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Roll Call – The meeting was called to order at 10:10 a.m. Those members present were Carrie Cline, Alice Snodgrass, Ann Crowder-Sanders and Erlene Gideon. Sheila Owens and Rachel Abercrombie were unable to attend.
Reading of Minutes – After reading and discussing the January minutes, Ann made a motion to approve the minutes as written, Erlene seconded, and it passed unanimously.
Director’s Report –
- Carrie presented the January statistics.
- Carrie bragged on the staff and their dedication to keeping the library open during the many snow storms every day that was possible.
- Charlie Brown will be attending MOREnet’s technical conference at Tan-Tar-A, most of which has been funded by MOREnet.
- Carrie attended the Missouri State Librarian’s legislative update, and presented a list of bills which could potentially involve public libraries.
- The library received the 2011 Targeted Collections Grant totally $4100 worth of juvenile award winning titles and health and medicine books.
- The library also was notified that they received almost $20,000 in Equalization funds.
- As part of the Equalization expenditures, Carrie would like to purchase new adjustable shelving for the Noel library. The Noel Housing Authority is also doing some construction projects in the library, including new flooring. The library would love to have a grand opening at the Noel Library before the SW City grand opening, just to let Noel know that we fully support their library.
- The ordering and processing for SW City continues. The staff are all involved in the processing and the new library will be all ready to open by May.
Continue reading Board of Trustees Minutes for February 12th, 2011
The IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) Program offers free tax help for taxpayers who qualify.
Trained volunteers at Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites offer free tax filing assistance . This year’s assistance begins February 2nd and continues through April 13th. Volunteers are available only one day a week, Wednesdays from 1-7 p.m. at the American Legion building located at 103 Beeman Street in Pineville. Anyone, regardless of age, can use a VITA site for assistance. VITA volunteers help taxpayers prepare basic tax return forms. The general guideline is a limit of $49,000 a year for household income. There are no scheduled appointments- walk in only. First come-first served.
FORMS TO BRING TO A TAX ASSISTANCE SITE
When visiting VITA site, bring the following:
- Photo ID for Caller (and/or spouse, if filing jointly)
- If married filing jointly, both spouses must attend appointment.
- Social security cards for every member of the family (if a card is lost, the taxpayer must contact the social security administration to replace card prior to having taxes prepared)
- W-2s and/or 1099’s from ALL jobs worked in 2009
- A check from the taxpayer’s checking account or a savings account number for direct deposit (NOTE: The taxpayer can open a bank account or cash card at the tax site for direct deposit if they do not have an existing account.)
- Interest statements from financial institutions (if applicable)
- Tuition and student loan information (if applicable)
- Documentation from daycare provider, if taxpayer paid for child care in 2009
- Any other income information or IRS notices received
- Copy of last years tax return
 Gale PowerSearch is a search platform unlike any other, providing our libraries with a sophisticated yet simple solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference, multimedia and primary source information. Gale PowerSearch helps researchers save time through a streamlined common user interface that can be customized to match your skill levels and habits.
Gale PowerSearch features:
- Downloadable audio versions of articles in MP3 format
- Language translator in eleven languages including Spanish, French, simplified Chinese and others
- Readspeaker technology (text-to-speech)
- Tabbed results for easy source identification
- User friendly homepage with easy-to-navigate links
- and much more…
Since GALE PowerSearch is a paid subscription service, it is not normally accessible from outside the library, but we are able to offer you access to it via the McDonald County Library public computers and on our wireless network.
Stop by our library and give it a try…
See why this flexible and powerful platform has quickly become a favorite among thousands of libraries!
Roll Call – The meeting was called to order at 10 a.m. Those members present were Carrie Cline, Alice Snodgrass, Sheila Owens, Rachel Abercrombie, Erlene Gideon and Ann Crowder-Sanders. Charlie Brown attended as a guest.
Reading of Minutes – After reading and discussing the December minutes, Sheila made a motion to approve the minutes with one correction — to add Jay Mitchell’s last name in Old Business. Rachel seconded, and the minutes were passed unanimously with the one change.
Director’s Report:
- Carrie presented the December and year-end statistics.
- Once again, the library collection donations for Crosslines in lieu of fines in December, and raised over $780. This not only provides a donation to a worthy cause, but also allows patrons to clear their large fines for a lot less money to start the new year off with a clean slate.
- Carrie will present the Jesse James presentation to the Noel Senior Center this next week, weather permitting.
- The entire staff has been hard at work processing the many boxes of new materials for Southwest City.
Continue reading Board of Trustees Minutes for January 8th, 2011
 Click to view VHS  Click to view Books & Magazines  Click to view DVD Available at the Pineville Library…
- DVD’s … $2
- VHS … $1
- Audiobooks … $1
- Hardcovers … $1
- Paperbacks … 25 cents
- Magazines … 25 cents
(a few special titles may be slightly more)
Click on any of the thumbnail photos above to zoom to full size, so you may read the titles available.
