9/8/1998 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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BOARD of LIBRARY TRUSTEES REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 . 1998 7 ; 00 Po Me I PRE-SENT : H LENS DEF E LIBRARY DIRECTOR DAVID BURTON ANTON BUS HENFELDT MIMI MARSH TERI HYDE ALSO PRESENT : JANE STOCKBRIDGE PRESIDENT . FRIENDS of THE MASHPEE LIBRARY II MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING,: . Minutes of August 11 , 1998 were accepted as presented. III REPORTS : Director ' s Report : Helene passed, around copes of her report for the month of August , 1998 ; a very busy month., 11 ,.855 items , slightly less - than last August ,, -which was the bu. iest month the library ever had . What amazed the stiffwas the number of new cards issued last month, 123 new cards . The summer 'reading progxam ended with their party on August 12th. The party was limited to just children, and the meeting - room was filled . Mo the clown entertained the, children . Each child was presented with a certificate signed by Gov . Celluccl, and each child received a book to tak home. Last month the shelving for the military and their plans for that were discussed . An unexpect-ed plus of moving the military infor- mation -is nfor- m ti n -is we were able to move all the handouts off the table in the Adult Department . This freed. up two tables that patrons can use for research, etc . Friends o.f the Library. .Report ; ,Jane Stockbridge announced that she planned. to resign as president of Friends of the Library as of September 29 , 1998 . ,Jane. stated that she is -not resigning from the Friend She will continue to help , but will be unable to fulfill the duties of president -past the September 29th date. .Jane granted to. thank all of those. who had he'lpe-d. her in her capa- o ity as president of, the Friends and she also wanted t thank David. Burton for doing wonderful. job on the potrd campaign. ,Jane expa,l ined that she had had an executive board meetin.g , and at .the. executive board meeting , she found out that their book bags had arrived . Jane had a sample -book -bag to present to the meeting . The book bags will sell for $10. 00 ap iec'e. .Jane suggested we place a full display of the book. bags on the shelf of the mini-book sale area as soon as possible. .Jane explained that they had purchased the minimum that they could order - 3 . Mini suggested that she felt at least another 50 book bags should be ordered at this time.