8/16/2005 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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4 [ashpee Public Library P.o. Box 657 Il ashpee, Ma 62649 Circulation for .duly 2005 totaled 13,607 items{, which is 509 items more than last July. Luring the month, CLAMS a one major telecommunications outage, which left all cape libraries offline for about day and a half_ During the outage, staff hard wrote transactions and keyed therm in the following day. Patrons were very considerate about limiting the number of items they took out those days to ease the workload on the staff. CLAMS has since replaced some routers at their office that caused the problems. The library has been extremely busy this summer. The hot Breather and lack of beech weather has contributed to very hectic days at the library. We have had days when there have been lines of patrons gaiting for the Internet stations from opening to closing. We had one patron who complained about the slowness of the computer equipment. He asked me who was responsible for purchasing computer equipment for the library. All computer equipment is handled through the Information Technology IT Department. The patron called the Tern Manager and asked that the town upgrade our Oublic access computers. She has instructed the IT Department to upgrade our public access computers. David C elvecchio, IT Department bead, is working on getting some new computers for the library. I'm hoping that will be accomplished during September. We have been receiving many questions about the status of the library construction project. To answer some of these questions: I have put up a display of the library floor plans in the lobby showcase. In the lower half of the showcase! I have included information on the success of the grant, and information about ongoing fund raising activities. As everts take place and as we add to our financial goal, I will use this space to keep the community informed. As people ask about the project, we direct therm to the display as well as verbally answering their questions. Many of the questions are about what the time frame for construction is, the location of the new library and where we will go daring construction. i had an interesting discussion with a parent today about if the library would be open more hours than we are now. While that is the plan, was able to explain to her that hours were connected to staffing and budget and were not driven by the size of the library. That hadn't occurred to her but she could see the connection once I pointed it out to her.