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SO LET'S CALL, WE NEED TO ORDER.
[Library Board on September 3, 2025.]
WE CAN GET, UH, ROLL MARGARET HERE.WERE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS SENT IN? WE WILL GO TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
I, UH, WILL THAT WE APPROVE THE AGENDA.
AND I JUST HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT, ABOUT AGENDA.
SO IF WE'RE ADDING SOMEONE TO MAYBE UNFINISHED BUSINESS, WE BE AT THIS TIME, ADD THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE.
SO TO THE NEXT ONE, IT'LL REFLECT ON THAT AGENDA THAT WE ADDED THEM AS.
UM, MOVING SOMETHING TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.
I'D LIKE TO, UH, ASK ABOUT THE WARRANTS.
THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTS.
UH, WE DON'T, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY WARRANTS THIS MONTH.
UM, THIS IS, SO YOU GUYS SEE THE MONEY THAT COMES FROM THIS SPECIFIC LIBRARY FUND AND WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING PAID THROUGH THAT FUND, THIS DISCOUNT.
WHAT OTHER FUND WILL BE DICTATE? UM, IT WOULD BE PAID THROUGH LIKE OUR MATERIALS DEFIES FUND OR FRIEND OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, OR DATABASES.
UM, THE, UH, WARRANTS FOR YOU GUYS COME THROUGH THE ACTUAL, UH, LIKE LIBRARY TRUST FUND SENT TO US AND WE PAY SOME OF THE BILLS WITH THAT.
AND THEN WE PAY SOME OF THEM AT THE JET.
'CAUSE IT'S PULLED FROM DIFFERENT, LIKE
SO WHEN WE SEE THE WARRANTS USUALLY, DOES IT REFLECT BOTH THE LIBRARY TRUST FUND AND THE GENERAL FUND? NO.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, UM, WE, THAT'S, WE LOOKED AT THE BYLAWS.
IT DOES SAY THAT IT'S ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE THE LIBRARY TRUST FUND.
AND SO PREVIOUSLY WE JUST SEE THE EDITING THAT YOU SPENT, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE APPROVING THEM, THE WARRANTS FOR THAT SPECIFICALLY, THAT'S WHY IT'S JUST INCLUDED.
UH, THE TERM MAKES VENUES OF LIBRARY TEXT FUNDS.
THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE THOUGHT IN THE PREVIOUS GRAPHS THAT IT WAS ONLY, I, I BELIEVE THAT PREVIOUSLY THEY JUST INCLUDED EVERYTHING, BUT IT SHOULD HAVE JUST BEEN THE LIBRARY TRUST BOT.
THAT'S HOW IT WAS WRITTEN, ORIGINAL.
AND SO USUALLY WHAT EXPENSES ARE ON THE BINARY TRUST? UH, WE HAVE SEVERAL DATABASES.
UM, A COUPLE MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES, BUDGETS, UM, DVDS.
SOME BOOKS WILL COME OUT OF THE FUND.
MARGARET, I, CINDY, WHAT ARE WE VOTING? I CONSENT.
OKAY, WE'LL GO ON TO NEW AND I, THANK GOODNESS.
ALRIGHT, WELL WE HAVE SOME GUESTS HERE TODAY, UM, FROM SESU, UH, JESSICA AND MATT.
AND THEY'RE HERE TO SORT OF TALK ABOUT, UM, WHAT WE'RE PLANNING ON DOING WITH THE LOCAL HISTORY ROOM AND OUR TECHNICAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
SHOULD YOU JUST SIT HERE? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
NICE FAMILIAR YOUR FACES
I AM, I RUN OUR CENTER FOR REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY AT SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY.
AND WITHIN THAT, UM, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT INITIATIVES.
ONE OF THEM IS THE STATE PROJECT.
WE EVER PAID ANY ATTENTION TO THAT POSTER THAT COMMEMORATES, UM, OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIONAL CITY SINCE 2013.
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THE CITY AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, UM, UH, SINCE THEN OFF AND ON, ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS.BUT WE ALSO ARE INVOLVED WITH THE, UH, BROWNFIELD PROJECT THAT YOU ALSO MIGHT HAVE HEARD ABOUT.
UM, AND SINCE THE START OF THAT, WE, UM, HAVE BEEN STORING ALL OF OUR REPORTS THAT COME FROM THE SAGE PROJECT IN OUR SDSU LIBRARY RESERVE, AND, WHICH THIS IS HOW I WAS ABLE TO BECOME CONNECTED WITH MATT.
