Bloomfield Township Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting on May 19, 2026

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   I'm going to call the meeting to order. It is 631 and I'd like to request, is there any request to remove items from the consent agenda? Nothing. No. Nothing? I'm good with the way it is. Thank you. So we need a motion then. Thank you, Linda. May I have a motion to approve the order of items for the regular and consent agenda? So moved. I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. So far so good. I would just like to welcome everyone here. Thank you for your patience. As I am assuming Shane's position for this evening, I've gotten some good tutorials. Thank you. I wanted to note, last week we were at a lovely township meeting where Laura was presenting to the township board and wonderful guests that had been there for the historical reception for Jen Marshall. And I'm excited that Laura's going to be presenting tonight as well to us. So thank you very much. You'll get the detailed overview. No, it's great. I think it's, again, it's another opportunity to take the library out of the library and into the... community so it was wonderful and so with that i'm going to pass to tara for the director's report thank you thank you joy for serving as president tonight you'll be an old pro by the end of the meeting yeah well it's may it's really warming up around here um and all the end of the school year things are happening like the art from the hills exhibition i know it's really lovely um the librarians are gearing up for summer reading and promoting it to all the schools uh kids are here studying they're very studious as per usual filling up all the white boards with their notes um it's just a fun time of year i easy for me to say because i don't have any kids in school um but summer reading will be starting in just a few weeks the summer reading challenge and the kickoff will be the usual magnitude of frenzy and fun but it won't be on a board meeting night

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   I wanted to note, last week we were at a lovely township meeting where Laura was presenting to the township board and wonderful guests that had been there for the historical reception for Jen Marshall. And I'm excited that Laura's going to be presenting tonight as well to us. So thank you very much. You'll get the detailed overview. No, it's great. I think it's, again, it's another opportunity to take the library out of the library and into the... community so it was wonderful and so with that i'm going to pass to tara for the director's report thank you thank you joy for serving as president tonight you'll be an old pro by the end of the meeting yeah well it's may it's really warming up around here um and all the end of the school year things are happening like the art from the hills exhibition i know it's really lovely um the librarians are gearing up for summer reading and promoting it to all the schools uh kids are here studying they're very studious as per usual filling up all the white boards with their notes um it's just a fun time of year i easy for me to say because i don't have any kids in school um but summer reading will be starting in just a few weeks the summer reading challenge and the kickoff will be the usual magnitude of frenzy and fun but it won't be on a board meeting night this year it's going to be on thursday uh june 18th which will be after our board meeting but we'll have food trucks and all the usual fun things um speaking of studious students studying in the library that's hard to say three times i know um we are really excited to add an opportunity to the bloomfield hills high school student population in the form of something called next chapter library in turn this was a pilot in turn this was a pilot program that was done by the Public Library Association some years ago and Larry Neal who is the director of the Clinton McComb Public Library participated he was on the PLA board I think at this time and he has brought this program here to Michigan so a couple months ago he put out a call for any library in Michigan that wants to participate in a pilot version of the next chapter library intern program and we put our hands up this is aiming toward high school students so I think it's rising sophomores juniors and so they have to be going into their junior year going into their senior year or just having graduated but not yet started college university trade school you know kind of post-secondary and the goal is to develop the next generation of librarians

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   this year it's going to be on thursday uh june 18th which will be after our board meeting but we'll have food trucks and all the usual fun things um speaking of studious students studying in the library that's hard to say three times i know um we are really excited to add an opportunity to the bloomfield hills high school student population in the form of something called next chapter library in turn this was a pilot in turn this was a pilot program that was done by the Public Library Association some years ago and Larry Neal who is the director of the Clinton McComb Public Library participated he was on the PLA board I think at this time and he has brought this program here to Michigan so a couple months ago he put out a call for any library in Michigan that wants to participate in a pilot version of the next chapter library intern program and we put our hands up this is aiming toward high school students so I think it's rising sophomores juniors and so they have to be going into their junior year going into their senior year or just having graduated but not yet started college university trade school you know kind of post-secondary and the goal is to develop the next generation of librarians and library workers specifically targeting those demographic groups who have been underrepresented traditionally in libraries so we are running this sort of like a job search we put a posting on our website we got 21 it's a paid internship the rate is $15 an hour for a nine-week period and they work 20 hours a week thank you 15 so it's about three thousand dollars that it's gonna cost the library they will get to experience all the departments in the library and get as much exposure possible. They will also have to do a capstone project if they're choosing. It could be planning a program that they come up with or something like that. There are about 10 other libraries participating in this round of pilot program, including Baldwin and West Bloomfield. So we're in line with our neighbors. And how many are we taking? One. Just one. Just one. It's competitive. Yeah, just one. Laura is running point on this with lots of support, of course, from admin. Shana Connelly is going to be the mentor. This gives her some nice

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   kind of post-secondary and the goal is to develop the next generation of librarians and library workers specifically targeting those demographic groups who have been underrepresented traditionally in libraries so we are running this sort of like a job search we put a posting on our website we got 21 it's a paid internship the rate is $15 an hour for a nine-week period and they work 20 hours a week thank you 15 so it's about three thousand dollars that it's gonna cost the library they will get to experience all the departments in the library and get as much exposure possible. They will also have to do a capstone project if they're choosing. It could be planning a program that they come up with or something like that. There are about 10 other libraries participating in this round of pilot program, including Baldwin and West Bloomfield. So we're in line with our neighbors. And how many are we taking? One. Just one. Just one. It's competitive. Yeah, just one. Laura is running point on this with lots of support, of course, from admin. Shana Connelly is going to be the mentor. This gives her some nice experience, exposure to supervision. And yeah, it's going to be great. We hope to have this person hired by June 10th, June 11th, because they have to attend a two-day orientation at Clinton-McComb Library. The mentor has to go, too. And then they'll come back here and we will show them the VTPL ways. And do they get any, besides, they can put this on their resume or college resume. Do they get any support from the schools or is this just a program? Okay. It's independent. Okay. Yeah. Good. So that's a very exciting thing we have happening. That's great. We're doing that. Yeah. I have a couple more big updates, so bear with me. A local company called E-Core Services recently approached the library and offered their services to help the library recover some savings on our electrical and gas bill. This company has, I think it's an unusual business model where they... ... have a lot of inside knowledge. That was the face I had for many months. They analyze your utility bill and looking for the proper coating. I guess there are like all these different ways things

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   of course, from admin. Shana Connelly is going to be the mentor. This gives her some nice experience, exposure to supervision. And yeah, it's going to be great. We hope to have this person hired by June 10th, June 11th, because they have to attend a two-day orientation at Clinton-McComb Library. The mentor has to go, too. And then they'll come back here and we will show them the VTPL ways. And do they get any, besides, they can put this on their resume or college resume. Do they get any support from the schools or is this just a program? Okay. It's independent. Okay. Yeah. Good. So that's a very exciting thing we have happening. That's great. We're doing that. Yeah. I have a couple more big updates, so bear with me. A local company called E-Core Services recently approached the library and offered their services to help the library recover some savings on our electrical and gas bill. This company has, I think it's an unusual business model where they... ... have a lot of inside knowledge. That was the face I had for many months. They analyze your utility bill and looking for the proper coating. I guess there are like all these different ways things could be coated. There might be service charges that we're being charged that we shouldn't or riders we could take advantage of and they will find savings for us in our electrical and gas bills. Their model, their business model is such that they only get paid if they find savings. If they find significant savings they get 50% of that savings. Five zero? Five zero. So they're going to analyze our bills for an 18 month period and over that time they'll bill us quarterly depending on what they find. If they don't find significant savings then we don't have to pay them anything. Have you, are there other organizations with whom they've worked? Yes, Bloomfield Township has been working with them for a while. In fact that's how they, they got on our, we got on their radar actually because of our weird enmeshment with the township. There was like a meter or something that they were looking around for on the township campus and they couldn't find it and then somebody thought oh that's the library. So they came our way to to talk to us. Well we did a different model. Peggy got us hooked on it because she changed her electricity I think in gas or something with a company and

