12/12/2001 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Mashpee Public Library P.O. Box 657 I ash ee,, Ma 02649 Circulation for the month of November 2000 totaled 7,949 items.. Year-to-date,,the library has circulated 61,362 items. There were 2,802 fiction, 1 158 non-fiction, 143 periodicals, 329a erb ck , 776 audio books, 2,107 videocassettes, 14 music cassettes, 1 l music CODs, 9 puppets, 33 museum passes, 296 large print books. There were , 6 adult; transactions, 27362 juvenile transactions, and 104 young adult transaction this month. The library lent 418 it ins to other libraries for thein patrons and borrowed 252 items for Mashpee patrons. eighty-six patrons registered for library cards in during the month. During the month, there were 4,630 patron visits. During the month $548.70 in overdue fines was collected. This bring the year-to-date i total t $31351.47 collected and turned over to the treasurer's Office. • The most significant thing that happened since our last meeting was a failure of the heating system on .December 4"'. we had a problem with the system about a month earlier-and had a part replaced. As it turns out, that was probably the beginning of a major failure of the system. we had a service call, which restored the heat by noontime, but within ars hour, Kathy Makunas mentioned a slight smell of smoke. The rest of the staff couldn't smell anything and I told Kath I'd keep an eye on it. About two hours later, there was a stronger smell of smoke in the building and I called the Fire Department. They detected a crack in the furnace and immediately shut the heating stun down. If this had happened after hours, we probably would have had a fire in the building. It'took two days to get parts and a day and a half to clean up the soot in the furnace. Heat was restored about four o'clock on Thursday and the library reopened Friday afternoon. We are also,experiencing staff shortages. Mar a Howard has been out sick for over a w _ week and is not expected back anytime soon. She is scheduled for an NHU on Saturday because of unexplained pains in her leg.. I will be speaking to the Personnel Department 1 g to see if we canet n kind of temporary help if Marge's absence looks like it ill g g p � l beyond this week. . arleen ewers,Ed I eFoe and I met with Patience Jackson on December&to review our schematic drawings. Patience pointed out a number of areas she felt were working on revising these areas before submittin alar weaknesses in our layout. we are o g grant application. I have not made as much progress as I hoped on the library budget. luring the period without heat it was too cola to work on my computer in any office. We will be looking o increase Sandy Price's position to full-time next year. All departments are being asked to submit budgets as close to level funding as possible because the revenue picture for FY 2002 is uncertain. Increasing this Circulation Assistant positron to full--time is a high priority as you can see from the staffing difficulties we have had over the last week.