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300.00 Cooperative Agreements

310.00            Minuteman Library Network

      To authorize the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Winchester Public Library to sign a letter to the Trustees of the Framingham Public Library stating in substance that the Winchester Public Library is prepared to purchase terminals and other peripheral equipment and to contract for the maintenance thereof as generally provided in the Minuteman Library Network.
      (December 19, 1983)

      To authorize the chairman, upon advice of Counsel, to sign an agreement between the Town of Winchester and the Town of Framingham regarding the Library Automation Network.
      (February 21, 1984)

      To execute the agreement between the Board of Trustees of the Winchester Public Library and the Minuteman Library Network in the form presented to the meeting and to authorize the Chairman or the Vice Chairman to sign said agreement. 
      (November 19, 1985)

310.10            Massachusetts MetroWest Library System

      To accept the invitation to join the Masschusetts MetroWest Library System
      (June 17, 1997)

310.20            Media One

      To accept the gift of the Media One Internet connection for the Library.
      (May 18, 1999)

320.00            Winchester Co-operative Bank

      To accept, with gratitude, a grant of $30,000 over three years for summer reading outreach programs, from the Winchester Co-operative Bank.
      (May 25, 1993)

      To acknowledge the contribution of the Winchester Co-Operative Bank to the Library, through its $30,000 donation to the R.O.A.R. program, by placing a plaque in the Children's Room of the renovated building.
      (March 21, 1995)

      To accept with grateful appreciation the $7,500 gift from the Winchester Co-Operative Bank  for the 1996 R.O.A.R. Program.
      (April 19,1996)

      To accept the gift of $5,000 for the on-going support of the R.O.A.R. Program through 1997.  This amount represents the difference between the remaining balance of $2,500 and this year's anticipated budget of $7,500.
      (October 7, 1996)

      To accept with grateful thanks the gift of $5,700 from the Winchester Co-Operative Bank that will be used to fund R.O.A.R., the summer reading program.
      (July 21, 1998)

      To gratefully accept the gift of $5,433 from the Winchester Co-Operative Bank to support the 1999 R.O.A.R. Program.
      (April 20, 1999)

      To accept the $5,843.00 donation from the Winchester Co-Operative Bank to pay for the R.O.A.R. 2000 summer reading program.
      (May 23, 2000)

      To accept $5,460 from the Winchester Co-Operative Bank to pay for the 2001 R.O.A.R. summer reading program.
      (May 15, 2001)

To accept the grant of $5,361.00 from the Winchester CO-Operative Bank to pay for the 2007 Summer Reading ROAR program.
(June 19, 2007)

330.00            Winchester Historical Society

      To accept the loan of the following artwork listed below to Winchester Public Library for a period of five years to begin on the date of this agreement.

              Winchester Center, 1845, by Dr. Richard Piper

      1. The Library agrees to display the painting for the benefit of citizens     passing through the library.

      2. The Society may withdraw the artwork from display should it deem the safety or the condition of the artwork to warrant removal.  The Society reserves the right to undertake any restoration work it deems appropriate.

      3. While the painting is on loan, it will be displayed with its present frame and with its current identifying plate bearing the Society's name.

      4. Except as stated in paragraph 5, the Library will bear all costs in connection with the painting while on loan, including the cost of insurance.

5. The Library will exercise care with respect to the art objects, but
      the Town of Winchester shall not have any liability to the Winchester   Historical Society of any kind on account of any loss or damage to the             artworks which may occur while the painting is on loan to the Library.

6. If the Society ceases to function as an active organization during the loan period, the painting will become the property of the Library as a gift    of the Society.

      Signed and dated June 16, 1998.
      (June 16, 1998)

330.10            The Archival Center Collections and the Public Library Collections

The Winchester Public Library recognizes that it is desirable that materials pertinent to the history and development of Winchester be collected and preserved.  The coming into existence of the Winchester Archival Center affords the library the opportunity to reevaluate its policy respecting the acquisition and preservation of such materials.

It is the view of the Library Trustees that the Winchester Public Library and the Archival Center should complement and supplement each other in their service to residents’ and researchers’ needs for information on Winchester.  The Winchester Public Library should maintain a collection of current materials including newspapers, Town publications, studies and other secondary sources which reflect the social, economic and political conditions and problems of Winchester and which will meet most students’ needs and general reference requests.  The Archival Center should concentrate on the collection, organization and preservation of unique historical materials—such as manuscripts, letters, photographs, artifacts, and local ephemera—for the use of scholars and historians and residents who need more than the Winchester Public Library can supply.  The Archival Center should seek out and acquire original sources to preserve and catalog them for posterity.

Whereas the Archival Center should attempt to preserve its materials in their original format, the Winchester Public Library should make its materials available for use in whatever format is consistent with continued use and durability.

There would of necessity be some overlapping of materials between the Winchester Public Library and the Archival Center.  In general, the Winchester Public Library would have printed, secondary sources of current interest and the Archival Center would have primary source materials and historical printed materials.  The Winchester Public Library and the Archival Center might cooperate in the acquisition and transfer of materials as appropriate to their needs and collections.  The Library must exercise responsibility in turning over valuable materials to some other entity which will give them as good care as would the library.
(Voted prior to 1990.  Date unknown)
     

340.00            Winchester Hospital

To accept a portrait of Jere Downs on a permanent loan basis from Winchester Hospital.
      (September 22, 1992)

POLICY MANUAL COMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS

100.00 BUILDING AND GROUNDS

200.00 BY-LAWS/ORGANIZATION

300.00 COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS

400.00 FEES / FINES / LOAN PERIODS / PRIVILEGES

500.00 HOURS OF OPERATION

600.00 PERSONNEL

700.00 SERVICES

APPENDIX A Freedom to Read Statement (ALA)

APPENDIX B Freedom to View Statement (ALA)

APPENDIX C Library Bill of Rights (ALA)

APPENDIX D Access to Electronic Information (ALA)

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