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   bill and looking for the proper coating. I guess there are like all these different ways things could be coated. There might be service charges that we're being charged that we shouldn't or riders we could take advantage of and they will find savings for us in our electrical and gas bills. Their model, their business model is such that they only get paid if they find savings. If they find significant savings they get 50% of that savings. Five zero? Five zero. So they're going to analyze our bills for an 18 month period and over that time they'll bill us quarterly depending on what they find. If they don't find significant savings then we don't have to pay them anything. Have you, are there other organizations with whom they've worked? Yes, Bloomfield Township has been working with them for a while. In fact that's how they, they got on our, we got on their radar actually because of our weird enmeshment with the township. There was like a meter or something that they were looking around for on the township campus and they couldn't find it and then somebody thought oh that's the library. So they came our way to to talk to us. Well we did a different model. Peggy got us hooked on it because she changed her electricity I think in gas or something with a company and did that for about four years and there was considerable savings but then and then somehow it changed but we actually physically removed ourselves from consumers energy and went to a company and we did have considerable savings but it was was that like an alternate energy supplier yeah okay yeah no so we but we tiptoed into trying to find ways to save money so and we did for a couple of years and then it didn't work out so we went back to consumers okay so we'll see if the the promises that if they find these savings and they work with DTE and consumers to get the bills recoded and then we will get to achieve those saline savings ongoing yeah so I'll keep you posted on how that goes and then library design project updates you guys are probably interested what's going on there's really not a journal just more more meetings more comments Catherine and I participated in the construction documents page turn which is a page by page review of all the plans for all the different aspects of the program and it looks great everything looks great so that meeting went and is finished and now the

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   did that for about four years and there was considerable savings but then and then somehow it changed but we actually physically removed ourselves from consumers energy and went to a company and we did have considerable savings but it was was that like an alternate energy supplier yeah okay yeah no so we but we tiptoed into trying to find ways to save money so and we did for a couple of years and then it didn't work out so we went back to consumers okay so we'll see if the the promises that if they find these savings and they work with DTE and consumers to get the bills recoded and then we will get to achieve those saline savings ongoing yeah so I'll keep you posted on how that goes and then library design project updates you guys are probably interested what's going on there's really not a journal just more more meetings more comments Catherine and I participated in the construction documents page turn which is a page by page review of all the plans for all the different aspects of the program and it looks great everything looks great so that meeting went and is finished and now the construction documents are done so McCarthy and Smith is taking those construction documents and builds a bid package the way they do it is they bill they create a package for each division so like a drywall A painting bid, yeah. So multiple bids will be created from those construction documents and they will be put out into the world on June 3rd. But they do it. They do it. Catherine doesn't have to run this out. Yeah. They do that work. There will be a bid opening on June 24th. I don't really have a lot of details about that. I assume it'll be here. And it's always public. And then the plan will be to present a recommended bid package to you all at the July board meeting. And then we'll hire the subcontractors. And then we're just a hop, skip and a jump to the phone. Was this your first face-to-face with the new designer we're working with? Was she there? She was present for a furniture review we did. Oh my gosh, Catherine, was that the same day? No, that was about three weeks ago. Yeah. And the construction documents page turn was just a week ago. Oh, gotcha. Okay. So we had two full days, about two weeks apart, of meetings.

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   everything looks great so that meeting went and is finished and now the construction documents are done so McCarthy and Smith is taking those construction documents and builds a bid package the way they do it is they bill they create a package for each division so like a drywall A painting bid, yeah. So multiple bids will be created from those construction documents and they will be put out into the world on June 3rd. But they do it. They do it. Catherine doesn't have to run this out. Yeah. They do that work. There will be a bid opening on June 24th. I don't really have a lot of details about that. I assume it'll be here. And it's always public. And then the plan will be to present a recommended bid package to you all at the July board meeting. And then we'll hire the subcontractors. And then we're just a hop, skip and a jump to the phone. Was this your first face-to-face with the new designer we're working with? Was she there? She was present for a furniture review we did. Oh my gosh, Catherine, was that the same day? No, that was about three weeks ago. Yeah. And the construction documents page turn was just a week ago. Oh, gotcha. Okay. So we had two full days, about two weeks apart, of meetings. Okay. Yeah, we met with Brittany, the new designer, and Elena, for a furniture review. And then a walk through with McCarthy and Smith to talk about the phasing and moving plan. Okay. And then we had a shelving meeting, too, that day. And then last week was the construction documents, a review of the contract. And I swear there was something else. I know. there's a lot there's a lot but everything's in process which is really exciting they're staying close to what um oh yeah it's exactly what we planned on yeah yeah alay um britney has was briefed by chloe on all the furniture and it's all exactly what we looked at okay um in the furniture fair and the selections are there was no surprises okay yeah furniture is great um the plans are right to um i am still i'm negotiating a contract with mccarthy and smith i still have not signed a contract with them um it's a very complex contract uh several pages long and i've had jared review it um he had somebody at his office review it i've had a meeting with aaron of mccarthy and smith about it

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   So we had two full days, about two weeks apart, of meetings. Okay. Yeah, we met with Brittany, the new designer, and Elena, for a furniture review. And then a walk through with McCarthy and Smith to talk about the phasing and moving plan. Okay. And then we had a shelving meeting, too, that day. And then last week was the construction documents, a review of the contract. And I swear there was something else. I know. there's a lot there's a lot but everything's in process which is really exciting they're staying close to what um oh yeah it's exactly what we planned on yeah yeah alay um britney has was briefed by chloe on all the furniture and it's all exactly what we looked at okay um in the furniture fair and the selections are there was no surprises okay yeah furniture is great um the plans are right to um i am still i'm negotiating a contract with mccarthy and smith i still have not signed a contract with them um it's a very complex contract uh several pages long and i've had jared review it um he had somebody at his office review it i've had a meeting with aaron of mccarthy and smith about it so it's it's it's a big contract um what i one thing i learned is that through the course of this contract we will decide on a guaranteed maximum price with mccarthy and smith and then that's kind of the whole like pivot point of the relationship because they have to try to keep the construction to that guaranteed maximum price anything over that they would have to pay for so i guess that keeps them honest um we are doing a lot of internal talking about what fall is going to look like so we have some meetings set up um next week with uh adult teen and youth services to kind of you know game plan what we're going to keep what we're going to get of what staff are going to do all day I mean we're telling the librarians they can't do programs and manage their collections and that's like what they do so we have to have a lot of conversations about that we have to find places for staff so we're still really in the trenches of trying to figure out the details of this but I know that rumors are starting to fly and people are getting anxious about what what's happening in the fall so we're working in an artist on getting that going so stay tuned speaking of getting the word