First Come, First Served! Get them before they’re gone.
 Once again we’re recommending one of our favorite FREE software programs, that you can download directly to your home PC or laptop!
 This week’s featured freeware program: FrameSize 2
If you or someone you know got one of those increasingly popular Digital Photo Frames for Christmas, you’ll love this week’s Featured Freeware… Those frames are very nice, except typically they come in widescreen (16:9) sizes. Which is great for movies, but less great for digital photos which are commonly taken by digital cameras in a non-widescreen format (usually 4:3). This results in the photo frame having to display the image matted with ugly black bars down the sides, or cropped by losing the top and bottom of the picture, or “smushed / stretched” all out of proportion.
FrameSize is an application that allows you to quickly & easily overcome these limitations and produce high quality images from your digital photographs that are formatted properly and perfectly optimized for your digital photo frame.
You can download it at: http://www.freewarefiles.com/FrameSize_program_39129.html
And get more information at: http://www.leansoft.co.uk/framesize/
 The Pineville and Noel Libraries have excellent photo-quality COLOR Laser printers available for public use.
And the Pineville Library has a very FAST COLOR COPIER that also produces excellent quality photo-copies and enlargements.
These color printers & copiers are great for when you need a last-minute custom Christmas card, or family newsletter, or large copies of a family photo to share with your guests visiting from afar this holiday season. There are many websites and even some custom downloadable programs for creating these great and colorful items, which you can find online and use on our public computers here at your library! And you may use our special Graphics Computers to scan, resize & touch up your snapshots and even old Polaroids!
Our color printers can print photos and enlargements up to 8 x 10″ – and the color copier in Pineville has the ability to make huge enlargements, up to 11 x 17″ – and while the results aren’t quite as good as regular photo enlargements made from film negatives, the quality is still surprisingly sharp! And the prices are right…
- Letter sized (8.5×11″): Color prints and copies are only 50 cents per page. B&W are just 10 cents each.
- Legal sized (8.5×14″): Color prints and copies are only 60 cents per page. B&W are just 15 cents each.
- Tabloid sized (11×17″): Color copies are only 75 cents per page. B&W are just 20 cents each.
Note: Printing double-sided pages counts as two copies. And because of problems in the past with incompatible photo paper, we are not able to use anything but our own regular (high-quality) stock papers in our copiers and printers. (Sorry, our printers can’t handle your special glossy photo paper.) But the bright-matte paper we use provides excellent results.
The library staff is always available to help you with your special copying and printing needs. Please don’t hesitate to ask!
Roll Call – The meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. Those members present were Carrie Cline, Alice Snodgrass, Erlene Gideon, Ann Crowder-Sanders, Rachel Abercrombie, and Sheila Owens. Megan Hill attended as a guest.
Reading of Minutes – After reading and discussing the November minutes, Erlene made a motion to approve the minutes as written, Ann seconded, and the minutes were approved unanimously.
Director’s Report:
- Carrie presented the November statistics, noting the increase at both locations, especially Noel.
- Carrie hasn’t heard whether her Summer Reading Program grant has been funded for a third year, but either way, we will have an additional adult program this next summer.
- Shannon has returned to the staff after 6 months away, and everyone is glad to have her back!
- Jenna has been working with the Noel Housing Authority to possibly remodel the current Noel Computer Lab door to make the library more accessible.
Continue reading Board of Trustees Minutes for December 18, 2010
Once again we’re recommending one of our favorite FREE software programs, that you can download directly to your home PC or laptop!
 This week’s featured freeware program: XnView 1.97
XnView is a powerful image browser used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing graphical & video files. With the amount of photos we generally take during the holiday season, sorting and finding the best ones can be a chore… And your camera may or may not have come with software that helps. But perhaps its time to try something different that offers many more options? XnView does things like “batch renaming” (changing the filenames of photos from the usual “IMG_1234.jpg” to something more useful such as “2010 Christmas with Aunt Jane 1234.jpg”); or even automatically re-sizing and improving the focus, color, and/or contrast of a group of photos all at once! That “Batch processing” feature is something that is often missing from professional photo software, and once you learn to use it (it’s really very easy) you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it!
Unlike many new programs, this works in virtually ALL versions of Windows, MacOS, Linux, and still more!
You can download it at: http://www.xnview.com/en/download.html
And get more information at: http://www.xnview.com/en/index.html
XnView is another one of our all-time favorites… Although there are many similar programs out there (some of them we like just because they are open-source) but we’ve been using XnView here at the library on our public & staff computers for most of the past decade, and it has many amazing options we’ve not seen in anything else. It is free of charge for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organizations, so you are free to download and use it on your own home, personal computer.
 Noel’s special Christmas postmark is featured on Yahoo! News:
(For a brief period of time Tuesday morning, it was featured on the main Yahoo! page…
But things move so fast with the Internet, about 15 minutes of “fame” is all you get!)
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