By T. Scott Boatright
One order of business was passed while two others were tabled as the Lincoln Parish Library (LPL) Board of Control held its August meeting Thursday in the Jack Beard Community Room of the LPL.
Last month the LPL Board of Control approved three newly established policies regarding social media; displays and exhibits; and photography and media recording.
During Thursday’s meeting, the Board granted permission for LPL Director Jeremy Bolom to edit the library’s social media policy put into place last month.
Bolom said he realized the edit was needed after talking to LPL workers during a recent staff meeting.
“Instead of just saying that the library should never be tagged, after hearing some questions about what it means, I realized it needed to be spelled out,” Bolom said.
The original version of what was changed read, “A Library’s post should never “tag” any employee’s personal or commercial social media account(s).”
Bolom’s edit approved by the Board of Control has that part of the library’s social media policy now read, “A Library’s post should never “tag,” “like,” “share,” or comment on any employee’s personal or commercial social media account(s) or content.”
The Board of Control then agreed to table the next order of business — discuss and take action to create and appoint a committee for discussion of improvements/repairs to the library.
Only six Board members were present during Thursday’s meeting, and those five — Chairperson Jan Canterbury, Vice Chair Sandra Dupree, Richard Pyles, Milton Melton, Debra Gilliam and Amanda Norris — decided to table that discussion until a later meeting when more members would be present.
Absent from Thursday’s meeting was Bill Jones, Eric McCullough and Mary Jo Cooper.
Also tabled was an agenda order of business to discuss and take action to invite elected officials for personal library tours.
That decision was made because Jones was the board member spearheading that idea and the others felt he needed to be present for it to be discussed.
While discussing statistics, Bolom said July was another big month for patronage, especially because of adult and children’s summer reading programs.
Bolom also told the Board that upgrading of the library’s printing system had been completed and that patrons can now use credit or debit cards to pay for printing services.
“They can send documents or pictures to the new printer and they can be printed there,” Bolom said. “We used to have a coin-operated system that didn’t take credit cards, but nobody carries change anymore. So I finally got one that takes a credit card. Now they can charge 10 cents to their credit card if they only need one page printed.”
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