YOU WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF? UH, I'M MATT MERRILL.
I'M A DIGITIZATION SPECIALIST AT SDSU LIBRARY IN OUR DIGITAL COLLECTIONS UNIT.
UM, AND WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY FOR SDSU, UM, WHICH THE PRIMARY FOCUS IS, UH, COLLECTING, UH, DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP, UM, DIGITAL COLLECTIONS, UM, MAKING MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE ONLINE AND AVAILABLE.
AND IT'S NOT JUST FOR, UM, SDSU PRODUCED MATERIALS.
WE HAVE LOTS OF COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
WE HAVE, UM, INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS.
UM, JESSICA AND SAGE HELPED US WITH A HUGE PROJECT, UM, THAT WERE IN WHICH WE COLLABORATED WITH THE, UM, UH, INSTITUTE OF MUNICIPAL, UM, THE
UM, WE WORK WITH, UM, THE LAMBDA ARCHIVE IN SAN DIEGO TO HELP THEM.
UM, AND A LOT OF TIMES IT'S, WE, WE WORK WITH PARTNERS THAT MAY HAVE COLLECTIONS THAT THEY HAVE A CAPACITY TO DIGITIZE, BUT THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE A, A WAY TO PRESENT THESE MATERIALS ONLINE.
UM, AND THAT'S USUALLY WHAT WE CAN OFFER.
THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF OUR PARTNERSHIPS HAVE BEEN WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
DO YOU WANNA SHARE YOUR FUN FACT? I HOPE I, I PREVIOUSLY, UM, BEFORE COMING TO, TO SDSU, A COUPLE YEARS BEFORE, UM, WAS, UM, WORKED FOR NATIONAL CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE, IN THE CAL MORGAN HISTORY ROOM, SO MM-HMM
WHEN WAS THAT? THAT WOULD'VE BEEN, GOSH, I SHOULD HAVE HAD THE STATES OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
UM, IT WAS PROBABLY AT LEAST SIX YEARS AGO.
UM, SO, SO THE REASON THAT WE'RE HERE IS BECAUSE WE, WE SO INTERNALLY HAVE ENTERED INTO THIS PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CENTER FOR REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY AND THE DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AT THE LIBRARY.
UM, AND SO, UM, MATT MENTIONED THIS
UM, THAT'S, 'CAUSE THAT'S, WE HAD A GRANT THAT, UM, WAS SPECIFIC TO THAT TIME PERIOD.
UM, WE ALSO, THAT WAS FROM THE, UH, U-U-C-L-A MODERN ENDANGERED ARCHIVES PROGRAM.
SO THE WHOLE POINT OF THESE KINDS OF GRANTS IS TO PRESERVE, UM, MATERIALS THAT ARE ENDANGERED, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM THE ELEMENTS BASICALLY.
UM, AND, AND ALSO TO MAKE THEM PUBLICLY AVAILABLE SO THAT PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO THEM RATHER THAN HAVING TO RELY ON, IN SOME CASES, VERY LIMITED HOURS.
UM, YOU KNOW, OR ARE JUST PHYSICALLY TOO FAR AWAY, UM, TO ACCESS.
SO RESEARCHERS, FOR EXAMPLE, AROUND THE WORLD, MIGHT WANNA SEE SOME OF THESE THINGS.
WE ALSO HAD AN AN I, UH, A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES GRANTS, UM, TO CONTINUE THAT WORK.
BUT IT WAS TERMINATED, UH, RECENTLY, SO WE'RE NOT DOING THAT ANYMORE.
UM, SO, UM, BUT WE'RE LOOKING FOR OTHER, WE, WE WANNA CONTINUE TO PARTNER.
WE, UH, IN THIS, WE'RE LOOKING FOR OTHER RESOURCES FOR THE
BUT ONE GRANT THAT WE ARE, UM, PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IS THROUGH UCLA.
ONCE AGAIN, THE MODERN ENDANGERED ARCHIVES PROGRAM.
UM, THAT WOULD BE FOR A REGIONAL, UH, GRANT TO WORK WITH.
UM, THERE NEEDS TO BE A MINIMUM OF, OF THREE INSTITUTIONS.
ONE WOULD BE THE HOST INSTITUTION, WHICH WOULD BE US.
IT WOULD BE PROVIDING THE
UM, AND THEN, UM, OF COURSE I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF NATIONAL CITY BECAUSE MY SECOND HOME, UM, IT'S WHERE SO MUCH OF THE WORK THAT WE DO, UM, WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS IS, IS HERE.
