a phenomenal program regardless.
• The Voices Youth Program has presented us with a free youth worker who can work 20 hours a week up to 240 hours.  We will have Zoe with us until August, and she will be a terrific and much-needed worker during the summer.
• The Cintas changeover was completed last week.  Bruce and Carrie took the Cintas dispensers down and installed the new ones, and Cintas came and picked everything up.

Financial Report – After reviewing the March and April financial reports, Rachel made a motion to approve them, Sheila seconded, and they were approved unanimously.

Public comments on agenda items – none

Old Business – none

New Business
A.  Budget Discussion – The expected property taxes are down so far this year, and the board discussed options for keeping the revenue coming in.  If we opted for a ten cent sales tax increase, the first increase ever for the library, it would double our income while showing up very small on property tax statements. The board recommended that the staff hand out a survey to our current library users to see what their feelings are on the subject, and the board can use their comments to proceed.

General public comments – none

Adjourn – Sheila made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Ann seconded and the meeting was adjourned at 11 a.m.  The next meeting will be held on the third Saturday in June, on June 16th.

Open to everyone:  Kids, Teens, & Adults.
The more you read, the more fun prizes you will win!

Here’s this year’s schedule…

Week 1:  Summer Reading Program Kick-Off
6 p.m. Friday, June 1st at the Pineville Library

Week 2:  Outer Space: To the Planets and Beyond
6 p.m. Tuesday, June 12th at the Southwest City Library
6 p.m. Thursday, June 14th at the Pineville Library

Week 3:  Monsters that Lurk in the Night
6 p.m. Tuesday, June 19th at the Southwest City Library
6 p.m. Thursday, June 21st at the Pineville Library

Week 4:  Let’s Party! Stories in our Pajamas
6 p.m. Tuesday, June 26th at the Southwest City Library
6 p.m. Thursday, June 28th at the Pineville Library

Week 5:  The Night Sky: The Moon and the Stars
10 a.m. Tuesday, July 3rd at the Southwest City Library
10 a.m. Thursday, July 5th at the Pineville Library

Week 6:  Nocturnal Animals – Night Creepers
10 a.m. Tuesday, July 10th at the Southwest City Library
10 a.m. Thursday, July 12th at the Pineville Library

Week 7:  Bugs on Fire
10 a.m. Tuesday, July 17th at the Southwest City Library
10 a.m. Thursday, July 19th at the Pineville Library

Week 8:  Dream Big… At Night and into the Future
10 a.m. Tuesday, July 24th at the Southwest City Library
10 a.m. Thursday, July 26th at the Pineville Library

For more information, including downloadable Registration Forms and Time Logs, check out our Summer Reading Program page!

Reading of Minutes – After reading and discussing the February minutes, Ann made a motion to approve the minutes as written, Sheila seconded, and it passed unanimously.

Director’s Report –

• Carrie presented the February statistics.
• Carrie has started attending spring Family Nights and Carnivals at the county schools to promote the Summer Reading Program, beginning tonight at the Rocky Comfort School Carnival.
• The Home School workshops have been held twice a month with outstanding attendance, and the past week was about Political Science and Government.  The kids had an election for McDonald County Sheriff, complete with a Primary Election, a General Election, and lots of campaigning.  The McDonald County Clerk’s office generously lent us a ballot box, a Vote Here sign, and I Voted stickers, which made the entire event very special.
• With the 2012 Equalization funds, the library will put out a bid soon for a concrete project out front where the stairs are crumbling.
• Ann will assist the library with finding master gardeners to help maintain the landscaping out front.

Financial Report – After reviewing the reports, Erlene made a motion to approve the financial reports, Rachel seconded, the they were approved unanimously.

Public comments on agenda items – no comments

Old Business – no old business

New Business – no new business

General public comments – no comments

Adjourn – Ann made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Erlene seconded, and the meeting was adjourned at 10:30.  The next meeting will be held on April 14th.

Reading of Minutes – After reviewing the January minutes, Sheila made a motion to accept them as written, Ann seconded, and the motion was passed unanimously.

Director’s Report

• Carrie presented the January statistics.
• Carrie received word from the Missouri State Library the the McDonald County Library would be receiving $12,253 in Equalization Funds this year.  Due to the high amount of natural disasters around the state, we have been bumped to Tier 4, but at least we are getting something.
• The library held their first spring Home School workshop last Tuesday.  We are studying the Middle Ages and kings and queens and castles, every other week at the Pineville Library.  There were over 40 attendees at the first workshop.
• Story Times continue to abound, with 40-50 attendees at the Pineville one, and 20+ at the Southwest City Library.
• Carrie showed the 2012 Summer Reading Program t-shirts and posters that had arrived.
• Atriuum was upgraded, which led to a series of slow-downs and problems.  Charlie and Bruce have been working to correct these problems.  Charlie is also setting up cameras at each library so we can talk to each other with no phone charges.

