10/14/2004 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

Home Browse Search

session on how to access information Urfa Internet on grant funds availability. In a power point presentation, Martha demonstrated how to access the data base containing information on foundations looking to give grants to libraries having various financial needs, i.e., maintenance, grant writing, construction, and cultural and public service programs. Sheldon Gilbert and Helene DeFoe both attended the session. LBC Publicity Commhlee Report. Dave Burton reported that the Library Building Committee publicity sub-committee, chaired by Bonnie Barrett* has been very active during the past month. Sheldon Gilbert and Helene DeFoe appeared on Mashpee Focus, interviewed by JaniceWolford; information tables will be manned by LBC volunteers at Stop& Shop and Roche Brothers the weekends before Town Meeting and election might; posters with a rendering of the new library have been distributed to local banks, Boys& Girls club: Southport, 1Jarnpanoag Tribal Council, the Post office, Senior center and Mashpee Commons locales. telephone calf script will be used by LBC members to call 10 to 20 of their friends, urging them to get out the vote; presentations have been given to Mashpee Man's club, New Seabury Women's club, Mashpee rotary Club, and Mashpee Realtors' Group. LBC vol unteers will be stationed outside the school for both Town Meeting and Election might. A mass mailing will go out to all Mashpee residents with the message, "Vote YES for the New Library'. LBC Chairman Sheldon Gilbert has written a Later to the Editor to the Mashpee Enterprise. OLD BUSINESS. • Dave Burton announced that the storage shed has been ordered, and the building permit submitted to the Town. Delivery of the shed is several weeks away. Mr. Ralph Bartlett has saved us$2400 from the cost of a$5000 shed. • A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Friday re-opening of the library was not well attended, bort nevertheless greeted happily by library regular customers. An announcement of the re-opening appeared in the Mashpee Enterprise. • The finance committee recently met with Sheldon Gilbert and Bonnie Barrett and have since recommended support of the $ . MM debt exclusion for the new library. NEW BUSINESS. oltoberfest included library information tables, thanks to efforts by Ann MacDonald Dailey. Sherry Bergeron is also to be thanked for her efforts to provide brownie sundaes for sale at the Oktoberfest. Sherry personally-baled 648 brownies, wrapped thea individually, and solicited donors for the ice cream, paper plates and spoons. A letter of appreciation will be sent to sherry from the Board of Trustees. 0 Oktoberfest Book sale yielded$600 to$700. Jim Walker, another unsung hero behind the success of this project, also was behind the idea for the storage shed for bows. Jim will be sent a letter of thanks for his dedication to the Mashpee Library. The next meeting of the Mashpee Library Board of Trustees was scheduled for Tuesday, November 9', 2004 at 6:30 PNS, at the Mashpee Public Library. As there was no further business, the meeting wras adjourned at 7:40 PM. Respectfully submitted, Ina Schlobohm Recording Secretary(for Jean Giliberti