UM, AND, UH, SO WE HAD A INITIAL MEETING WITH, WITH DANNY AND CARL ATKINS.
UM, I ACTUALLY FIRST RAISED, REACHED OUT TO MARGARET THOUGH, UM, BECAUSE I KNOW HER WELL FROM, UM, SOME OF THE OTHER WORK THAT WE DO, UM, TO, TO EXPLORE WHETHER NATIONAL CITY WANTED TO BE, UM, A PARTNER ON, ON THIS EFFORT, ON THIS GRANT, OR, YOU KNOW, A FUTURE GRANT PROPOSALS THAT WE, UM, LOOK TO CONTINUE THIS CERTIFICATION.
WE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY SORT OF PROPOSAL THAT WE'RE BRINGING, BUT WE WANNA SORT OF, SORT OF START, START ANY POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS OR, OR FUTURE PARTNERSHIPS DOWN THE LINE SO THAT, SO YEAH, IF YOU, IF YOU
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COME ACROSS GRANT OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU COULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, BUT DON'T HAVE SOME OF THE RESOURCES FOR THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP WITH.UM, AND THAT'S ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE DID WITH OUR BROWNFIELDS PROJECT.
SO THE TYPICALLY CITIES APPLY, OR, OR NOT UNIVERSITIES, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT THEY DON'T USUALLY APPLY FOR THESE GRANTS 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT RESEARCH GRANTS.
UM, BUT NATIONAL CITIES DID NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO APPLY FOR AND THEN MANAGE, RIGHT? 'CAUSE IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST, SO, IT'S A LOT OF WORK.
AND SO WE ELECTED TO DO THAT AND, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVE LOTS OF STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS INVOLVED WITH THE WORK, BUT IT'S ALL IN SERVICE TO NATIONAL CITY, UM, AND BRAND BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
AND SO THAT'S SORT OF HOW WE'RE APPROACHING THIS WORK TOO.
BUT WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE, UM, RESOURCES MORE ACCESSIBLE, UH, FOR RESEARCHERS.
UM, THESE ALL, ANYTHING THAT WE DIGITIZED WOULD STILL REMAIN THE, YOU KNOW, AT THE PROPERTY OF THE CITY.
UM, THEY WOULD, WE WOULDN'T HAVE ANY OWNERSHIP OVER THEM.
AND YOU WOULD ALL HAVE, SAY, ANYTIME IF YOU WANTED US TO TAKE DISPLAY THEIR JUST COLLECTIONS DOWN, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S HOW IT HAS WORKED WITH ANA, FOR EXAMPLE.
UM, SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, AND WE TALKED WITH DANNY AND CARL ABOUT POTENTIAL COLLECTIONS THAT COULD BE DIGITIZED.
I THINK FOR A BREAK PROPOSAL, WE WANTED, YOU KNOW, UM, HAVE A THEME ACROSS THE INSTITUTIONS, BUT ALSO HIGHLIGHT, YOU KNOW, SOME COLLECTIONS THAT ARE REALLY COMPELLING AND, AND OR, AND EXCITING AND VALUABLE AND KIND OF SIT WITH THAT THEME.
SO THAT'S PART OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'D WANNA HAVE, UM, TO FURTHER THINK ABOUT THIS.
BUT, UM, IT'S ALL WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT FOR YOU? UM, WHAT IT, WHAT DO YOU NEED? WHAT, YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED REVAMPING AND MODERNIZING THE, THE HISTORY ROOM AND LIKE, HOW CAN WE CONTINUE TO THAT? SO THE POINT IS HOW WE CAN ADD CAPACITY TO NEEDS, UM, ON
WELL, WE INVITED THEM HERE SO THAT WE, THEY COULD TALK ABOUT IT.
SO THEY'RE EXPLAINING IT WAY BETTER THAN I COULD
UM, AND I KNOW MARGARET WANTED THEM TO COME, SO IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THEM, THEY'RE HERE TO ANSWER THEM.
SO, UM, JUST TO UNDERSTAND YOUR WORK, CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE PROCESS OF WHAT YOU'RE GONNA BE DIGITIZING OR WHAT THAT EVEN LOOKS LIKE?
COMMUNITY AND, AND COMMUNITY AND YEAH.
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, FI FINDING THOSE, UH, WAYS TO, TO FIND BOTH LIKE THE RESOURCES AND THE LABOR TO HELP WITH THEM TOO.
UM, WHETHER IT'S GRAD STUDENTS ON CAMPUS THAT CAN HELP WITH THINGS OR FINDING PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY CAN, THEY CAN HELP WITH THINGS, YOU KNOW.
