NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING 

LIBRARY BOARD OF CONTROL MEETING AGENDA

MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2024

4:00 pm Board of Control Meeting 

Ville Platte Main Library

916 West Main Street, Ville Platte, Louisiana 70586

(If you have a disability, please notify us ahead of time for accommodations)

i. Opening Business

1. Call to Order, Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance

2. Roll Call

3. Approval/Amendment of Agenda

4. Approval of Minutes from Previous Meeting 

5. Public Comments on Agenda Items

ii. Old Business

1. New Basile Branch Library meeting 2/20/2024 to review Architectural Rendering of the new library. See attached print outs.

iii. New Business

1. Short presentation by Tony Adams with EAG-LED Global lighting company about a grant opportunity from CLECO to change all light fixtures to LED units at our main library and perhaps the branches. 

2. Request to change operating hours at our Mamou branch library to allow closing on Friday afternoons due to staffing concerns and historically low attendance. 

3. Renewal of the Polaris Multi-Tenant Hosting Contract by Innovative for $14,600.

4. The Library Southwest, Inc. Consortium (LSW) is considering disbanding (We share Overdrive/Libby access through them). We will explain the impact of this move.

5. 2024 Spring Book Fest is slated for Saturday, May 4, 2024

iv. Reports

1. Financial Report

2. Facilities Report

3. Outreach Report

v. Next Board Meeting is May 13, 2024 @ 4 pm

   vi.          Adjournment 

Our Chair Exercise program is getting very popular! It will be offered again on Monday, March 11^th at 10:30 am at the main library.  The public is invited to try it out! If you live in the areas of our Basile, Mamou and Pine Prairie branches, they also offer a Chair Exercise program times noted on their Facebook pages. Please share this good news.  The Library Board of Control will meet on Monday, March 11^th @ 4 pm in the Multipurpose Room of them main library in Ville Platte. An agenda is posted. On Tuesday, March 12^th @ 10 am and again @ 4:30, we will host a Medicare 101 information session. This is a free service and open to the public. 

Our March “Artist of the Month” is me, Suzy Lemoine! I am displaying my book art in the hopes of inspiring others to see discorded books as a wonderful medium for artistic expression! Check out my display in our donated Curio Cabinet. Our Friends of the Library book sale is now offering folks the opportunity to “Fill Up a Bag of Books” for $1.00. This sale is confined to discorded books only. 

We now have an Infinity Game Table at four of our libraries: Basile, Chataignier, Mamou and Pine Prairie! These games tables offer hours of fun playing digital games for ALL ages. With over 50 games inside of each table, lots of fun awaits! Here are a few titles – Kids: Candy Land, Checkers, Chicken Wrangle, Chutes & Ladders, Color Create and Connect 4.  Teens: Clue, Chess, Battle Ship, Sorry, Find It and Monopoly to name a few. Adults: Solitaire, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Puzzle Play and what’s the Word.  We are looking forward to getting one for Turkey Creek and the main library before Summer Reading programs begin!

EARLY NOTICE: (1). (2) Our Spring Library Fest is slated for Saturday, May 4, 2024. Please The deadline for submitting vendor participation forms for all types of participants is April 19, 2024. Contact Keishia Ford or any employee of the library for more information.This is a FREE family fun event and is a way for the Library to say Thank You to its patrons and to show support for local cooks, artists, performers, authors and civic organizations!

 Visit the Facebook page of your favorite library branch to see information about programs unique to them. Also, visit our website www.evangelinelibrary.org for updates. You can always call the main library @ 337-363-1369 or send an email to [email protected] for more information and never forget that libraries do change lives…. even in the cloud! Suzy Lemoine

TOP GUN instructor Colt Bancroft has just catapulted off the USS Abraham Lincoln, his F-35C Joint Strike Fighter trailing blue and yellow flame as he climbs into the night sky off the California coast. When he is sent to investigate a series of mysterious lights floating dangerously close to his aircraft carrier, disaster strikes. His jet becomes unresponsive as it rolls inverted and enters a nosedive aimed right at the aircraft carrier’s unsuspecting escort cruiser… What follows is a tale of heroism and betrayal, spycraft and suspense, and aerial combat against an unexpected adversary. To clear his name and unmask a traitor, Colt must survive a dangerous game of spy-vs-spy, where trusting the wrong person could cost him his life. To stop the enemy from hitting their ultimate target, Colt must use every ounce of his skill and training…and uncover the identity of the UNKNOWN RIDER.

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING

LIBRARY BOARD OF CONTROL MEETING AGENDA

MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2024

4:00 pm Board of Control Meeting

Ville Platte Main Library

916 West Main Street, Ville Platte, Louisiana 70586

(If you have a disability, please notify us ahead of time for accommodations)

1. Opening Business

1. Call to Order, Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance
2. Roll Call
3. Approval/Amendment of Agenda
4. Approval of Minutes from Previous Meeting
5. Public Comments on Agenda Items

1. Old Business
2. New Basile Branch Library meeting 2/20/2024 to review Architectural Rendering of the new library. See attached print outs.

1. New Business

1. Short presentation by Tony Adams with EAG-LED Global lighting company about a grant opportunity from CLECO to change all light fixtures to LED units at our main library and perhaps the branches.
2. Request to change operating hours at our Mamou branch library to allow closing on Friday afternoons due to staffing concerns and historically low attendance.
3. Renewal of the Polaris Multi-Tenant Hosting Contract by Innovative for $14,600.
4. The Library Southwest, Inc. Consortium (LSW) is considering disbanding (We share Overdrive/Libby access through them). We will explain the impact of this move.
5. 2024 Spring Book Fest is slated for Saturday, May 4, 2024

1. Reports

1. Financial Report
2. Facilities Report
3. Outreach Report

• Next Board Meeting is May 13, 2024 @ 4 pm

    vi.          Adjournment  

Emma hasn’t told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn’t spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she’s pregnant-right as the bank account slips into the red. That’s when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents’ house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can’t sell it, but they can live in it. But returning home means that Emma is forced to reveal her secrets to her husband: that the house is not a run-down farmhouse but a stately mansion, and that her parents died there. Were murdered. And that some people say Emma did it. Emma and her sisters have never spoken about what really happened that night. Now, her return to the house may lure her sisters back, but it will also crack open family and small-town secrets lots of people don’t want revealed. As Emma struggles to reconnect with her old family and hold together her new one, she begins to realize that the things they have left unspoken all these years have put them in danger again.

And this one……

This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time — it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. Our old friendships concealed hatred and a desire for revenge. What followed was a game of cat and mouse — a battle of wits, full of twists and turns, building to an unforgettable climax. The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered. But who am I? My name is Elliot Chase, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard.