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. ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRAGT <br />Meeting Date: December 12, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. q- e, <br />SUBJECT: Creation of a New Library Services Task Force <br />DEPARTMENT: Library & Manager's Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1.10/19/04 BOCC Abstract with 2004 <br />Task Force Final Report <br />2. Library Consultant's Report - 2004 <br />3. Excerpt from October 19, 2004 BOCC <br />Minutes <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Clerk's Office, 245-2130 <br />PURPOSE: To consider the creation of a Library Services Task Force to. review and update the <br />2004 Library Services Task Force Report presented to the BOCC on October 19, 2004. <br />BACKGROUND: In January 2004, the BOCC formally re-convened a Library Services Task <br />Force and charged it with reviewing its original .work from November 2001 and making <br />recommendations on improving library services/facilities -especially as they related to the <br />Central Library in Hillsborough and the branch library in Carrboro - by the fall of 2004. <br />The Task Force conducted a total of twelve meetings extending from May through October. In <br />July 2004, consultant Dale Gaddis, retired Durham County Public Librarian, was retained to <br />prepare a needs assessment of Orange County library facilities. Her report, issued in <br />September 2004, provided background material for review and recommendations by the Task <br />Force. <br />The 2004 Task Force Final Report, provided at Attachment 1, addressed the following major <br />areas, among other opportunities: Construction of a .new Central Library; Consolidation of the <br />Cybrary and McDougle Branch Libraries in Carrboro; Establishment of an Orange County <br />Heritage Center; and Establishment of a Branch Library to Serve the Efland -Cheeks Township. <br />A copy of the consultant's report is included at Attachment 2. Minutes from the BOCC <br />discussion of the Task Force Report, presentation, and public comments are provided at <br />Attachment 3. <br />With the authorization of the Expanded County Campus Proposal on November 2, 2006 (which <br />includes a new two-story public library building of 23;454 sq. ft.), and along with consideration of <br />establishing a Heritage Center within the space the present central library would vacate at the <br />Whiffed building, the BOCC briefly discussed on December 4th revisiting and updating the 2004 <br />