'CAUSE I KNOW THAT LIKE THE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE HISTORY ROOM HAS, HAS A LOT OF GREAT MATERIALS.
I KNOW THAT SOME COLLECTIONS HAVE BEEN DIGITIZED THROUGH, UM, THE CALIFORNIA REVEAL PROJECT.
UM, BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT OF SMALL THINGS HERE AND THERE THAT, THAT HAVEN'T BEEN DIGITIZED.
AND IT, UM, THIS IS JUST SORT OF THE, AS AN IDEA, LIKE LET'S SAY YOU CAME ACROSS, IF, IF A DONOR CAME TO YOU AND SAID, I'D LOVE TO, I HAVE THIS MONEY TO DONATE FOR, FOR DIGITIZATION PROJECT OR FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR ANY PARTICULAR SUBJECT.
AND YOU SAID, WELL, WE HAVE VOLUNTEERS THAT CAN DO THAT, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO PUT THEM ONLINE.
UM, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT NOW, LIKE RIGHT NOW, LIKE THE CALIFORNIA REVEALED STUFF, IT, IT'S ALL THROUGH THE CALIFORNIA REVEALED WEBSITE.
IT GOES, I THINK ALSO ON INTERNET ARCHIVE IS, IS WHERE IT'S SORT OF REDUNDANT.
PEOPLE CAN, CAN ACCESS THOSE FREELY.
UM, IF YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO PARTNER WITH CALIFORNIA REVEALED ON THAT, BUT YOU, YOU WERE ABLE TO FIND VOLUNTEERS THAT COULD DIGITIZE MATERIALS, I'D BE ABLE TO COME IN AND TRAIN VOLUNTEERS ON HOW TO DIGITIZE THOSE THINGS.
UM, BECAUSE I, I KNOW THERE'S AT LEAST ONE SCANNER ALREADY IN THE HISTORY ROOM THAT CAN, THAT CAN SCAN PHOTOGRAPHS AND, AND BOOK PAGES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, I'D BE ABLE TO HELP WITH TRAINING ON THAT.
AND, WHICH IS KIND OF WHAT WE DID IN TIJUANA AS WE, WE WERE ABLE TO FIND SOME FUNDS TO PURCHASE, UM, TO PURCHASE EQUIPMENT, TO, TO HELP WITH THAT SCANNING.
AND THEN I WENT DOWN AND HELPED TO, TO TRAIN, DO QUALITY CONTROL, DO TROUBLESHOOTING.
AND UH, AND THEN THE FILES WERE SENT TO US DIGITALLY AND WE HELPED TO GET THEM ONLINE, CREATE AUTOMATED DATA.
'CAUSE THE, UM, DIGITIZING STUFF IS, IS THE EASY PART.
CREATING ALL THE MA DATA TO MAKE IT FINDABLE, TO MAKE IT USABLE, TO MAKE IT WORTHWHILE.
HAVING ONLINE SO THAT RESEARCHERS CAN FIND IT AND WORK WITH IT.
UM, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S A LOT OF WHAT, WHAT WHAT WE ENDED UP DOING.
AND WE, AND FOR THAT ONE IN PARTICULAR, AND I THINK WE WOULD WANNA DO THE SAME FOR NATIONAL CITIES, IS MADE ALL THE METADATA BILINGUAL.
UM, AND, AND FOR THE, WITH THE GRANTS THAT WE HAD, WE ACTUALLY ABLE TO HIRE PEOPLE TO, TO DO THE DIGITIZATION.
AND WE, UM, AND IT WAS THE STIPULATION OF THE GRANT, BUT SOMETHING WE WERE INTERESTED IN ANYWAYS.
AND WE WERE REQUIRED TO, UM, HIRE PEOPLE LOCALLY IN TIJUANA TO DO THE WORK.
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LOGISTICALLY OR ADMINISTRATIVELY, IT'S HARD TO PAY THEM, BUT WE FIGURED IT OUT.UM, JUST 'CAUSE IT'S INTERNATIONAL AND THEY'RE NOT STU OUR STUDENTS, THEY'RE STUDENTS ELSEWHERE.
BUT, UM, BUT SIMILARLY HERE, WE, IF, IF THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO BE HIRED, YOU KNOW, IF WE WANTED TO HIRE LOCAL, UM, RESIDENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, OR, OR EVEN IF, OR MAYBE THERE ARE STUDENTS AT SDSU WHO ARE FROM NATIONAL CITY TOGETHER, LOTS OF THEM.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO WE COULD MAKE IT STILL, LIKE WE HAVE GRANT MONEY TO SUPPORT HIRING LOCALLY, UM, TO HELP WITH THE PROCESS.
