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PARIS PUBLIC LIBRARY 326 S. MAIN STREET PARIS, TEXAS 75460 MINUTES OF THE PARIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING April 23, 1986 The Paris Public Library Advisory Board met in re- scheduled session at the Library on April 23, 1,986 at 4 p.m. with Chairman Mrs. Virginia Gibbs presiding. Board members present were Rogene Patterson, Beth Shelton, Reeves Hayter, Don Black, Robert Pierson and Francis Ellis, Secretary. Jim Lynch and Bill Hagood were absent. Director Gertiana Williams and Librarian Roslyn Sample, along with architect Bill Lightfoot, Friends of the Library President Bill Neely, and Sue Smith, Main Street Director, also attended. Minutes of the March 26 meeting were approved as circulated. The Director called attention to financial and statistical reports and said that the Dial -a -Story call machine was still broken. She asked members to help with the May 24 Friends of the Library book sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., to be held on the parking lot of the Library. She noted this help is especially needed since Helen Gies of the Library staff had been hospitalized from a fall the previous day. Bill Lightfoot, architect for the Library expansion, reported on the study of furnishings at the recent Texas State Library Convention in Fort Worth and showed pictures of five Scandinavian furniture line's and announced that samples would be brought to Paris for the Board to study before submitting plans on November 3, 1986 for furniture. He discussed present shelving which cannot be used again and shelving which can be used after refinishing. Mr. Lightfoot offered this tenative schedule: June 1: attend the City Council meeting to get approval for bids on the structure. Mr. Lightfoot will then personally take the plans to Austin to the Texas State Library Board and the State Purchasing Agent for certi- fication of the structure's barrier -free features. On or about June 20: contractor bids will be let; July 23: bids for the building; July 28: City Council approval; July 31: sign construction contract. Mr. Lightfoot said construction work would begin in the Children's Library and that all books and equipment would be moved out while the floor is removed and the ground excavated to lower the north portion of the building. After lowering, it would then be used, unfinished, with the books placed in temporary shelving.