SWAN Board & Staff:
I want to provide you a quick overview of a positive situation for SWAN. The Franklin Park Public Library approached me over the summer about SWAN membership. Currently they are a member of the LINC consortium of 9 libraries.
I discussed the situation with Carol Dawe, Administrator of the LINC consortium, during our conference in Utah. The LINC board and member library directors were made aware of the developing situation. Franklin Park originally was a member of the DuPage Library System, but with the library system merger (resulting in the creation of RAILS), the options available to the library to switch consortia membership emerged. The library borders SWAN libraries nearby, so the Franklin Park library board has been interested in switching to SWAN for some time prior to contacting me. This decision was essentially driven by geography.
As a first step, the Franklin Park Public Library took board action last week on October 14 to terminate the LINC membership. Until that took place, I was asked to keep this confidential. The board approved the termination with LINC for July 1, 2016.
The Franklin Park Library Board agenda is posted here:
http://www.franklinparklibrary.org/pdfs/agenda/Agenda2014oct.pdf
Next month we will need to discuss Franklin Park for membership approval, the RAILS LLSAP grants, and project timeline. I will work with Franklin Park on the next round of RAILS LLSAP grant funding.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board Members:
The Friday 10/17 meeting packet is now available for you:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2014-10-17/pa…
The meeting packet is 33 pages long. Included in this packet are updates on the RAILS LLSAP negotiation and SWAN policies. The agenda is rather light so we do not anticipate the meeting to go into lunch.
We look forward to seeing you next Friday! Enjoy your weekend :)
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hi SWAN Board:
For those interested, the Personnel Committee packet for this Friday is now available at the link below. Ditto goes for any questions that you might have about the items discussed!
Thanks,
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
From: Brande Redfield
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 9:33 AM
To: Rich Wolff (RWolff(a)tplibrary.org); pgregoire(a)frankfortlibrary.org; James Deiters (JDeiters(a)olpl.org)
Cc: Aaron Skog (aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info)
Subject: Personnel Committee Packet Available - Friday Oct 10
Importance: High
Hello Personnel Committee,
Happy Monday! The packet for our Friday, October 10 meeting is now available here:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2014-10-10/pa…
I've tried to redline and add comments wherever I could, but will certainly have a lot of information to share in person as well. Much of the wording I've used is suggestion and of course very open to change so please bring your own notes for edits as you feel are needed, or send me any questions or request for clarification beforehand as well.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday,
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hello SWAN Board,
Attached is the Executive Director evaluation form for Aaron's yearly review. As noted at today's board meeting, this form should be filled out electronically and emailed back to Rich and Pierre no later than Friday, October 31st.
This will be compiled by the leadership and delivered during the November SWAN Board meeting.
Thanks!
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board Members:
The Friday 9/12 meeting packet is now available for you:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2014-09-12/pa…
The meeting packet is 41 pages long. Included in this packet are suggested updates and information on a few SWAN policies ready for review, a final version of the new IT Sys Admin position job description, and the Executive Director yearly review template. We do not anticipate that we will go past lunch, so no lunch will be provided unless we do.
See you on Friday!
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
I am unavailable for this Friday¹s meeting.
With apologies,
David
David J. Seleb, Executive Director, Oak Park Public Library
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From: Brande Redfield <brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info>
Reply-To: <brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info>
Date: Monday, September 8, 2014 at 1:40 PM
To: "swanboard(a)list.swanlibraries.net" <swanboard(a)list.swanlibraries.net>
Subject: [SWANboard] SWAN Board 9/12/14 Meeting Packet Posted
SWAN Board Members:
The Friday 9/12 meeting packet is now available for you:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2014-09-12/pac
ket2014-09-12_0.pdf
The meeting packet is 41 pages long. Included in this packet are suggested
updates and information on a few SWAN policies ready for review, a final
version of the new IT Sys Admin position job description, and the Executive
Director yearly review template. We do not anticipate that we will go past
lunch, so no lunch will be provided unless we do.
See you on Friday!
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info
<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net <http://support.swanlibraries.net>
Hi SWAN Board,
Here is the current orientation guide that we have for new board members. The "checklist" is attached to the email - this is the agenda of topics to cover during a formal orientation. We can also provide a binder of SWAN documents, or if the new board member prefers a virtual experience, the link below has an 'Orientation Documents' section at the bottom:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/content/swan-board-committees
The tour and introductions component could either be done at the beginning of a board meeting, or if the new member(s) can come a little early we can do it before. We are also happy to meet with them on a separate occasion.
That is the format as it stands now - any feedback is greatly appreciated! :)
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board Members:
The Friday 8/15 meeting packet is now available for you:
https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2014-08-15/pa…
The meeting packet is 52 pages long. Included in this packet are updates on the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts, FOIA and OMA, and an update from the SWAN IT Manager. We do not anticipate the meeting running past lunchtime so no lunch will be provided.
See you this Friday!
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
On behalf of Rich Wolff:
Hi All,
The COW agenda will be going out shortly for the meeting on 8/12 and I wanted to remind all of you that Pierre and I will not be at the meeting. Shelia as the Secretary will be running the meeting.
On the agenda you will see listed -"Overview of the White Paper Recommendations of Approved Policies." This discussion should be led by the board with the help of Aaron and the staff as needed. As Pierre stated in an email, , "straight forward. Hopefully we will not have a "let's re-argue the decisions you already made" membership moment..." and I agree. Thorough discussion took place at the July board meeting and we do not have to defend or rehash the discussion. I think each proposal should be presented and the changes that were made from the original proposal should be highlighted.
If you would Aaron, please give the board a copy of the approved policies with the changes from the original proposals noted. I also think it would be nice if the membership received copies of the approved polices for the meeting.
I also think it should be a group presentation from the board, as we all had input into the discussion.
I am sorry I will not be at the meeting, my wife is having a procedure done that day and I need to be there.
Have a good week!
Rich
Richard A. Wolff
Administrator
Tinley Park Public Library
(708) 845-5718
rwolff(a)tplibrary.org<mailto:rwolff@tplibrary.org>
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hi All,
We will be electing officers tomorrow and I was wondering if anyone had a strong interest in running. I know that David is not interested and if someone will nominate me, I am interested in being president.
Please write back to me (not the group) to let me know your interest or lack there of.
Thanks and see you tomorrow.
Rich
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