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3 <br /> Library Services Task Force, Reconvened 2004 <br /> Final Report & Recommendations <br /> October 19 , 2004 <br /> The Library Services Task Force was appointed in January 2004 and charged by the <br /> BOCC <br /> "to review the Library Services Task Force report of November 2001 <br /> and to make recommendations to improve library services/facilities in <br /> Orange County specifically related to the expansion of the Central <br /> library in Hillsborough and the branch library in Carrboro . <br /> "Potential areas of study for the Task Force were : 1 ) pursue co - <br /> location of a new facility for the Central Library in Hillsborough with <br /> the Orange county campus ofdDurham Technical Community college <br /> scheduled to open in Fall 2006 , and 2) possibly combine Carrboro <br /> library operation of a Cybrary and the McDougle Branch Library . " <br /> Members of the Task Force were : Barbara Baker, DTCC ; Bridget Booher, Friends of the <br /> Orange County Public Library; Keith Cook , At-Large ; Evelyn Daniel , Library Services <br /> Task Force 2001 , .Amy Efland , Hyconeechee Board of Trustees ; Mike Gering, Town of <br /> Hillsborough ; Barry Jacobs, Board of Orange County Commissioners; Jessica Kern, <br /> Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees ; Senator Ellie Kinnaird , At-Large ; Nerys <br /> Levy, Friends of the Carrboro Library; Diana McDuffee , Carrboro Board of Aldermen ; <br /> Heidi Petry, Friends of the Carrboro Library; Jeffrey Schmitt, At-Large ; Brenda <br /> Stephens, Director of Hyconeechee Library System ; Lisa Stuckey, CHCCS ; Kathleen <br /> Thompson , Director of the Chapel Hill Public Libraty ; James Ward , Town of Chapel <br /> Hill . <br /> Commissioner Barry Jacobs , convened the first meeting and reviewed the charge and <br /> informed the group that the task force recommendations were to be completed and <br /> submitted by October 2004 . Evelyn Daniel was elected chair„ <br /> All meetings were held at the Central Library conference room in the Whitted facility. <br /> May 18 , 2004 <br /> June 7 , 2004 <br /> June 28 , 2004 <br /> July 6 , 2004 — Consultant with Library Director <br /> July 12 , 2004 — Consultant with LSTF members <br /> July 20 , 2004 — Orange County Library Staff met with the Consultant <br /> July 26 , 2004 — with Consultant <br /> August 9, 2004 — with Consultant <br /> August 18 , 2004 — Archival Task Force , subcomittee of the LSTF m <br /> September 7 , 2004 — with Consultant <br /> September 20, 2004 -- with Consultant <br /> October 12 , 2004 <br />