MINUTES	     for the Adjourned, Special Meeting of the Board of Trustees
		     Monday, January 5, 1998, 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
  Council Chamber, Borough of Carnegie, One Glass Street, Carnegie, 
Pennsylvania

PRESIDING: Elizabeth B. Martin, President, Board of Trustees; QUORUM 
ESTABLISHED.
PRESENT:   Life Trustees:  Mary Hof, Elizabeth B. Martin, Joann Prion, 
Robert Valeriano, 
	       Glenn A. Walsh.
	       Ex-Officio Trustees:  Emmett Freshwater, Lawrence 
Harkovich, Robert Heinrich,
	       James Nelson, James Pascoe, David Pierce, Daniel Straughn.
	       Advisors: Victor Clay, Marcella McGrogan, Allen Turske.
ABSENT:     Life Trustees: Rosanna Bogats*, Douglas Dombrowski*, Daniel 
Duvall*, Jean Leipold*, 
	       Helen Shick*.
	       Ex-Officio Trustees:  None.
	       Library Director: Mary D. Malysko*.
*Secretary notified of inability to attend.

Call to Order.

Consideration of the following proposed amendment to the By-Laws of the 
Library -
This amendment replaces the first two sentences of Section 6 of the 
Andrew Carnegie Free Library
By-Laws as approved in 1900 and amended in 1995(copy of current By-Laws 
text on reverse side):
					"MEETINGS
	Section 6.   The regular Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees 
shall be held in March of each year, at which meeting officers of the 
Board shall be elected, statements and reports of Officers and Committees 
of the previous year received, and such other business transacted as may 
properly be brought before the meeting.  At the Annual Meeting, the date 
and time of the regular Monthly meetings for the following twelve months, 
and the Annual Meeting in March of the next year, shall be approved by 
the Board.  This Annual Schedule of Meetings shall be proposed by the 
President, and this proposal must be included in the meeting notice for 
the Annual Meeting.
	The Board shall meet on a monthly basis, no less than ten times 
per year.  The location of meetings shall be the Andrew Carnegie Free 
Library, unless specifically indicated otherwise."

	The Secretary(Acting), Glenn A. Walsh, read the proposed 
amendment; he then read the section of the By-Laws this amendment would 
replace, at the request of Valeriano.  There was a short discussion.

Action:  As provided for under authority of Section 22 of the current 
Library By-Laws, as amended in 1995, which states:	"Amendment of By-Laws
Section 22.  These By-Laws, or any section thereof, may be amended or 
repealed by two-thirds vote of the whole Committee at the Annual meeting, 
or at any special meeting called for that purpose, provided the 
resolution be presented in writing at least thirty days prior to date 
when said matter is to be voted upon."

Vote in Favor of By-Laws Amendment - Aye: 12, Naye: 0, Abstentions: 0.
	The By-Laws of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library were so amended.

Prompt Adjournment.

January 12, 1998							
Respectfully submitted,


								Glenn  A. Walsh
gaw								Secretary(Acting)