This meeting of the Board of Library Trustees.

And uh we may see you run through roll call.

Chair Delorier.

Trustee Silvera.

Here.

Vice Chair Petty.

Present.

Trustee Moreau.

Trustee Joshi present.

All of our trustees are present.

And from the staff side, and myself, Brian Edwards, assistant library director, Melissa McGee.

We have our intern Ariana.

And Julie and Neil here.

So table today.

Well, I'm sorry, do you say Ariana?

We can come with it.

I think all I need to do are.

Well, I'm not going to go to our our bad first name is Ariana.

So Ariana in English, yeah.

Are you from one of those?

Yes, I do.

Yeah.

Well, welcome.

We're lucky to have you.

Thank you.

Okay.

So there is so public presence.

And no.

I meant to start, so we would begin with the presentations.

Right.

We'll start with the presentation, but I don't have one in there.

Yeah, yeah.

So I just wanted to go over.

I don't have the physical items in here, but just wanted to let you guys know.

I don't want to screen.

But if you guys want me to share or talk more about this, but essentially our plan for what we call the memory, and this was part of what was in our MC Gibbs proposal for last fiscal year.

Last year, yeah.

And so last fiscal year, we I got a program called Memories of Monterey.

And with that uh raised funding and we received our new microfilm reader.

And one of the things for the background of that is that when we went to Windows 11, the last microfilm reader only worked up to Windows 10.

It didn't wasn't going to work with Windows 11.

And so this city was updating all that, so we had to get a new microfilm reader for all of that.

Um we then have gotten into agreements with MC Weekly to scan all of their old digital, all of their bound copies of Coast Weekly, coasting Monterey County weekly and have those hosted on our newspaper site.

And then the Monterey Peninsula Herald will be digitizing those as well.

But one of the projects we talked about in the MC GIFs proposal was to do a memory lab.

Now memory labs um started off with different public libraries up and across the state, the state of California.

Oftentimes these are what we call like a DIY memory lab where you just go into the library and there's equipment there for you to use.

But um we are looking at having it somewhat facilitated because what happens with technology and different devices right there is that often people get frustrated and get locked up.

We even have that with our public computers, public computers is pretty often printers, all of that copiers.

So, and it takes time to do this.

Most of these things you are doing a one-to-one conversion, meaning if you want to digitize an old VHS tape, you play the VHS tape at one-to-one speed, sit there and record it, right?

It's not like a fast forward and it just goes through a thing like microfilm best.

That's one thing I was wondering when I was reading about this.

Will it be possible on this for somebody who has I saw eight millimeter in the couple lines there?

So I'm just wondering, does that mean that either old super eight or eight millimeter filmed activities can be at least put on a disk, if not on a jump drive?

Yes.

So we already have the real time, not it real time.

So you would actually have it, and the way it works, the eight millimeter reader has a small screen on on it.

So it plays it, you see it on the device right in front of you, and then you're it records it out onto um whether you have your you know your HDMI cable to your own laptop or a hard drive or a USB drive, but you would have it on there.

So what we plan to do is like have basically one hour or two hour sessions because we know people are going to be recording like periods of time, but yeah, we have an eight millimeter super eight film reader, as well as the um so if your movie on the reel is an hour long, you'll have to sit there for an hour to transfer it.