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    um he had somebody at his office review it i've had a meeting with aaron of mccarthy and smith about it so it's it's it's a big contract um what i one thing i learned is that through the course of this contract we will decide on a guaranteed maximum price with mccarthy and smith and then that's kind of the whole like pivot point of the relationship because they have to try to keep the construction to that guaranteed maximum price anything over that they would have to pay for so i guess that keeps them honest um we are doing a lot of internal talking about what fall is going to look like so we have some meetings set up um next week with uh adult teen and youth services to kind of you know game plan what we're going to keep what we're going to get of what staff are going to do all day I mean we're telling the librarians they can't do programs and manage their collections and that's like what they do so we have to have a lot of conversations about that we have to find places for staff so we're still really in the trenches of trying to figure out the details of this but I know that rumors are starting to fly and people are getting anxious about what what's happening in the fall so we're working in an artist on getting that going so stay tuned speaking of getting the word out I appeared on Chuck Moss's Eye on Oakland which is produced by BCTV yesterday morning and I did talk about the design project so it's out in the world now will it be aired yesterday I don't know when it will be aired it's you can go on the BTC BCTV website and see my mug and it says there's no scheduled time yet but I'm sure it'll be on demand once it airs and then the final land and in demand that's right very in demand the last thing that I want to talk about sorry this is a long report uh our assistant department head in circulation Elizabeth Corey is retiring as of June 1st Elizabeth I know she's been with her library 25 years yeah so we uh a group effort of me lyndon and anna her manager wrote a resolution um that i would love for the board to read and put into the record and approve does is there a volunteer to

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    in an artist on getting that going so stay tuned speaking of getting the word out I appeared on Chuck Moss's Eye on Oakland which is produced by BCTV yesterday morning and I did talk about the design project so it's out in the world now will it be aired yesterday I don't know when it will be aired it's you can go on the BTC BCTV website and see my mug and it says there's no scheduled time yet but I'm sure it'll be on demand once it airs and then the final land and in demand that's right very in demand the last thing that I want to talk about sorry this is a long report uh our assistant department head in circulation Elizabeth Corey is retiring as of June 1st Elizabeth I know she's been with her library 25 years yeah so we uh a group effort of me lyndon and anna her manager wrote a resolution um that i would love for the board to read and put into the record and approve does is there a volunteer to read this resolution i'll read it great thank you judy bloomfield township public library resolution whereas elizabeth corey served the bloomfield township public library and community as a circulation assistant department head since july 2001 first beginning library employment as a full-time circulation clerk in december 18 on december 18 2000 and whereas she has remained committed to providing excellent public service and dedicated dedicated to a higher standard of care for our patrons and staff and whereas her invaluable assistance during the 2006 construction project for the logistics and planning of adult youth services moves as well as circulations transition to a temporary location and then to the renovated space her work on the tour committee her assistance with planning implementing this is a long sentence circulation procedures for the heart rfid conversion the creation of the quick ready reference her vision and work on the informational internet guide named info circ and a perpetual pursuit of growth and learning through workshops and resources and resources and whereas her intention to detail and precision has made the circulation department statistics of work of art ensuring through the years of

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    would love for the board to read and put into the record and approve does is there a volunteer to read this resolution i'll read it great thank you judy bloomfield township public library resolution whereas elizabeth corey served the bloomfield township public library and community as a circulation assistant department head since july 2001 first beginning library employment as a full-time circulation clerk in december 18 on december 18 2000 and whereas she has remained committed to providing excellent public service and dedicated dedicated to a higher standard of care for our patrons and staff and whereas her invaluable assistance during the 2006 construction project for the logistics and planning of adult youth services moves as well as circulations transition to a temporary location and then to the renovated space her work on the tour committee her assistance with planning implementing this is a long sentence circulation procedures for the heart rfid conversion the creation of the quick ready reference her vision and work on the informational internet guide named info circ and a perpetual pursuit of growth and learning through workshops and resources and resources and whereas her intention to detail and precision has made the circulation department statistics of work of art ensuring through the years of reports for the physical circulating collection were accurately documented whereas elizabeth continually supported her role in the department including ongoing consideration in hiring and supervising library assistants is and pages thank you and pages contribution contributions to the hr program committee and updates to the page hiring process creating procedures for circulation standards of service mentoring her team and leading with kindness as a manager and supervisor now therefore let it be resolved the bloomfield township public library of trustees commends elizabeth corey on retirement heartfelt thanks to her for over 25 years of service to the community as a dedicated steward and valued colleague that is so nice that is nice very nice she'll be thrilled yeah thank you for that joy's signature on this and we're having a party for elizabeth next wednesday afternoon you're all invited it'll be downstairs and meeting room 1 12 to 3 if you want to stop by and say say so long to enjoy your next chapter yeah she's going to be taking care of her grandpa she's got these babies well actually i guess they're probably two yeah they're like toddlers

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    reports for the physical circulating collection were accurately documented whereas elizabeth continually supported her role in the department including ongoing consideration in hiring and supervising library assistants is and pages thank you and pages contribution contributions to the hr program committee and updates to the page hiring process creating procedures for circulation standards of service mentoring her team and leading with kindness as a manager and supervisor now therefore let it be resolved the bloomfield township public library of trustees commends elizabeth corey on retirement heartfelt thanks to her for over 25 years of service to the community as a dedicated steward and valued colleague that is so nice that is nice very nice she'll be thrilled yeah thank you for that joy's signature on this and we're having a party for elizabeth next wednesday afternoon you're all invited it'll be downstairs and meeting room 1 12 to 3 if you want to stop by and say say so long to enjoy your next chapter yeah she's going to be taking care of her grandpa she's got these babies well actually i guess they're probably two yeah they're like toddlers and that's my reward and that's my reward thank you um very informative um a lot going on there's a lot going on okay we're moving on to the budget are there any questions or comments about cash disbursements monthly revenues expenditures no I have nothing no just that it's a it was a month of three payrolls and that's always yeah a big analogy yeah you know just the way that calendar lands all kinds of other charges on there too yeah was it like half a million this time yeah yeah five hundred thousand yeah okay so I have a motion to approve the monthly cash disbursements in the form of several checks noted on the motion for a grand total of seven hundred and thirty six thousand seven sixty four and seventy five cents yeah set oh great all in favor all

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    of her grandpa she's got these babies well actually i guess they're probably two yeah they're like toddlers and that's my reward and that's my reward thank you um very informative um a lot going on there's a lot going on okay we're moving on to the budget are there any questions or comments about cash disbursements monthly revenues expenditures no I have nothing no just that it's a it was a month of three payrolls and that's always yeah a big analogy yeah you know just the way that calendar lands all kinds of other charges on there too yeah was it like half a million this time yeah yeah five hundred thousand yeah okay so I have a motion to approve the monthly cash disbursements in the form of several checks noted on the motion for a grand total of seven hundred and thirty six thousand seven sixty four and seventy five cents yeah set oh great all in favor all in favor aye thank you thank you thank you all right we are moving to the call to the public and I think we have Allison here as our SOC representative my first board meeting here yes very calm and lovely appreciate it very much um but yes thank you for having us um me as part of the soc um and so our may june casual day funds beneficiary we decided is freedom reads which was founded in 2020 they're the only organization in the nation using literature design and architecture to create transformative experiences for people in prison and to meaningfully elevate the dignity of millions of people excuse me in this country touched by the criminal legal system so basically they not only provide the books but they build these gorgeous shelving units for libraries so that people who are incarcerated have access to information