OR IF YOU ALL, IF YOU ALL JUST WANT US TO, TO DO IT, WE CAN SEND STUDENTS DOWN TO DO IT.
I MEAN, SO THERE'S, THERE'S LOTS OF DIFFERENT POSSIBLE SCENARIOS.
UM, AND SO WE TAKE LOTS OF STUDENTS TO DO THE DIGITIZATION AND EVEN CREATING THE METADATA, UM, TAKES A CERTAIN SKILLSET SET TO DO THE METADATA THOUGH.
SO THIS WOULD BE IN A PUBLIC SERVER AND WHO OWNS THAT SERVER AND WHO'S PAYING FOR THAT COST.
UM, WHEN YOU SAY DIG LIKE THINGS AND MATERIALS AND COLLECTIONS, WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU SAYING ABOUT THAT? AND IS THAT AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC? SO CAN COME IN, SO PUBLIC HAS ACCESS.
SO THE, OUR, OUR WEBSITE IS, UH, DIGITAL COLLECTIONS.SDSU.EDU.
AND WHAT CAN THEY BRING, OR WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? UH, SO YOU ME HAVE SOME SCREEN CHATS? I DID.
SO ESSENTIALLY, LIKE, LET'S SAY THEY'RE THE PHOTO, RIGHT? OKAY.
AND WE HAVE A HARD COPY IN THE LIBRARY.
THEY WOULD TAKE IT, PUT IT ON A FILE, AND THEN THEY COULD SHARE IT WITH MM-HMM
SO IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE PUBLISHED TO THE WEB TO EVERYBODY AND FOR ANYBODY TO SEE AND USE COULD HAVE.
UM, AND WHEN YOU'RE PROVIDING THE SERVICE FOR RESIDENTS, CAN THEY OPT OUT OF HAVING IT BE PUBLIC? WHAT IF THEY JUST WANNA DIGITIZE YOUR PERSONAL ALBUM? LIKE WHAT IS THAT? IS THAT DIFFERENT FROM THIS SERVICE? YEAH, SO IT'S NOT QUITE, WE HAVEN'T DONE COMMUNITY ARCHIVING YET.
SO THIS IS JUST FOR THE LIBRARY, RIGHT.
DOESN'T BE FOR LIBRARY COLLECTION, BUT COMMUNITY ARCHIVING IS SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN DOING TOO.
UM, IT'S A, IT'S A, IT IS A VERY DIFFERENT SORT OF THING BECAUSE THERE ARE ALWAYS CONCERNS OF, OF YEAH.
UM, OF WHO OWNS THOSE MATERIALS.
SO ANY, ANYTHING THAT WE WOULD DIGITIZE, UH, WE ALWAYS HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR THAT.
IS IS WHO OWNS, YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE YOU OWN IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU OWN YEAH.
YOU HAVE A COPYRIGHT ON THAT MM-HMM
AND, UM, WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, WE'RE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT, UM, THE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A, SOME MATERIALS LIKE THE, WE KEEP SAYING TIJUANA, BUT BECAUSE THAT WAS THE MOST RECENT PROJECT MM-HMM
AND IT WAS A HUGE PROJECT WITH LOTS OF STUFF THERE, THERE ARE MATERIALS THAT WERE FLAGGED AS NEEDED TO BE RESTRICTED MM-HMM
UM, WHICH WE, UH, WE REFER TO THAT AS, AS JUST BEING EMBARGOED ONLINE.
AND, UH, WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOME MATERIAL, A HANDFUL OF MATERIALS THAT, THAT ARE EMBARGOED THAT WE MAKE AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCHERS ON REQUEST.
AND SO IN, IN TIJUANA IN PARTICULAR WAS, IS DIGITAL.
IT WE DIGITIZED PHOTO COLLECTIONS 'CAUSE THEY WERE AT THE MOST AT RISK, UM, GIVEN HOW THEY WERE BEING STORED.
THEY JUST, THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE FACILITIES, UM, FOR THOSE PHOTOS.
AND THESE WERE PHOTO COLLECTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DONATED TO THIS INSTITUTE.
AND SO IN THE CASE OF NATIONAL CITIES LIBRARY, IT WOULD BE WHATEVER COLLECTIONS ARE, YOU KNOW, YOU FEEL YOU, YOU ARE EITHER MOST AT RISK OR YOU MOST IN NEED OF BEING MADE MORE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, UM, IF YOU WANTED THEM.
