10/17/2006 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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rye 4 holiday pay. The other day under discussion is the day after Thanksgiving. The clerical union staff and PAP employees receive a holiday because of their union contract. out of six library staff, four will be on holiday. I bring this up because it will be difficult to staff the library that day with just Lauren and me. I would like to discuss this matter at the meeting. The library is staffed and open on Saturday. I have had several conversations and emails with L.ili Seely, a grant writer who is working on foundation grants for the friends, underwritten by ToriO'Neill. I have provided documentation to her on several subjects and ret with her at the library on October 14 t". She expects to send the first application off this week and has several others in mind for the near future. I was impressed with her thoroughness and have high hopes that she will have success with her applications. f After the State Aid workshop, I visited the Mattapoiset Public Library. Judy Wallace, the former director of Brooks Free Library, invited me to see their construction project. They are temporarily housed in a school building. I would like to visit there again with Bridget and Janet Burke to see how they have organized their space. I will also speak to staff in Falmouth once they have completed their rove to temporary space. I think we can benefit from the advice of both groups. toured the new Larusso Technology Building at CCCC. They have built a green building: using new technology. Michael Gross, Public Relations Director for the college, answered a number of questions I had about the building. I passed on information about it to Shelly Gilbert and suggested he mention it to the Planning and Construction committee. There were a number of low cost energy savings features to the building that any project might adapt to decrease utility cost. You will note on Janet's report that she talks about her meeting with the new librarian at Mashpee high School. We have never had much connection with the High School so we are particularly excited at establishing a- connection there. Goal 5 on our Long Lange Flan talks about establishing a closer relationship with the'schools. Goal 4 talks about increasing services to teen users. Staff at the High School can be very useful in getting the message to teem that we have items of interest for therm at the public library. Janet has put a display about Teem Read Week in the front display case and is conducting a raffle for teens who visit the library this week. Kari L.aPoint, the High School Librarian, is displaying some posters about our activities.