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    thousand seven sixty four and seventy five cents yeah set oh great all in favor all in favor aye thank you thank you thank you all right we are moving to the call to the public and I think we have Allison here as our SOC representative my first board meeting here yes very calm and lovely appreciate it very much um but yes thank you for having us um me as part of the soc um and so our may june casual day funds beneficiary we decided is freedom reads which was founded in 2020 they're the only organization in the nation using literature design and architecture to create transformative experiences for people in prison and to meaningfully elevate the dignity of millions of people excuse me in this country touched by the criminal legal system so basically they not only provide the books but they build these gorgeous shelving units for libraries so that people who are incarcerated have access to information um and the freedom libraries are objects of beauty handcrafted by teams that include people who serve time in prison so if you want to take a look and we have started posting these on our intranet um in the staff huddles and then over near the little sign-up sheet where people say that they have donated money to wear jeans on friday so that um hoping that it helps people understand that that money is going to a non-profit and understanding who we're supporting so that is really nice yeah um kathy had suggested that one and we're all very excited to go with it um what else do we have to share that you're good great thank you i think the only other thing this time of year is graduation party right do we have any graduates no there's no cake okay we've done two calls i think yeah i'll do one more maybe people are shy i'll just say crazy wants cake graduating from either high school college so i mean any type of we are graduating there is a ceremony something first

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    shelving units for libraries so that people who are incarcerated have access to information um and the freedom libraries are objects of beauty handcrafted by teams that include people who serve time in prison so if you want to take a look and we have started posting these on our intranet um in the staff huddles and then over near the little sign-up sheet where people say that they have donated money to wear jeans on friday so that um hoping that it helps people understand that that money is going to a non-profit and understanding who we're supporting so that is really nice yeah um kathy had suggested that one and we're all very excited to go with it um what else do we have to share that you're good great thank you i think the only other thing this time of year is graduation party right do we have any graduates no there's no cake okay we've done two calls i think yeah i'll do one more maybe people are shy i'll just say crazy wants cake graduating from either high school college so i mean any type of we are graduating there is a ceremony something first yeah we really don't need a reason for cake we can just know when i'm going from bronze three to bronze four and dance next week i mean it sounds like a reason for it yeah that counts she's graduating do we need to motion for that yeah we just need to show you the steps right no yeah let's not do that oh yes suicidal time maybe that could be the first program once the renovation is there we go there you go we'll join you thank you for being here it's my pleasure this is great thank you thank you and you're getting your cake now great all worth it i needed it too um i don't believe we have any unfinished business so we're going to move to new business and that will be laura talking about our historical project yeah so laura crailey is to present to you about our history collection which we've um rebranded because we have this really exciting new online digital archive that laura's gonna talk to you more about but um laura just brings to the library a wealth of experience and knowledge and passion for local history which

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    high school college so i mean any type of we are graduating there is a ceremony something first yeah we really don't need a reason for cake we can just know when i'm going from bronze three to bronze four and dance next week i mean it sounds like a reason for it yeah that counts she's graduating do we need to motion for that yeah we just need to show you the steps right no yeah let's not do that oh yes suicidal time maybe that could be the first program once the renovation is there we go there you go we'll join you thank you for being here it's my pleasure this is great thank you thank you and you're getting your cake now great all worth it i needed it too um i don't believe we have any unfinished business so we're going to move to new business and that will be laura talking about our historical project yeah so laura crailey is to present to you about our history collection which we've um rebranded because we have this really exciting new online digital archive that laura's gonna talk to you more about but um laura just brings to the library a wealth of experience and knowledge and passion for local history which if you don't like local history it can be tedious boring and seem insignificant but laura brings a lot of who doesn't love local history i don't know who doesn't love it but laura really loves it and she's really good she's really good at it she's a great liaison with the one field historical society and she and i um have kind of guided a lot of investment in the local history collection um and i'm just excited for her to talk about local history so you can have my seat thanks um great so like tara said uh i have one of the charges that i have as department head for adult and teen services is that i oversee the local history uh collections in the library uh many of you know some of you may not know uh we didn't really have a dedicated local history collection until the most recent expansion of the building in 2008. that was something we got community feedback on at the time i wasn't here but i i know that that was the case

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    just brings to the library a wealth of experience and knowledge and passion for local history which if you don't like local history it can be tedious boring and seem insignificant but laura brings a lot of who doesn't love local history i don't know who doesn't love it but laura really loves it and she's really good she's really good at it she's a great liaison with the one field historical society and she and i um have kind of guided a lot of investment in the local history collection um and i'm just excited for her to talk about local history so you can have my seat thanks um great so like tara said uh i have one of the charges that i have as department head for adult and teen services is that i oversee the local history uh collections in the library uh many of you know some of you may not know uh we didn't really have a dedicated local history collection until the most recent expansion of the building in 2008. that was something we got community feedback on at the time i wasn't here but i i know that that was the case and so that portion of the collection in a dedicated space was you know kind of made out of some things that are already in the collection that um various things over time have happened um the Bloomfield Historical Society of course are great partners with us um but when I came in one of the things um when Carol hired me was that she said I really would like you to take take this on it and take this more seriously so um I hope I have made her proud and the things that we have done um kind of culminating in this edition of a digital archive so we have of course the physical collection there's a portion of the collection that's accessible to the public both circulating and reference materials there's of course the archive room which are things that is librarian mediated access right so you can look at the things in there but a librarian has to get them for you you can only use them physically in the building preferably within the eye line of a librarian um people from previous experience not so far at this library people have the bad habit of wanting to uh cut their own pictures out of their yearbooks and I'm like you cut your own picture out I know it's you right why unless it's like your deadly enemy why would you do that I don't know um so um just you know in that way where things in the

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    and so that portion of the collection in a dedicated space was you know kind of made out of some things that are already in the collection that um various things over time have happened um the Bloomfield Historical Society of course are great partners with us um but when I came in one of the things um when Carol hired me was that she said I really would like you to take take this on it and take this more seriously so um I hope I have made her proud and the things that we have done um kind of culminating in this edition of a digital archive so we have of course the physical collection there's a portion of the collection that's accessible to the public both circulating and reference materials there's of course the archive room which are things that is librarian mediated access right so you can look at the things in there but a librarian has to get them for you you can only use them physically in the building preferably within the eye line of a librarian um people from previous experience not so far at this library people have the bad habit of wanting to uh cut their own pictures out of their yearbooks and I'm like you cut your own picture out I know it's you right why unless it's like your deadly enemy why would you do that I don't know um so um just you know in that way where things in the archive are unique right hard to replace um you know singular so we do try and keep that with the addition of this digital archive which is built on a platform called recollect if I reference recollect that's what I'm talking about trying very hard after a year of meetings with recollect like every week to not just use that word we're seeing digital archive uh the digital archive allows us to expand access particularly to those archival materials so that includes anyone who has an internet connection across the world can now look at the things that are in this digital archive so on our website which is how you access it under research you will see that it now says history collection instead of local history uh with the help of richard in it this page has been completely rebuilt uh literally from a large piece of paper that i drew on because that is how i was chose to communicate to him and he did an unbelievable job so well played richard he did not mock me when i showed up on the piece of paper so right here at the very top this is a brand new logo created by amber rose in admin kind of echoing the architecture of the building the roof um you know beams all that good stuff where you can browse the history collection um and then

