10/17/2006 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Mer my visit to the classrooms, the' first grade teachers schedule a walking field trip to . s •� the library. Mrs. T'essici r s class visited the library on September 22'd. There were 21 children who had a tour of the library, listened to stories and checked out a book. On September 1 ' 1 met with Kari LaPointe who is the new librarian at the Mashpee High School. She gave me a tour of the library and we discussed possible collaborative efforts. I explained the advantages of Novelist and how to access this data base with a M shpee CLAIMS card. I gave her a handout explaining Novelist-which I had created, - rid she planned to share this with all of the high school teachers at the next staff meeting. I also explained our Teacher Card policy and provided letters to all of the teachers which Kari planned to distribute for me. I'm so happy to have met ars enthusiastic connection at the high school. attended the Children's Librarians Roundtable Meeting in Yarmouthport on September 18'h. Vickie Beene-Beavers from SLI I1_S was on hard to explain DOPA(Deleting Online Predators Act). School Library Journal suras up this l gis.tration: "If passed into law,, DOPA will require schools and libraries receiving a-rate funding to block access to social networking sites life MySpace and Friendster, chat rooms, and perhaps hlogs. i Opponents, who include much of the library community, support the l gistra ion's overall intent to protect children from online predators, of course, but criticize the hill as overbroad vague, and ineffective."' we also discussed our upcoming 15 th Annual Family Library Event to be held in November, and each library shared the highlights of their summer reading programs. � sp The M ee h Community 1 a.rtn rshil Council held meeting on September 19P. This . grant project brings together early childhood educators, family day care providers, school .embers and community members. The CPC supports-the library with passes to the Children's Museum and a family programming evert. On September 26thl attended the MUNIS training workshop at Town Hall.