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January 19, 2021, BLT Agenda Comments
These comments on Newport Beach Board of Library Trustees (BLT) agenda items are submitted by:
Jim Mosher (jimmosher@yahoo.com ), 2210 Private Road, Newport Beach 92660 (949-548-6229)
Item 1. Minutes of the Dec 21, 2020 Board of Library Trustees Meeting
Suggested correction: The passage shown in italics below is from the draft minutes with a
suggested correction indicated in strikeout underline format.
Page 1 (5 of packet), Item V.2: “Chair Watkins complemented complimented Rebecca Lightfoot
on 16 patron responses in the past month.”
Item 6. Review of the NBPL Internet Use Policy (NBPL 5)
On agenda packet page 28, in the second paragraph from the end where a sentence is crossed
out, I would keep that sentence and cross out the one before it. “Adult Library patron” sounds
better to my ear than “Library adult patron.”
Item 7. Review of Rules for Acceptable Use of Wireless Internet
Connections
On agenda packet page 35, I do not understand the intent of the existing opening phrase of the
policy: “Regardless of the Wi-Fi source, …”
Whatever its intent, the remainder of the sentence appears, by itself, to make the policy apply to all
Wi-Fi use on NBPL premises.
I would, therefore, either delete the phrase or clarify its intent.
For example, if the Trustees want the policy to be applied even to use of Wi-Fi signals being
provided by someone other than NBPL, that should be clearly stated.
Item 9. Newport Beach Public Library eBranch Review
Regarding ”2. eBOOKS AND eAUDIOBOOKS” on agenda packet page 45, Wikipedia has a good
list of outside sources for on-line books and articles.
Among those, the Hathi Trust is notable as a major public access point to resources scanned from
the University of California collections (as well as those of many other college libraries).
As the staff report suggests, many of the online resources are confined to resources that are out of
copyright, but not all are. For example, the Internet Archive/Open Library allows limited access to
many in-copyright works.