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    enemy why would you do that I don't know um so um just you know in that way where things in the archive are unique right hard to replace um you know singular so we do try and keep that with the addition of this digital archive which is built on a platform called recollect if I reference recollect that's what I'm talking about trying very hard after a year of meetings with recollect like every week to not just use that word we're seeing digital archive uh the digital archive allows us to expand access particularly to those archival materials so that includes anyone who has an internet connection across the world can now look at the things that are in this digital archive so on our website which is how you access it under research you will see that it now says history collection instead of local history uh with the help of richard in it this page has been completely rebuilt uh literally from a large piece of paper that i drew on because that is how i was chose to communicate to him and he did an unbelievable job so well played richard he did not mock me when i showed up on the piece of paper so right here at the very top this is a brand new logo created by amber rose in admin kind of echoing the architecture of the building the roof um you know beams all that good stuff where you can browse the history collection um and then kind of any event that we have that has history in it will be here um you know looking forward to adding things i was just at the robert j brown family history seminar at the archive of michigan this past weekend looking forward to kind of adding things like that maybe out in the community as well as here for people to know about um local history resources again kind of the things that i get i direct people to most frequently they're here of course a shout out for the wonderful Bloomfield Historical Society. BCTV did a great little spot for us on the history collection. So this is really fun. We have it embedded here. And then some genealogy resources, because of course, we do consider genealogy to be part of this local history kind of collection, right? Again, just kind of those most common things. But you really want to see this fabulous new digital archive, right? So this is a very robust modern searchable platforms. So everything that we've placed on here is searchable. This is it's almost infinite. And Brandy is our person that we work with at the company. And she'll say all these things that I'm like, Brandy, this is too many options. Like it does too much. It almost does

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    the roof um you know beams all that good stuff where you can browse the history collection um and then kind of any event that we have that has history in it will be here um you know looking forward to adding things i was just at the robert j brown family history seminar at the archive of michigan this past weekend looking forward to kind of adding things like that maybe out in the community as well as here for people to know about um local history resources again kind of the things that i get i direct people to most frequently they're here of course a shout out for the wonderful Bloomfield Historical Society. BCTV did a great little spot for us on the history collection. So this is really fun. We have it embedded here. And then some genealogy resources, because of course, we do consider genealogy to be part of this local history kind of collection, right? Again, just kind of those most common things. But you really want to see this fabulous new digital archive, right? So this is a very robust modern searchable platforms. So everything that we've placed on here is searchable. This is it's almost infinite. And Brandy is our person that we work with at the company. And she'll say all these things that I'm like, Brandy, this is too many options. Like it does too much. It almost does too much. It does so many things. So we're really just getting started with the capabilities of this. There's several sites sites across the United States. And they are specifically for a museum, archive and library audience. So we're not adapting museum software or things that aren't suited to what we're trying to do. There's these great little organized collections, you know, here right now, what's on here is pretty much the things we already had had digitized. Of course, the big thing is the eccentric, which I'm hoping to continue now that we have a place a good place to put it. This browse all on the side literally does what it does when it says on the box, right? It shows you everything. So 4,648 items. Again, the great majority of those are customers. newspapers but it can accommodate almost any type of file um it can do video it can do photographs it can do pdfs it can do jpegs it can do any kind of document you there's even an option to do 3d objects like if you were a museum and you had scanned something that was three-dimensional you can upload that on here and like manipulate it around it's unbelievable so we're not that hardcore quite yet but maybe someday um you know so when you click into something it'll give you

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    this is too many options. Like it does too much. It almost does too much. It does so many things. So we're really just getting started with the capabilities of this. There's several sites sites across the United States. And they are specifically for a museum, archive and library audience. So we're not adapting museum software or things that aren't suited to what we're trying to do. There's these great little organized collections, you know, here right now, what's on here is pretty much the things we already had had digitized. Of course, the big thing is the eccentric, which I'm hoping to continue now that we have a place a good place to put it. This browse all on the side literally does what it does when it says on the box, right? It shows you everything. So 4,648 items. Again, the great majority of those are customers. newspapers but it can accommodate almost any type of file um it can do video it can do photographs it can do pdfs it can do jpegs it can do any kind of document you there's even an option to do 3d objects like if you were a museum and you had scanned something that was three-dimensional you can upload that on here and like manipulate it around it's unbelievable so we're not that hardcore quite yet but maybe someday um you know so when you click into something it'll give you um again kind of you these pages again it's almost infinite right any collection can have these any person um i'm working on a page about john marshall um right now because we just got a massive donation of all of his research that will be making its way onto here um but then it lays it out here's all the all the issues you can click in i think that's a cranberry one and it will show you oh no this beautiful magazine scrolling through um again there's almost an infinite amount of information you can put in here with all of these things um you can email it you can email about it and say hey i really like a copy of that you know sort of a thing just all these amazing um features the um newspapers are really fun again because they are now searchable which was the number one thing that um we couldn't do this you know of course some of the older ones are quite old they're not quite as good to see but you can zoom in zoom out forward back search for search for items my sample search all along in general has been mastodon because i know

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    hardcore quite yet but maybe someday um you know so when you click into something it'll give you um again kind of you these pages again it's almost infinite right any collection can have these any person um i'm working on a page about john marshall um right now because we just got a massive donation of all of his research that will be making its way onto here um but then it lays it out here's all the all the issues you can click in i think that's a cranberry one and it will show you oh no this beautiful magazine scrolling through um again there's almost an infinite amount of information you can put in here with all of these things um you can email it you can email about it and say hey i really like a copy of that you know sort of a thing just all these amazing um features the um newspapers are really fun again because they are now searchable which was the number one thing that um we couldn't do this you know of course some of the older ones are quite old they're not quite as good to see but you can zoom in zoom out forward back search for search for items my sample search all along in general has been mastodon because i know that there's materials about the bloomfield mastodon in here and it gives you a good good result so it's in john's history of section 24 book it's in the eccentric um when you hit these little preview let's try and find one here's one with two it actually pops you right to the citation on the page of what you know what you're looking for you say yeah actually that looks good and it zaps you right loose right in hang on this is what i get i'm always doing this because i'm looking at the big screen and not my computer oh yeah and i it freaks me out my eyes out but anyway it'll pop you right in who is doing the scanning so great question um my next step is to probably purchase a really high quality scanner for us um specifically for the eccentric when i was at pla recently i found out that you can actually rent some of these really specialized scanners they have automated ones now for microfilm where you just put it on and it all the way through obviously someone trusts it but previously you would have to advance to the page yeah take it advance to the next page take it put it in a pdf do all this um so we really have

