8/9/1994 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES MONTHLY MEETING TUESDAYF AUGUST 9. 1994 7 :00 Pe M I PRESENT: H. D FOE, LIBRARY DIRECTOR ToWV 1994 o. ROBERTSON,TSOCHAIRMAN NPik C, HAw RE &E 10 HYDE G, SELAIDE Re SHAUGHNESSY M* MARSH II MINUTES of PREVIOUS MEETING: Corrections for Minutes of July 12, 1994 : Business from Previous Meetings * should read: "He DeFoe asked the trustees if they wanted to resubmit the previous article for reclassi- fication of .two clerical positions,, , , , * ositi.ons. . . . . oil Minutes of July 12th accepted as corrected. III REPORTS: A. Librarian: H. DeFoe explained that the librarian' s re ort was a slightly different format than previous reports. She further explained that up until last year the statistics had been manually prepared. Now that statistics were gen- erated by CLIUIS, she had a figure taken from the daily reports, but there was no breakdown. The breakdown appears later in the month, too late for the monthly meeting report, Helene reported this was the busiest month the Masbpee n. . Library had ever had. The library showed an almost 120 � item increase. The number of patron visits was also u substantially, 1500 more people than the previous year, Dick Shaughnessy suggested Helene could, in the essence of making less work for her, wait until the Town Accountant' s once-a-month sheet appeared to report the library expenses to the Board of Trustees. B. Friends : T. Hyde reported that the Friends had earned $38 .75 from the mini book sale; $133 . 85 from the Saturday's sale. Terry reminded the trustees that on September 8th, Thursday, at 7 : 00 p. m. they would set things up for the Saturday 9/10 book sale. It was suggested that one or two tables be set up outside during the good weather to attract attention to the book sale.