SO ALL OF OUR COLLECTIONS WE OWN OR WERE DONATED TO US.
SO ANYTHING IN THE ROOM PEOPLE HAVE, YOU KNOW, GIVEN TO US AND LET US, YOU KNOW, USE IT FOR THE COLLECTION.
IF THEY WANNA DO A PERSONAL THING, THEY CAN COME AND USE THE MEMORY LAB AND THEN WE DON'T HAVE ANY ACCESS TO THEIR PERSONAL PHOTOS.
SO THAT'S A SEPARATE ENTITY, BUT THEY COULD DO THAT AS WELL.
SO WE, AT WE AT THIS POINT, WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO GO THE LIBRARY SITE AND ACCESS CERTAIN PHOTOGRAPHS THAT YOUR BOOKS.
UH, SO THERE ARE THINGS ALREADY THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO.
SO THIS JUST BE EXPANDING THAT MM-HMM
AND ANY MATERIALS THAT WE DO DIGITIZE, WE, WE'D OF COURSE HAVE DIGITAL COPIES FOR EVERYONE TOO.
SO WHAT IF, BECAUSE ARE YOU USING WHAT THE CONTENT DM FOR YOUR STUFF? OR YOU HAVE TO ASK CARL.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, WHATEVER PLATFORM SYSTEM YOU'RE USING, YOU COULD ALSO, WE DO ALSO HAVE ALL THAT MADE DATA AND GIVE THAT ALL TO YOU SO YOU'D BE ABLE TO INTEGRATE IT BACK INTO YOUR SYSTEM AS WELL.
WE'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT IT BEING IT EXCLUSIVE TO, UH, TO PHOTOS.
UM, IT SOUNDS SO EXCITING AND COOL.
SO IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING TODAY THOUGH, IS WE DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC PROJECT IN MIND.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE CITY AND THE SLASH LIBRARY TO, TO DO A GRANT TO PARTNER.
WE INTEND TO APPLY FOR A GRANT.
THE, AND THE GRANT IS DUE IN, UM, I THINK END OF NOVEMBER OR MID-NOVEMBER.
WE JUST GOT THE ANNOUNCEMENT, UM,
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A COUPLE DAYS AGO.SO WE WERE, WE ACTUALLY APPROACHED YOU ALL BEFORE WE, THE GRAPHIC WAS EVEN ANNOUNCED, BUT WE KNEW IT WAS COMING.
AND, AND WE'RE LOOKING BEYOND THAT GRANT TOO OF JUST, YOU KNOW, PARTNERSHIPS AND PROJECTS, UM, FOR THIS KIND OF WORK.
UM, SO IF THAT ONE DOESN'T, IF WE END UP NOT APPLYING FOR THAT ONE OR YOU'RE NOT PARTNERING ON THAT ONE, THAT'S FINE.
WE CAN THINK OF THIS FOR ANOTHER TIME TOO.
BUT WE, WE DO, UM, WE ARE LOOKING TO PARTNER FOR THAT GRANT APPLICATION, UM, IF THE CITY IS INTERESTED, IF YOU ALL ARE INTERESTED.
SO, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE GET THE GUIDELINES, UM, FOR THE BOTH GRANTS THAT WE'LL KNOW BETTER WHAT, UM, IS NEEDED.
BUT, UM, TYPICAL IN, IN THE PAST WITH, WITH, FROM THE SAME FUNDING AGENCY, WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO IS HAVE A LETTER THAT'S A, YOU KNOW, COMMITMENT FROM THE PARTNER INSTITUTION AND ALSO SOME EVIDENCE THAT THERE ARE THESE COLLECTIONS.
LIKE, SO, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU CAN JUST PHOTOGRAPHS, YOU KNOW, GOING AROUND ROOM OF, OF SOME OF THESE COLLECTIONS OF WHAT WE DID LAST TIME WITH THE
ARE WE ABLE TO LOOK AT THE PROJECT WE DID IN YEAH, WELL WE BROUGHT UP PRESENTATION, BUT WE CAN SEND YOU THE, IF IT'S EASIER, WE CAN JUST FOLLOW UP AND SEND LINKS TO ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
AND THE, THE, THE CLINICAL JUST, JUST STAND.
IT'S WORTH GOING DOWN A RABBIT HOLE.
SO SEND IT TO ME AND YEAH, WE'LL SEND IT TO THE WHOLE, YEAH.
THAT WE CAN SPEND SOME TIME, UH, LOOKING AT.