Financial Reports – After reviewing the financial reports, Rachel made a motion to accept the reports, Sheila seconded, and it passed unanimously.

Public comments on agenda items – none

Old Business – none

New Business – none

General public comments – none

Adjourn – Sheila made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Ann seconded, and the meeting was adjourned at 10:55 a.m.  The next meeting will be held on March 10th.

In 1938, the Hollywood movie “Jesse James” was filmed in the Missouri Ozarks. The movie, produced by Twentieth Century Fox and starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Nancy Kelly, was primarily filmed in McDonald County, and many of its citizens took part in the movie as extras. The film, which was a box office success, was Missouri’s first major contribution to Hollywood filmmaking history. And every August the city of Pineville continues to commemorate its role in the film with its annual “Jesse James Days” celebration.

You can view the Jesse James Movie collection, or browse the entire Missouri Digital Heritage website.

The Jesse James Movie collection includes photographs and memorabilia from the 1938 shooting of the film. These items document the arrival of Hollywood stars and production teams, the filming of the movie in Pineville and elsewhere in McDonald County, and involvement of locals. Included are on- and off-set candid shots of the movie stars.

The Missouri Digital Heritage site (formally “Virtually Missouri”) has more than 6.8 million records, including the collections of the Missouri State Archives, the Missouri State Library and more than 50 institutions from across the state. There’s a wealth of fascinating photographs, maps, state records and other historical documents. We are very pleased to be a part of this excellent resource!

Or, after you finished the first book of a series, you were excited to find and start reading the next in the series, but didn’t know which book came next?

Many times, somewhere inside or on the book’s jacket they’ll list the other titles in the series. But what if it is the first book of a series and doesn’t list the title of the next book, or you can’t find the series list in or on the book? It can sometimes be troublesome, but here’s the easy solution:

The What’s Next™: Books in Series database helps you search series fiction. (They define series as: “two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits.”) e.g. Sue Grafton’s “A is for Alibi”, “B is for…” etc. or the “Star Wars” series

Once you find the prequel or sequel book(s) you might then search our Library’s Online Catalog to see if we have them, and if they are available to checkout.

…And, if we don’t have them, remember you can also request an Inter-Library Loan.

After the first day, we will evaluate the road conditions and will reopen as soon as possible, even if the schools remain closed. If we are closed, no overdue fines will be accrued that day.
If you have questions, please contact the Pineville library at 417-223-4489.

Do you have a CD or DVD that skips or suddenly won’t work anymore,
probably due to scratches on the disk?

The Pineville library has a professional disk resurfacer that works on Audio CD’s, Movie DVD’s, Blu-ray Movies, and Game disks.

This service will remove most scratches (unless they are too deep) and puts a fine polish on the surface. The cost is only $2 per disk.

Now with Kindle e-Reader support!!! Kindle users can watch this video to see step-by-step instructions on downloading Library eBooks.

Update Jan. 2012: The Pierce County Library has some great step-by-step instructions for many different devices. (Just remember to substitute “McDonald County Library” instead of Pierce County Library” when following the instructions.)

Our Library recently joined the Missouri consortium, and partnered with OverDrive to make thousands of eBooks and Audiobooks available for loan to cardholders of the McDonald County Library!

To find eBooks and Audiobooks available for download, search Missouri Libraries 2 Go.

If you’ve never downloaded from this site before, you may find it useful to take the Guided Tour and/or read the Quick Start Guide.

Note: The Missouri Libraries 2 Go service is for our library patrons only.
You will be prompted to enter your library card information when you begin your download.
There is a limit of five (5) eBooks/Audiobooks borrowed from the Missouri Libraries 2 Go site per patron.

However, ANYONE may download as many as they please of the thousands of additional free eBook titles from Project Gutenberg.

(The Project Gutenberg eBooks are for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy them, give them away or re-use them under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with these eBooks or online at www.gutenberg.org.)

You will need to download some free software to read/listen to these downloads. It is highly recommended to either take the Guided Tour and/or read the Quick Start Guide FIRST, before you download titles. Help is available online if you need it… Give it a try!

When prompted for your library card number, enter your number EX-cluding all the leading zeroes.
For example: If the number on your library card (located underneath the barcode)  is 00091234, then enter 91234 when prompted.
If your library card number is 00123456, then enter 123456 when prompted.

No matter if you’re looking to find out something simple, like how to adjust the headlights on your 2006 Toyota Camry… Or something more technical, like how to adjust the fuel flow on a ’57 Chevy Bel Aire with a Carter 4 barrel carburetor… The ChiltonLibrary is the place to start!

ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site.

Since the ChiltonLibrary is a subscription service, we are able to offer you access to the ChiltonLibrary on the McDonald County Library public computers and on our wireless network.

Just begin by choosing a vehicle and a subject…