7/15/1997 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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BOARD of LIBRARY TRUSTEES JULY 15, 1997 7:00 P. M. I PRESENT:T: 14 ENE DEF E, LIBRARY DIRECTOR ANTON BUS IHENPFLDT CARO D'ESTE CHARLOTTE PAIEDIL MINI MARSH JADE STOCIRIDE { II MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. Minutes of the June 18, 1997 meeting were accepted as printed. III REPORTS: A. The Library Directorts report is attached hereto. The Young Adults circulation was 95 for the month of June 1997. The library is still in the process of separating the Young Adult materials from the Juvenile. Looking back at the records of past months, there were abo ut -25 items per month. Last month there were 50 items. This past month was 95 items. It appears that Junior High and High School students were finding that section and making use of it. Helene reported re. the stimmer program, with the kick-off performance at the college. This was a joint program o about 2.0 libraries. They had applied f.or some grant fundsYt. hire .a nationally known story-teller. Each library sold tickets to make up for the amounts to cover the balance due. There were full houses at both shows. what Helene particularly liked about the story-teller, he constantly wade reference to the library in his stories., We had a story-teller at the Mashpee Library the following week, Davis Bates. 1t was held on the. lawn of the library. About seventy people attended. Last week the first of the drop-in craft programs was started. Twenty-fire children participated. Today was the side- alb chalk acct program; sixteen. children participated in this. 84 children registered, to read at least five books this summer. Helene reported that later the meeting would discuss her evaluation. one of the goals was to increase the programs for children. B. Friends of the Library: Jaye Stockbridge is the new President of. the Friends of the Library.. The library trustees are delighted to have Jane with them. Jane reported that there had been at book sale last Saturday, "$2.00 bag". The sale bad earned $76.00. Jame reported that she had visited the library last week and had been able to dispose of many of the books. There aro places they can be sent, such as nursing homes. Some of the books are not in good enough condition to recycle, so they sometimes have to be disposed of. Jane ho ed to have her annual letter to the Friends sent out by next week..