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    that there's materials about the bloomfield mastodon in here and it gives you a good good result so it's in john's history of section 24 book it's in the eccentric um when you hit these little preview let's try and find one here's one with two it actually pops you right to the citation on the page of what you know what you're looking for you say yeah actually that looks good and it zaps you right loose right in hang on this is what i get i'm always doing this because i'm looking at the big screen and not my computer oh yeah and i it freaks me out my eyes out but anyway it'll pop you right in who is doing the scanning so great question um my next step is to probably purchase a really high quality scanner for us um specifically for the eccentric when i was at pla recently i found out that you can actually rent some of these really specialized scanners they have automated ones now for microfilm where you just put it on and it all the way through obviously someone trusts it but previously you would have to advance to the page yeah take it advance to the next page take it put it in a pdf do all this um so we really have some scope was already done oh okay so this we had volunteers for many many years the pandemic really broke that habit yeah but we had gotten into the mid 60s right it was 64. so so we've got a lot of it done and yeah we've had the long running goal of bringing that resuming it now that we've got this it's a really nice place to be able to direct people it's actually full featured and people can access it and it's searchable and so many things that we just didn't have before um so you know as i i'd like to say now we have a place to put things right um we've gotten some really excellent donations recently from various sources i'm so looking forward to getting them on there um but yeah we're you know i'm hoping you know peterra was saying what are the librarians going to do when they're not programming and they're not working on their collection and i'm like any well well well how many of you would like to work on the local history collection you do great um you know so there's a lot of work um to be done here i'm really fortunate right now to have a volunteer working for me who has just done she has not balked at any random thing i have asked her to do she's just lovely there's these newspapers and i'm like i don't know maria do your best she's got she's like came up with a whole idea of how to copy them and do all this

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    some scope was already done oh okay so this we had volunteers for many many years the pandemic really broke that habit yeah but we had gotten into the mid 60s right it was 64. so so we've got a lot of it done and yeah we've had the long running goal of bringing that resuming it now that we've got this it's a really nice place to be able to direct people it's actually full featured and people can access it and it's searchable and so many things that we just didn't have before um so you know as i i'd like to say now we have a place to put things right um we've gotten some really excellent donations recently from various sources i'm so looking forward to getting them on there um but yeah we're you know i'm hoping you know peterra was saying what are the librarians going to do when they're not programming and they're not working on their collection and i'm like any well well well how many of you would like to work on the local history collection you do great um you know so there's a lot of work um to be done here i'm really fortunate right now to have a volunteer working for me who has just done she has not balked at any random thing i have asked her to do she's just lovely there's these newspapers and i'm like i don't know maria do your best she's got she's like came up with a whole idea of how to copy them and do all this and i'm like yes thank you um so i'm looking forward to you know hopefully maybe building up a volunteer corps to help with this you know we'll see maybe we'll hire someone in the future who is a real part instead of just someone who really, really, really loves history, like myself. But in closing, I think local history is one of the things that can never be taken away from a library, right? Amazon is not going to tell the story of Bloomfield Township, right? No one's going to do that except us. And I think that this is something we can really excel at and make a signature for this library. And hopefully this is something that can endure long past the time when Tara's here, when I'm here, you know, we're setting ourselves a really strong foundation, you know, to move forward. And I'm grateful that the library was willing to make this investment. And not just of my time, but monetarily supporting it, saying, yes, you can do all these programs. Yes, you can have people bring you boxes of random things anytime the library is open. You know, it's really been a great project. I'm just so, so excited it's finally out there. Wow, that's great. Thank you. Of course. I have a question. Of course. One is I just need to be

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    your best she's got she's like came up with a whole idea of how to copy them and do all this and i'm like yes thank you um so i'm looking forward to you know hopefully maybe building up a volunteer corps to help with this you know we'll see maybe we'll hire someone in the future who is a real part instead of just someone who really, really, really loves history, like myself. But in closing, I think local history is one of the things that can never be taken away from a library, right? Amazon is not going to tell the story of Bloomfield Township, right? No one's going to do that except us. And I think that this is something we can really excel at and make a signature for this library. And hopefully this is something that can endure long past the time when Tara's here, when I'm here, you know, we're setting ourselves a really strong foundation, you know, to move forward. And I'm grateful that the library was willing to make this investment. And not just of my time, but monetarily supporting it, saying, yes, you can do all these programs. Yes, you can have people bring you boxes of random things anytime the library is open. You know, it's really been a great project. I'm just so, so excited it's finally out there. Wow, that's great. Thank you. Of course. I have a question. Of course. One is I just need to be reminded where our local history area will be. So it's going to be where the teen collection is now. It's going to kind of swap if you think about it that way. Which again, that's a major investment on your part too, is saying, yes, we do want to, you know, preserve this and make a nice new archive and really think purpose built. You know, it's been really gratifying to say. yeah you know I'd really like it to be like this and we need to leave some room for this and you know again it's really something that I think we can be we are singularly well suited you know to do and again particularly because the historical society is not a collecting institution right you know they don't have unlike Birmingham right they don't have a museum they don't have a location we are that location so you know it's and tell me about the the financial commitment is is recollect a subscription or as a service yeah so it is how and how often yearly okay we had an initial setup fee which we actually used gift money to pay for a gentleman had given us a very large donation but he wanted it to go for newspapers

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    out there. Wow, that's great. Thank you. Of course. I have a question. Of course. One is I just need to be reminded where our local history area will be. So it's going to be where the teen collection is now. It's going to kind of swap if you think about it that way. Which again, that's a major investment on your part too, is saying, yes, we do want to, you know, preserve this and make a nice new archive and really think purpose built. You know, it's been really gratifying to say. yeah you know I'd really like it to be like this and we need to leave some room for this and you know again it's really something that I think we can be we are singularly well suited you know to do and again particularly because the historical society is not a collecting institution right you know they don't have unlike Birmingham right they don't have a museum they don't have a location we are that location so you know it's and tell me about the the financial commitment is is recollect a subscription or as a service yeah so it is how and how often yearly okay we had an initial setup fee which we actually used gift money to pay for a gentleman had given us a very large donation but he wanted it to go for newspapers and we just could never figure out quite how to spend it because like I would buy every newspaper in the world if they would actually come here give it to me and come here you know and then you don't want to spend it on something like a database that's a little more ephemeral you know so this kind of really seemed like the best way to serve that gift right um and you know get us get us started here and then yep it's a subscription everything's cloud-based which is really wonderful um they don't like cut you off if you go over your limit they're just like hey you need some more space here's how we do that you know um they've really been brilliant brilliant to work with. I was even more glad that we chose to go with them because they're really the first solution I've seen that again is as powerful as the thing is you can start out like this and then build up to that. The Arizona Memory Project is the one that our rep had worked on previously if there's a that's kind of a fully fledged site if you wanted to take a look and kind of see what it what it could be what it will be what it will be in the future so make sure you

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    pay for a gentleman had given us a very large donation but he wanted it to go for newspapers and we just could never figure out quite how to spend it because like I would buy every newspaper in the world if they would actually come here give it to me and come here you know and then you don't want to spend it on something like a database that's a little more ephemeral you know so this kind of really seemed like the best way to serve that gift right um and you know get us get us started here and then yep it's a subscription everything's cloud-based which is really wonderful um they don't like cut you off if you go over your limit they're just like hey you need some more space here's how we do that you know um they've really been brilliant brilliant to work with. I was even more glad that we chose to go with them because they're really the first solution I've seen that again is as powerful as the thing is you can start out like this and then build up to that. The Arizona Memory Project is the one that our rep had worked on previously if there's a that's kind of a fully fledged site if you wanted to take a look and kind of see what it what it could be what it will be what it will be in the future so make sure you share your news with Deb Rice the Archivist at Cranbrook because I'm sure she would be absolutely thrilled I think there might be things that yes on that one magazine at first because we were in the room yeah yeah and we saw the cover and I shared it with them the idea yeah yeah we I've been doing my like tour of talking to people right which you guys you know are too because you're out in the community and of course always advocating for the library but Cranbrook is in my kind of next tier now that I've done the township I've done to talk to you all obviously historical society I'm talking to the investors in October but my next friends my next tier is things like Oakland County Genealogical Society Cranbrook Oakland County Historical Society Greater West Bloomfield take a meeting with Leslie in Birmingham and just kind of get the word out there like hey we've got this really cool thing you know if you know someone who's trying to do this send them our way because that's another thing too you get great ideas for acquisitions or how to prioritize things you know if you're suddenly getting a billion about this one thing you think gee I really should buy more in that area or I should privilege that for scanning or you know do those things because it's so many decisions right you know every archive has things that will never make it to something like this platform because it all has a cost it has a

