A.  2008 Book Sale April 3rd and 4th 

      Eloise has initiated lots of publicity for the Book Sale.  Eloise will send an article about the book sale to the Lode.  
The bag sale will be from 3:30 – 4:30 pm on Friday, April 4, 2008, and the bag price will be $5.  We have several 
work bees planned.  Eloise will contact Tau Beta Phi, and Faith will contact SIS about helping out with the book sale.  

      We discussed the up-coming book sale and our meetings and came up with the following schedule:

       Thursday, February 7, 2008           4 pm FVPL Meeting

      Saturday, February 9, 2008           11 am – 3 pm Winter Carnival Free Cocoa Event

      Thursday, March 6, 2008               3 pm Work Bee & 4 pm FVPL Meeting

      Thursday, March 27, 2008             4 pm Work Bee

      Thursday, April 3, 2008                 Book Sale Set Up, 5-7 pm Friends Pre-Sale

      Friday, April 4, 2008                     10 am – 4:30 pm Book Sale

      Thursday, April 24, 2008               4 pm FVPL Meeting

       Please REPORT any FVPL Book Sale publicity you see or hear to Eloise!

       Eloise had the book category table signs the FVPL uses on the tables at the book sale at the meeting.  
She noted that they look like they had seen better days, and perhaps we should consider making new ones.  

No one was sure who had made the ones we have.  Amy volunteered to make up a few sample new signs to
 help us decide what we want to do.

 B.  Book Cart Update 

       Karen reported that she had refilled the book cart today.

 C.  Econo Slips 

       No report.

D.  Art Committee Report

       Terry Reynolds had noted in an email message that the FVPL had over-spent our $6,000 art budget.  
$6,245 has been spent.  $1,200 was invoiced and paid for the Joyce Koskenmaki painting, which we had 
thought was going to be $1,000.  No one at the meeting knew the story behind the $1,200 cost.

 E.  Winter Carnival Hot Chocolate Giveaway and Book/Blanket Sale 

       We discussed the Winter Carnival Hot Chocolate Giveaway and Book/Blanket Sale.  Don sent a sign-up 
sheet around for donations of supplies and cookies and hot cocoa, and sign-up for times to work at this event. 
Phyllis should check with library staff to make sure that three (3) tables will be provided for the giveaway and sale. 
Faith will contact Blue Key to ask that our event be added to whatever Winter Carnival lists of events there will be.

  F.   Erik's request for $2,000 for a photo display in the library

       Erik’s request included the following paragraph:

I'd like to request $2,000 to support a semi-permanent photograph display in the public areas of the library adjacent 
to the entrance to the archives. Money from the FVPL would join a $500 bequest and $60 in donations from the 
archives' staff already assigned to the project.

       This request for $2,000 was approved.

 G.  New Business

       Faith believes that the FVPL needs to have a discussion about our vision for helping the library.  In what ways 
can the FVPL best help the library in its mission?  We will discuss this topic in up-coming meetings.

  The meeting adjourned at 4:55 pm.

 The next meeting will be Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 4:00 pm.