WE ALSO DIGITIZED, UM, AND I SAY WE, THE LIBRARY DIGITIZED, UM, UH, A COLLECTION OF, UM, WHAT ARE, UH, ILLA, WHICH ARE LIKE GRAMMAR BOOKS, UM, FROM IN OAXACA, UM, OF NATIVE OR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES.
AND, UM, THAT SOME OF THESE THINGS LIKE ARE THE ONLY KNOWN COPIES OF, OF THESE.
AND SO THOSE WE HAVE DIGITIZED, UM, ON OUR QUESTION TOO.
DO WE OTHER QUESTIONS FOR OUR GUESTS? THAT WAS WONDERFUL.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING GUYS FOR COMING.
WE, YOU KNOW, LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED ANYTHING AND, AND WE YEAH.
AND I'LL, I'LL SEND THE PRESENTATION OR THE LINK TO THESE THINGS.
SO TO DIRECTOR OF LIBRARY SERVICES, UH, SO MY FIRST IS THE PARTNERSHIP.
UH, I JUST INCLUDED IT IN THERE, BUT THEY DID A MUCH BETTER JOB EXPLAINING.
UM, BUT WE ARE VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING THEM ON BOARD TO APPLYING FOR GRANTS TOGETHER.
WE TYPICALLY IS EASIER WHEN YOU APPLY LIKE A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT ENTITIES.
UM, AND SO THIS WILL HELP US MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE MATERIALS WE HAVE ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T DO GREAT OVER TIME.
WE ALWAYS HAVE A DIGITAL COPY OF THAT AVAILABLE AND IT'LL BE EASIER 'CAUSE WE'LL HAVE THE METADATA TOO, SO YOU CAN LIKE, LOOK UP THINGS INSTEAD OF BEING LIKE, OH, WELL I DON'T KNOW WHERE IS THIS? IT'S MUCH, IT'S A MUCH EASIER PROCESS.
UM, SO I WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE YOU AS WE MOVE FORWARD, BUT WE'RE VERY EXCITED.
IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT, GREAT PARTNERSHIP.
UM, SO MY NEXT TOPIC IS LIBRARY IMPROVEMENT.
UM, WE DID GET A COUPLE LITTLE, UM, LITTLE ATTENTION FROM PUBLIC WORKS AND ENGINEERING, UH, FOR OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY.
UM, BUT WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE GETTING, UH, A NEW ROOF.
AND I BELIEVE NEXT TUESDAY I HAVE A MEETING WITH PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERING AND THE CONTRACTOR.
SO I'LL HAVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU GUYS.
UM, BUT WE'RE SUPER EXCITED TO HAVE A BRAND NEW GROUP AFTER 20 YEARS, HOPEFULLY NO MORE LEAKS.
WHO'S PAYING FOR THAT? IS IT UNDER THE CITY? THE CITY IS PAYING FOR IT.
UM, IT'S UNDER THE, THE, I THINK PUBLIC WORKS AND ENGINEERING.
IT'S THAT GOING OUT TO THIS OR IS THAT IT ALREADY HAS GONE OUT BID AND I BELIEVE THE COUNCIL APPROVED IT LAST MEETING, MEETING BEFORE
I THINK THEY, THEY APPROVED IT'S GREAT, UH, IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS.
UM, AND THEN THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THE CONTRACTORS SCHEDULE.
OF COURSE, WE'RE MOVING ALONG.
UM, AND THEN, UH, WE HIGHLIGHTED OUR FRIENDS IN THE LIBRARY THIS MONTH IN OUR FAMILY LITERACY VIDEO.
UH, SO WE HAD ALL OF OUR FRIENDS COME AND THEY DID TOUR IN THE BOOKSTORE.
THEY READ A BOOK, THEY INTRODUCED THEMSELVES.
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FOR THIS MONTH ARE OUT, THE VIDEO IS OUT FOR FAMILIES WHO ENJOY.UM, AND IT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO SORT OF PROMOTE WHAT THEY DO AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MAYBE BRING IN SOME KIDS' FAMILIES.
UM, AND SO THAT, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT.
UM, I WANTED TO INCLUDE OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY, BUT OF COURSE THAT HAPPENED AFTER I SUBMITTED THIS MM-HMM
UM, BUT WE HAD A WONDERFUL ANNIVERSARY PARTY, UH, LAST SATURDAY.
WE HAD SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE COME.
WE HAD THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THERE, WE HAD THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THERE.
WE HAD FACE PAINTING, MUSIC, A PINATA, CRAFTS GAMES.