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    kind of see what it what it could be what it will be what it will be in the future so make sure you share your news with Deb Rice the Archivist at Cranbrook because I'm sure she would be absolutely thrilled I think there might be things that yes on that one magazine at first because we were in the room yeah yeah and we saw the cover and I shared it with them the idea yeah yeah we I've been doing my like tour of talking to people right which you guys you know are too because you're out in the community and of course always advocating for the library but Cranbrook is in my kind of next tier now that I've done the township I've done to talk to you all obviously historical society I'm talking to the investors in October but my next friends my next tier is things like Oakland County Genealogical Society Cranbrook Oakland County Historical Society Greater West Bloomfield take a meeting with Leslie in Birmingham and just kind of get the word out there like hey we've got this really cool thing you know if you know someone who's trying to do this send them our way because that's another thing too you get great ideas for acquisitions or how to prioritize things you know if you're suddenly getting a billion about this one thing you think gee I really should buy more in that area or I should privilege that for scanning or you know do those things because it's so many decisions right you know every archive has things that will never make it to something like this platform because it all has a cost it has a time cost it has a maintenance cost you know digitization is great for access but maybe not so much for preservation you know because you have to keep forward migrating the file formats and doing all these things and you know IT is so patient but you know I keep coming up being like this and they're like okay yeah we'll figure it out the oral histories they really did me a solid on because they were in like an option they had been real to real put on CDs in an obsolete file format so then they had to find a converter software to take it from the obsolete file format to something that would work with this and like it was a high priority for me right because I knew that's something that you know no computers have CPU drives anymore like how do we keep this as possible yeah you know but that doesn't stop with this you've got to keep putting it writing it forward we are lucky to have so tech experts yeah it is still eight years and it's like the greatest imaginable luxury to me to call someone and be like Mary it's not working as I did at 610 today to be like instead of me instead of me going right you know in a panic so when you say oral history had

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    it to something like this platform because it all has a cost it has a time cost it has a maintenance cost you know digitization is great for access but maybe not so much for preservation you know because you have to keep forward migrating the file formats and doing all these things and you know IT is so patient but you know I keep coming up being like this and they're like okay yeah we'll figure it out the oral histories they really did me a solid on because they were in like an option they had been real to real put on CDs in an obsolete file format so then they had to find a converter software to take it from the obsolete file format to something that would work with this and like it was a high priority for me right because I knew that's something that you know no computers have CPU drives anymore like how do we keep this as possible yeah you know but that doesn't stop with this you've got to keep putting it writing it forward we are lucky to have so tech experts yeah it is still eight years and it's like the greatest imaginable luxury to me to call someone and be like Mary it's not working as I did at 610 today to be like instead of me instead of me going right you know in a panic so when you say oral history had people take their I mean where they ask questions or they were they're like interviews they're very singular and they're not transcribed which is another big project that again I'm hoping maybe when we're we're not doing programming something people might might work on we'll see so they were just giving about their like living here yeah I always do this one first anyway they're really old so you have to be kind of careful when you listen it might be volume I did my volume with the USB oh hang on um um where were you born? I was born in Omaha on Lincoln's birthday in 1894, February 12th. I see and had your family living in Omaha so um you can tell they really need some help um but you know again there's a you can actually once it's transcribed you can actually put the transcript in here and it'll automate over the thing it's unbelievable and again once it's transcribed it's searchable right so but anyway so I could spend the

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    people take their I mean where they ask questions or they were they're like interviews they're very singular and they're not transcribed which is another big project that again I'm hoping maybe when we're we're not doing programming something people might might work on we'll see so they were just giving about their like living here yeah I always do this one first anyway they're really old so you have to be kind of careful when you listen it might be volume I did my volume with the USB oh hang on um um where were you born? I was born in Omaha on Lincoln's birthday in 1894, February 12th. I see and had your family living in Omaha so um you can tell they really need some help um but you know again there's a you can actually once it's transcribed you can actually put the transcript in here and it'll automate over the thing it's unbelievable and again once it's transcribed it's searchable right so but anyway so I could spend the rest of your meeting talking about it obviously but if any of you ever have more questions or you want to talk about it you know or you can think of a place you know that you want me to go um and and talk about it I'm always you you always always willing to do that that's never a problem also always looking for items yes the collection so if you run into folks in the neighborhood who yes have important documents or yearbooks or not I try and say not a flat that you see so things like books yes no kind of the assassination materials please he was not assassinated in Bloomfield Township yes it was very important but it didn't happen here so people really want to give you that and I'm like um but phone books we do on our website we do the twice-yearly history harvests in conjunction with the Historical Society where we say hey I always say my guarantee is I can guarantee I will take a look I can't guarantee I will take it especially if it's an object I had a gentleman try and donate me his model of a wigwam and I was like this is a very excellent model of a wigwam but I cannot accept it for the collection because I do not have any place to put it I can't preserve

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    once it's transcribed it's searchable right so but anyway so I could spend the rest of your meeting talking about it obviously but if any of you ever have more questions or you want to talk about it you know or you can think of a place you know that you want me to go um and and talk about it I'm always you you always always willing to do that that's never a problem also always looking for items yes the collection so if you run into folks in the neighborhood who yes have important documents or yearbooks or not I try and say not a flat that you see so things like books yes no kind of the assassination materials please he was not assassinated in Bloomfield Township yes it was very important but it didn't happen here so people really want to give you that and I'm like um but phone books we do on our website we do the twice-yearly history harvests in conjunction with the Historical Society where we say hey I always say my guarantee is I can guarantee I will take a look I can't guarantee I will take it especially if it's an object I had a gentleman try and donate me his model of a wigwam and I was like this is a very excellent model of a wigwam but I cannot accept it for the collection because I do not have any place to put it I can't preserve it I can't conserve it there's just exactly is this wigwam for Bloomfield Township no okay um you know we do have some very small objects like we have a couple police badges you know things like that but we're not a museum I can't really accept like big things um I can do paper you know things like maps photographs like she said phone books yearbooks um I have a little enumeration a little enumeration um yeah Yeah, actively collecting items like yearbooks, city directories, photographs, printed ephemera. So that's even things like menus, postcards, garden club newsletters. I've got a nice collection of those, which are really cool. Church histories, synagogue histories, you know, anything like that. I'm very, I'm, we're actively collecting because again, this is a really young collection. You know, it hasn't even really, we haven't been collecting for 20 years yet. So, you know, we've got a lot of, a lot of ground to make up for that. So that's good stuff. A lot of room to throw. Yes, a lot of room to throw. Thank you so much for coming in. Anytime. Yes, please do, please do. And like I said, I'm ready to be sent forth.

