2/1/2007 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Brownie Troop ff 674 visited the library on January 17th. The troop created a time capsule which is being housed at the library. The girls plan to open their time capsule when they are seniors in high school. There were 18 people who had a tour of the library and a story time. I attended the performance Alex the Jester- at the K. C. Coombs School on January 26h. This performance had originally been scheduled for December and I had visited a. every classroom with a"jester story time in preparation for his performance. The show was rescheduled because Alex had an accident in December and was on crutches. The Cape Cod Children's Librarians Roundtable meeting was held on.January 26"' i Sandwich. Vickie Beene-Beavers from SNILS presented ars update on the State-wide Summer Reading Program. This year all sumer reading participants, state--vide, will register on-lira. It is hoped that by having the sumnmer reading on-line, more teens Will participate and that there will be greater participation by people who do not actually visit the library during the summer. Also, it is hoped that this will provide a more accurate count of the summer reading participants. A Cub Scout Troop visited the library on January 29th. The boys were here to try to find the newspaper from the day of their birth. I helped them with the Mashpee Enterprise and then I showed them how to access the Boston dobe ori-line. They also wanted to find folktales and folk heroes. The group of 9 told me they had an interesting afternoon at the library. - The Upper Cape Family Network held a meeting on January 31 t in Bourne. The UCF is the grant project which brings us Rosemary Modic and funding for family programming at the library.