9/12/2006 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Mashpee Public Library P.O. Box 657 l ashpee$ Ma 02649 Circulation for August 2006 was 14,936 items, a year-to-date total of 29,192. Last year was 15,024 items in August, a difference of items. I added 4 items representing dornloadable . Books in *July and August. E book circulation i counted by the Net Library software rather than going through CLAMS Miflenniurn, and mu -be added to-CL IVIS-ciir ulation figures. Cape-wide, 682 E Books were downloaded. Falmouth is thus far the heaviest user with Bo titles downloaded during the summer. I expect our usage to grog as more patrons become aware of the subscription. I used a figure of per title as a comparison to see how we are doing on our investment. - Purchasing these 14 titles gourd have been $1,120 of the $2,196 we spent on the subscription. We will break even once 28 titles have been downloaded. It is interesting to note that although August's circulation exceeded July's by over bog items, vire didn't. have the extreme spikes of 1,000 items days as we did in July. The daily totals were typically 500 to Ego items with a few days',of 700 or Boo items per day. The combined totals circulated in July and August is roughly 25% of the anticipated yearly circulation. Doing that amount of -business over two months is exhausting anti stressful and the staff is to be commended for the manner in which they served the public this summer. I sent Susan cannavo to SBMLS for training on the use of a library website, Illy Own oaf . It"s a website for teens and we hope to publicize it and have local teen register to use it. We e have identified teens-as an underserved group in our Long Range Pian. Services for them will be greatly improved in a new building but in the meantime, we hope to encourage more young adults to start using the library's resources. I arra working on completing the Annual Financial Report to the IIBLC. It is due October 2e but I hope to mail it by the end of September. The library's annual state aide is based on the Wmpletion of these two reportswhich-verifies the library has met minimum m library standards and is eligible for certification. During the summer, Janet Burke spoke to David and nne about easing into her summer schedule because of personal commitments. David asked ed e to see if I could accomodate her request. Bridget was interested in working more hours and pieced up many of the hours Janet didn't work. Janet and I increased her scheddle last week to 32 hours per.week which is still less than 37.5 hours budgeted. Bridget is still interested in working more hours so I will have her work the balance. This seems like a reasonable compromise that benefits two excellent employees.