5/19/2015 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES MEETING TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2015 MASHPEE LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM Present: Carlo D'Este, Kate Milde, Joan Lyons, and Allen Waters. Absent: John Kowalski, Mark Wright, and Mary LeClair. Also Present: Kathy Mahoney — Library Director Audience: Ryan Bray — Mashpee Enterprise Carlo D'Este, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 4:11 p.m. and welcomed newly elected Trustees Joan Lyons and Allen Waters to the Board. Carlo suggested Joan and Allen Google "library trustee handbook". He said it is a good, simple reference tool published by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC). Before addressing the agenda, there was a brief Library Staff/Trustees introduction period during which Carlo D'Este, on behalf of the Trustees, expressed thanks and appreciation to the Library Staff members for their fine efforts and dedication to the library. Approval of Minutes.. —Tabled until next meeting. Friends of the Mashpee Public Libra Kate Milde reported: • Friends will be holding weekly meetings up to the June 18'x' event. • Friends hope to get out invitations for the June 18 gala ... to be held 5-8 p.m. at New Seabury. Friends are looking for total of $4,000 for complete sponsorship of the event. Doing silent and live auction. Emphasis going to be Fifth Anniversary of the new Library Building. • Kate said Friends looking forward to seeing Library Trustees at the June 18`x' gala. Repo Kathy Mahoney's Library Director's Report for May was reviewed and discussed. Kathy suggested that now that the Library has celebrated five years in operation in the new building, it is time to begin the conversation about expanding library hours. The library is currently open 42 hours a week, but state law mandates that communities with population of 15, 000 or more be open to the public 50 hours or more each week. Although Mashpee has not reached that milestone, it has surpassed 14,000 and demand for more hours is often voiced by the public, Kathy indicated that increasing hours gradually over time in small increments would make the transitions more manageable. She indicated that the first addition of hours should be Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Currently the library is open from 12 Noon until 7:00 on those days, and she would like to expand the fours on those day to 10:00-7:00, for a total of four additional hours a week. At this point, there is no timeline for implementing this change, but she wanted to raise the issue for future consideration. She will need to review schedules and operations and determine what resources might be necessary to add those hours. The grant application that Kathy authored for the town to receive grant funds for an archivist to work with town departments was approved by the state. The archivist will be coming in July to visit. Kathy said Library will be launching the program with the schools to get children to have library card.