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<br /> Friday. September 26, 2003 Three Sections!Thirty-Four Pages Flus Supplement Seventy-Five Cents
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<br /> I IEN KELL N Last year alone, it.jumped 15 per{. f�A.: The director of the Sandwich cent, from $33r000 to $36,000. At
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<br /> Public Library has -notified Carpe the same time, some small r a�pb
<br /> cess s- libraries have seen their bills
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<br /> tern firm that networks•almost all LAMS 1� a oorr�pliad
<br /> ap hod libraries, that it' i-ll .not formulas that it uses to construct
<br /> renew its contract when it expires its fes. It's based on the number
<br /> in June f The decision ways ofwo-rk stations connected to it,
<br /> approved by the library's board of circulation numbers, how many
<br /> - -- trustees and after an initial start- items are in the individual li-
<br /> :r;,M' up fee, should save the llibrar braryRs collection,.arid- how man
<br /> • . ;.y:{,-.:_.t.r:::x...:t-.::.1:.::.- several thousands.of doiIars-each patrons the library,h'as."
<br /> year. In- other words, he said; S and-
<br /> Library Director Richard Corr with pays more because it is the
<br /> }, ry nor said that the library will -be second largest Aibrary on the
<br /> contracting instead with Old Col- Cape. Fat mouth-i.s first. In O.CLNP
<br /> ony Libraries Network' CLN , however, Sandwich with �O,00O
<br /> which serves 26 libraries from items in Its collection as com
<br /> Plymouth to Quincy.- .LN,, be-. pared to Plymouth, which- has
<br /> ,,." ... cause of its size, has larger collet-. more. than 233,000 items, will fal l
<br /> tions and will offer a more eaten- 'somewhere in the middle, Thus,
<br /> Photographs by TERI STANLEYIENTERPRISE sive selection df materials. = its service fees would decrease.
<br /> Hyannis-based CLAMS net- The cost ofitehin from
<br /> ...';;.„ works libraries g L he new system will-be
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<br /> purer system. It also provides about $15,000 the first year, but
<br /> catalog information and aute� Mr.. Connor said, after that the
<br /> mates circulation. Sandwich savings should be substantial. If
<br /> } F+ joined CLAIMS when the service Sandwich had contracted. with
<br /> was introduced in'the.late 1980s.os, LN this past .lune,' the service
<br /> ' CLAMS is only one of many such fee would have been $23,000. Mr:
<br /> natives around the state- Connor said that over the rears,
<br /> .= Holders of CLAMS card can l�N has'nianaged to beep its fee
<br /> }._ = access any library in the system. increases smaller.
<br /> Materials can be picked up at one I� seems to have been
<br /> i -. library -and dropped off at an- able to maintain cosh better than
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<br /> other. This means that all librar- CLAMS,'" he said.
<br /> ies, regardless of size, can offer Like other municipal services
<br /> the same vii e election of mate- int rD, the library has feed li-
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<br /> rials. The system allows individ nancia L. cutbacks, and this year
<br /> ual libraries to concentrate on avoided,staff. reductions by cut
<br /> different areas. For example, .. ting back on employee hours,
<br /> Falmouth- has a. large collection Nutt year,th .fiscal piett re could
<br /> of books on tape-while Sandwich 'be worse. Mr-':Connor said..that
<br /> t d nt and tafl' at the Oak 'continuos to add to It collectionswitching,;to, LN. i11~-result in'
<br /> Ridge chooI 'were T eri - n on glass rnakfn and hndwic. s'ubs'tantial savings that could
<br /> upclo e look at hot air glass. save jobs_
<br /> ballorinVionday. A view But the service tonnes with a .: Aside' from costst_Mr. Connor
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<br /> cost, and according to Mr. Connor, said he supports the switch to
<br /> R lci€ g into the bash that that cost has been increasing better maintain control of the li-
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