8/19/2003 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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do Date: August 1, 2003 To: Helene B. IeFoe From: Janet Burke Da . Monthly Reprt The month of July has seen a lot of activity in the Children's Room as over 200.children have .registered to participate in the Statewide Summer Leading Program. This past spring I collaborated with the public schools in lashpee and this year the reading logs were seat lone through the schools. All of the students in grades K through 4 are required to log their reading time. when they bring their reading log into the library, they receive a small prize for their reading effort and for visiting the library. The theme of the Sumner Reading Program is "Read! Thinly! Create! @ your library". In keeping with the theme, we have held a,Drop-In Craft Activity on Tuesday afternoons. The attendance was as follows: July 1 t July 'h 10 July I5'h .7 July 22='d 12 For older students, we have held a weekly Scrabble Club every Tbursday afternoon. We have 17 students registered and 2 parent volunteers. -The attendance varies each week: July 3 rd I I July I O,h 10 July 17t" 11 July 24'x' July 1st 1 As part of the Summer Reading program,,I have offered a Weekly Trivia Contest. The winner each week receives a"Read! Think! Create'. @ yo' r library" T-Shirt. We have had the following participation for the Trivia Contest; July 7th 1 entries July 14 h 51 entries July 21" 34 entries July 2 1-entries FamilySto ime was held on Jul 5 with an attendance'of 5. On July 8th we held an evening family event. The Friends of the Mashpee Library sponsored-storyteller, Alicia Quintano. The attendance for this event was 22. We .had a children's concert by Rick Goldin on July 29th. The I a h ee Cultural Council sponsored this event and the attendance was 120.