Meeting of the Yate, Chipping Sodbury and mobile libraries Consultative Committee held at Yate Library on 21st March 2007
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Present Martin Burton, ,Sheridan Crew, Eleanor Windram, Lloyd Pellow, Carol Zorzo, Kay Crowe, Granville Olive, Hannah Mitchell, John Abraham, Neil Weston, Gloria Stephen |
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Apologies Jackie Roseblade, , Grainne Stables ,Cheryl Kirby, Christine Howard |
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Minutes of previous meeting
Agreed as a true record. Changes following Open meeting on 24/4. The need for a rear door for disabled people close to the parking spaces at the back of library was acted on and a direct path will lead to the door at the back of the children’s library. New boiler now installed. Health Centre work has stopped for the past 4 weeks. Martin Burton is meeting Dominion to try to make a deal for temporary accommodation. Chipping Sodbury Library to open longer during closure also another library near by to open for longer. Users to be surveyed over which one they would use.
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Consultation
Over 100 Friends of Yate Library postcards returned.
All existing library members at Yate with email addresses (about 4000) have been emailed about the plans. New newsletter about to be produced. John and Neil have attended meetings of Shop Mobility committee, Your Yate and Yate Town Centre strategy group. Martin & John spoke to 130 people over one Saturday in the library.
Big Lottery Fund feedback
All 3 plans were submitted by 14th April. The National Lottery has asked for minor changes to the Business Plan, more work on the Community Engagement Plan but has not responded to the Capital Plan as yet. Changes to be made within 10 days.
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Use of community office space
Martin explained how the office space was laid out. BS17 Link & Shop Mobility explained how their projects worked and why they would like exclusive use of an office. BS17 Link now have 2 full time project workers based Carol Zorzo working 3 days per week. They are mostly an office based project. Last year they took 1116 enquiries. Shop Mobility need a central location in the shops. They currently operate for 3 days per week in Yate but would like to expand. There are 400 people currently on their books. A discussion on this resulted in the board members proposing (Granville Olive seconded by Gloria Stephen) that Shop Mobility’s service could operate from the library 5 days a week but they would need to share the office space, maybe having use of the office for 3 days per week.
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AOB
Active Card – Martin Burton explained about this pilot scheme to combine the database of Library and Leisure Centre members in South Gloucestershire for marketing purposes. This is an excellent opportunity to market the library services to males agreed between 20 and 40 years of age who traditionally use leisure services heavily but not library services. The pilot scheme is being run at Longwell Green LC so is most likely to affect the neighbouring libraries.
Yate Library is hosting author Barbara Erskine on Wednesday 2nd July at 7.30pm. Tickets on sale now. Also look out for various events in September connected with the National Year of Reading.
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Dates of future meetings 18 October 2007 |