3/15/2005 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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IIlashpee Public Library P.O. Box 657 Mashpee, Ma. 02649 Circulation for February 2005 totaled 9,102 items, which are 1,258 items more than the sane time period last year. This is 16% more than February 200 4. Year-to-date circulation is also up 10% over last year. The library has circulated 1,309 sterns thus far this fiscal year. circulation has recovered strongly with the return to full staffing and the restoration of Friday hours. The library lost several days to snow storms this year but-is significantly ahead in transactions. I would say that this demonstrates that the library has recovered from the cuts in hours from the previous staff reductions. As you know, the library's grant application was hand delivered on February 8th. 1 have just received a checklist from the- BLC asking for some additional information, which hes already been provided in our gent application. I arra in the process of checking with Beth Wade, Grants Manager for the lIBLC. l believe the letter was an oversight on their part. The items they are looking for are attested copies (from the Town clerk) of our Town Meeting Grote and Debt Exclusion vote. If they do not a copy ofthe votes, I'll will forward thea to them as soon as possible. I mentioned at the last meeting that the staff had all filled out position analysis questionnaires for the town's classification study. Jared Clark, who is conducting the study, has conducted follow-up interviews with most of the staff. Janet Trask and I will be meeting with him on March 17th to complete the library's portion of the interviews. On March 3rd, I attended an all day workshop the town had arranged for department heads. ,Jerry Bruno, a management consultant that the town has used for previous workshops, conducted a session on Understanding Behavioral Style and how it affects your working style. There are four basic behavioral styles; Dominance D , Influencing i , Steadiness s and compliance C . Most municipal employees tend to be B or C. The department heads found the workshop very worthwhile and recommended that other staff have a chance to attend a session. We have also had a lot of turnover in the last year, so it provided an opportunity to interact with many of the new department heads.