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    but I cannot accept it for the collection because I do not have any place to put it I can't preserve it I can't conserve it there's just exactly is this wigwam for Bloomfield Township no okay um you know we do have some very small objects like we have a couple police badges you know things like that but we're not a museum I can't really accept like big things um I can do paper you know things like maps photographs like she said phone books yearbooks um I have a little enumeration a little enumeration um yeah Yeah, actively collecting items like yearbooks, city directories, photographs, printed ephemera. So that's even things like menus, postcards, garden club newsletters. I've got a nice collection of those, which are really cool. Church histories, synagogue histories, you know, anything like that. I'm very, I'm, we're actively collecting because again, this is a really young collection. You know, it hasn't even really, we haven't been collecting for 20 years yet. So, you know, we've got a lot of, a lot of ground to make up for that. So that's good stuff. A lot of room to throw. Yes, a lot of room to throw. Thank you so much for coming in. Anytime. Yes, please do, please do. And like I said, I'm ready to be sent forth. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you, Laura. You're welcome. Laura and I are also working with the Historical Society on an operating agreement to put into words and a doubt on paper, a relationship with the Historical Society. So that's, that feels like a really nice way to solidify that good relationship. And a revision to the donation form, you know, kind of updating to accommodate all this. I think the new space is going to be a really nice opportunity then. I mean, I realize it's not like next week. It's a little bit in the future, but for some good planning. Yes, it's not like you need to do a bit in the future. I mean, I think the new space is going to be화� otoner. I'll see you next time. Or maybe something else you do. Unveiling and more awareness out into the community. Sounds of excitement. Sounds like a great time to bring out the three-handled shovel. The three-handled shovel. And also that table's going on here. So that's nice. Yeah. That's a massive handle. Oh right. Okay. Lots of exciting things coming up. We're moving to other. Did you tell me that you had some other? I do have an other. Are there other? I have an other. Does anybody else have an other that they want to bring up? Do you know when the urns are going to be planted? Have they come to tell you? The urns? The four around me. Aren't they planted? They are. They're spring planting. Oh. I just was curious. You know they're always a little bit high. Yes. But they look beautiful. Good. They look nice and fresh.

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    And like I said, I'm ready to be sent forth. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you, Laura. You're welcome. Laura and I are also working with the Historical Society on an operating agreement to put into words and a doubt on paper, a relationship with the Historical Society. So that's, that feels like a really nice way to solidify that good relationship. And a revision to the donation form, you know, kind of updating to accommodate all this. I think the new space is going to be a really nice opportunity then. I mean, I realize it's not like next week. It's a little bit in the future, but for some good planning. Yes, it's not like you need to do a bit in the future. I mean, I think the new space is going to be화� otoner. I'll see you next time. Or maybe something else you do. Unveiling and more awareness out into the community. Sounds of excitement. Sounds like a great time to bring out the three-handled shovel. The three-handled shovel. And also that table's going on here. So that's nice. Yeah. That's a massive handle. Oh right. Okay. Lots of exciting things coming up. We're moving to other. Did you tell me that you had some other? I do have an other. Are there other? I have an other. Does anybody else have an other that they want to bring up? Do you know when the urns are going to be planted? Have they come to tell you? The urns? The four around me. Aren't they planted? They are. They're spring planting. Oh. I just was curious. You know they're always a little bit high. Yes. But they look beautiful. Good. They look nice and fresh. No other. My other is related to the design project. So one of the aspects of the design project is HVAC. We're going to need some HVAC changes. The historical archive is going to need a lot of HVAC work in other areas. So all along I had kind of thought well we'll just have Roles do it because Roles is our HVAC coordinator. But Aaron reached out to me to just urge me to think about that a little bit more deeply and I wanted to talk about it with you all. He will have to write up specs. You know kind of like a big package for Roles if Roles was to be the best. vendor. Do you all have feelings about this? It's going to be a big number. It's going to be a lot of money that we would have to spend with Rolls. When I talked to the, no, it was building grounds when we talked about boilers. The instruction that Tom and I received

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    Does anybody else have an other that they want to bring up? Do you know when the urns are going to be planted? Have they come to tell you? The urns? The four around me. Aren't they planted? They are. They're spring planting. Oh. I just was curious. You know they're always a little bit high. Yes. But they look beautiful. Good. They look nice and fresh. No other. My other is related to the design project. So one of the aspects of the design project is HVAC. We're going to need some HVAC changes. The historical archive is going to need a lot of HVAC work in other areas. So all along I had kind of thought well we'll just have Roles do it because Roles is our HVAC coordinator. But Aaron reached out to me to just urge me to think about that a little bit more deeply and I wanted to talk about it with you all. He will have to write up specs. You know kind of like a big package for Roles if Roles was to be the best. vendor. Do you all have feelings about this? It's going to be a big number. It's going to be a lot of money that we would have to spend with Rolls. When I talked to the, no, it was building grounds when we talked about boilers. The instruction that Tom and I received from you was to get some quotes for that work. How do you feel about the HVAC work on this library design project? Should we bid this out? Tell Rolls to sharpen their pencils and send them the package as well. We can hold that package back and just give it to Rolls. What number-wise? Yeah, I don't know. Okay, but I think about 25,000. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. So would this fall under McCarthy? Yes. I can tell, I can tell Aaron at McCarthy just to bid it out like all of the other divisions. I'm in favor of that. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, after Tom and I talked about it and after Aaron talked to me, I was feeling that that was the best. Yeah, I agree. Does this expense fall outside of this initial support? No, it's part of the, no, it's part of the scope of the project. It's part of it, but the bidding would be separated and would go to, I think that's the way to go. Okay. Especially because I think that keeps in line the same practice that we're doing with everybody else. Exactly. And if somebody else does the work, Rolls is still able to maintain. Yes. I think the people what they do on my suscripite happens must be pretty similar to my

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    it was building grounds when we talked about boilers. The instruction that Tom and I received from you was to get some quotes for that work. How do you feel about the HVAC work on this library design project? Should we bid this out? Tell Rolls to sharpen their pencils and send them the package as well. We can hold that package back and just give it to Rolls. What number-wise? Yeah, I don't know. Okay, but I think about 25,000. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. So would this fall under McCarthy? Yes. I can tell, I can tell Aaron at McCarthy just to bid it out like all of the other divisions. I'm in favor of that. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, after Tom and I talked about it and after Aaron talked to me, I was feeling that that was the best. Yeah, I agree. Does this expense fall outside of this initial support? No, it's part of the, no, it's part of the scope of the project. It's part of it, but the bidding would be separated and would go to, I think that's the way to go. Okay. Especially because I think that keeps in line the same practice that we're doing with everybody else. Exactly. And if somebody else does the work, Rolls is still able to maintain. Yes. I think the people what they do on my suscripite happens must be pretty similar to my stuff yeah and how long is our relationship been with them it's been a few years and a long time yeah i mean i think since 2008 i think since the renovation so we have a good relationship so i'm assuming that they're going to put a bid in i think they will yeah i do too they value our business yeah okay thanks that's all i needed thanks for asking that's an important piece anyone else have any other business yeah sounds like we've got some good programs coming up though yeah exciting well a reminder our next scheduled meeting is tuesday june 16th we'll be here before we know it 6 30 p.m um may have a motion to adjourn our meeting so moved second all those in favor aye thank you very much thank you