2/9/1999 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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1 5 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 9 , 1999 oo -P , M. I MEMBERS PRESENT: HELENE DEFE, LIBRARY DIRECTOR DAVID BURTON CARL 'D 'E S TE TERI HYDE MIMI MARSH RICHARD SHAU HNESSY ALSO PRESENT : ROSE SHANIER, President of FRIENDS II MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING: Corrections to minutes- .of January 1999 : P. Last Paragraph, lst sentence : .'Woman. ' name is Rae Dell Record . The minutes of January 5 , 1999 accepted as corrected . III REPORT FROM FRIENDS OF T-HE MASHPE LIBRARY Rose Sharer , President of the Friends reported that they had had a wonderful success in teras of spirit and feelings of camaraderie for the piano recital . Father .Tosti was very charming. Rose re- ported that she had feelings of support from members of the com- munity . Apart from all of that , interms of- what money was made, was very little, They found that the quality printing they had dome was quite costly . The other large expense was postage to which they had had a very poor response. In addition'. the cost of setting up the reception at the end of the recital , which was lovely. Everything was quality , which did drain their funds , so that they did not 'make the money that they had hoped to rake . Teri reported that she had, had seventeen calls on her phone the following day , several from volunteers for anything that we 1 ht do in the fu'tur'e i Carlo made the suggestion that we, as the board send Mr. Rosea note of thanks . Carlo, state_ d that he would be happy to `write it , if he was given Mr. Rosen' s address , Strictly from the Board of Trustees '. Town of Mashpee. Mimi thanked Rose for all of her efforts in organizing the concert , Iv LIBRARY DIRECTOR REPORTS : Helene passed out the December -1998 report which she had promised us at the January meeting . December was a pretty busy month, over 7 , 000 items . They had also issued 76 new library cards . Helene explained that she had attended a Planning Grant Workshop early in December , for the grant that was due late inJanuary. It turned out to be a fair amount of work which coincided with the budget period . Ann Larsen who was the joint presenter at this workshop paid a visit to the library .. ' She had visited all of the libraries that had submitted letters of intent for this grant to get a better idea of what our situation was , so that