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Show Fate Of Davis County Library Uoadquarters Still In Question By ROSELYN KIRK faie of the Davis County ubrary Headquarters build-in Farmington, owned jointly by the Davis School ward and the Davis County rary is still in question. ON TUESDAY morning the rary board voted to appoint 'independent appraiser to Wermine the value of the Sliding so the library board ld buy out the school dis-"tf dis-"tf interest in the library-Then library-Then Tuesday evening the "is Board of Fducation Jstponed action on the sale ?'w building, indicating ney may need their half -book distribution center. THE library board called .esIcial meeting to make 'Kparaiions for the termina-,of termina-,of the union between the agencies, which has last-lor last-lor more than 30 years. July 1, the beginning of the fiscal year, has been set as the target date for the separation. During the meeting, the library board voted to buy out the equity held by the school board in the building based on the appraisal. The building was constructed on land owned by the county. The cost of construction was shared when the library' was built in 1962. DURING THAT time, the two agencies, in addition to sharing the building, have cooperated in the process of ordering and cataloging books. During the past year Jeanne Layton has served as librarian for both operations. The split came when the Davis School District took the option of having their books processed through the State Library Commission and .severed the relationship. The library board voted not to take that option and decided to process their own books, asking that the State Library Commission give Davis libraries the money they would use if they performed the service. THESE decisions were based on the report of a factfinding fact-finding committee headed by Fvan Whitesides, library board, and staffed by Ed Cammack, Davis School District, Dis-trict, and Jeanne Layton, County librarian. The library board voted to purchase the library headquarters based on the approval by the school board. Since the school board tabled the decision until June 21, no action can be taken on appraising the common, property until after that date. In addition to the building a van for transporting books will also have to be appraised. IF THE school board does not decide to sell their half of the library building, the library board may have to shift their processing center to the libraries in Bountiful and Clearfield, Miss Layton said. Personnel needs will decrease as the library processing needs are more limited. The library now employs 12 full-time employees, with the other five people being only part-time. Both Mr. Whitesides and Miss Layton said there will be a limited reduction in the full-time full-time staff, but could not identify exactly what the reduction would be. THIS YEAR 62 percent of the books processed through the center were purchased by the library. Most years a larger share of the books are processed for the school district. dis-trict. Even if the bulk in cataloging ca-taloging for the library continues con-tinues to increase, it still would not warrant maintaining maintain-ing all the personnel, Mr. Whitesides said. All processing personnel, who have been paid in the past by the school board, must now be transferred to the county payroll. Since all are currently covered by the state retirement system, that should not be difficult. Miss Layton said. The board agreed that employees would be allowed to carry over their sick leave benefits. IF THE school board does decide to go with the sale of the building to the library board, the county commission will have to approve the sale. Commissioner Zaugg said the county may not have the funds to pay for the equity in one bulk sum, but may have to extend the payments over a three or four year period. UNTIL final school board action is taken, Superintendent Superinten-dent Wrigley said, Hollis Grange, clerk treasurer of the school board will represent the school administration in property matters while Fd Cammack will deal with personnel per-sonnel questions. Superintendent Wrigley reminded the board that the district had purchased a lot behind the school district, but said the cost of constructing a building might be prohibitive. prohibi-tive. The school district hopes to save $75,000 in processing costs by going with the State Library Commission. THE LIBRARY board voted PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 2 Fate Of Davis Library In Question CONTINUED FROM FRONT not to go with a similar processing system since the state does not use the sophisticated sophis-ticated processing system needed to find books in the county libraries. Miss Lay ton had estimated earlier that additional steps necessary to incorporate the state processing system into the county cataloging system would cost about $23,000. |