SO IT WAS, IT WAS A LOT OF FUN.
WE HAD A LOT OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK FROM EVERYBODY.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY, I WE'RE SO GLAD THAT, UM, ESTIMATED, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE? UH, WE COULD WE'LL PULL IT OFF OF A, THE DOOR COUNTER, UM, THAT WE GET AN, LIKE AN ACCURATE READING, BUT I MEAN, IT WAS AT LEAST A COUPLE HUNDRED PEOPLE THAT, THAT SORT OF MADE THEIR WAY THROUGH THE, THE TWO HOURS THAT WE'VE OKAY, THANK YOU.
WELL, WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING, UH, FULL BILL IN DECEMBER.
THE, THE LIBRARY IS, AND THE FRIENDS WILL BE THERE AT THE CELEBRATION, KIND OF LIKE AN OPEN HOUSE.
WE'LL BE THERE AND SEE WHAT WE DO, BUT WE'LL ALSO RAFFLE OFF THE CHRISTMAS DESK.
DON'T FORGET YOUR CHRISTMAS DESK EVERY YEAR.
SO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANNA BRING IN, BRING IT IN AND DROP IT OFF AT FRIEND'S, UH, ROOM.
AND, UH, MICKEY MAKES UP BASKETS AND WE WHAT KINDS OF THINGS? WELL, USUALLY THERE'S THINGS THERE.
CANDLES, UM, BATH AND BODY STUFF.
UM, TOWEL LIKE, UM, TEA TOWELS FOR CHRISTMAS.
ANYTHING CHRISTMASY, USUALLY THE LIBRARY DONATES.
UH, WE USUALLY DO A GRIT BASKET.
LIKE BASKET BASKET, NO COFFEE CUPS OR, UM, THE TRAVEL MUG, THINGS LIKE THAT.
THOSE THINGS IF THEY'RE IN A BASKET.
SOME OF IT BEEN REGIFTED, I MUST SAY.
UM, SO ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS? HAVE A QUESTION.
IT IS FOR DANIELLE THOUGH, IS THAT OKAY? UM, I'M JUST WONDERING IF YOU'RE SEEING A DIFFERENCE OF THE TOOLS SINCE THE, THE TOOL LIBRARY IS NOW MORE, ARE YOU SEEING AN UPTICK IN PEOPLE ARE YEAH, WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING QUITE A LOT OF PEOPLE NOW AND WE HAVE, UM, A NEW FEATURE ON THE WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE AND THEN YOU CAN RESERVE IT.
AND SO IF WE'RE NOT OPEN, YOU CAN GO IN AND PICK IT UP FROM THE COMPUTER CENTER, UH, AT ANY TIME THAT WE'RE OPEN.
SO THAT'S KIND OF A NICE FEATURE IN CASE YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO GET HERE DURING THE, THE TWO DAYS THAT IT'S OPEN THE PROBLEM AND YOU CAN RETURN EVERYTHING TO THE COMPUTER CENTER AS WELL.
SO, AND, AND YOU FEEL LIKE THAT'S HELPING MORE? I THINK IT'S HELPING A LITTLE BIT.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT IS STARTING TO GROW LIKE AS WE SEE, LIKE, I THINK, UM, WHAT DID ALEX SAY? I THINK WE'VE HAD LIKE 450 CHECKOUTS OR SOMETHING SINCE WE STARTED.
UM, SO YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING REGULARS WHO COME IN EVERY WEEK TO GET SOME NEW THING OR TO RECHECK OUT SOMETHING.
WELL IT'D BE NICE TO KNOW WHAT IS MOSTLY USED, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S POWER TOOLS FOR THE HOUSE.
IT IS SEWING MACHINES OR, OKAY.
I THINK I SEE A LOT OF, UM, MOWERS.
WE GET A LOT OF PEOPLE CHECKING OUT THE MOWERS AND THE UM, OH, HEDGERS.
A LOT OF LIKE THE GOOD GARDENING, GARDENING THINGS.
BUT THERE'S DEFINITELY BEEN SOME CHAINSAWS AND OTHER, YOU KNOW,
BUT YEAH, I CAN, I CAN FIND OUT.
I CAN ASK ALEX WHAT MOST WELL POPULAR ITEMS. YEAH.
WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERYBODY.
THANK YOU FOR COMING AND, UH, SHARP AND SWEET.
I'M GLAD THAT THE SAFE PEOPLE ARE HERE.
OUR NEXT MEETING IS OCTOBER 1ST.