3/8/2007 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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i y f Mashpee Public Library P.O. Box 657 Mashpee, Ma 02649 circulation for February 2007 was 9,876 items. This month's circulation exceeded last February's by 217 items. Our year-to-date total of 91,919 items continues to run % ahead of the same point last year. I arra continuing to concentrate on Breeding the non-fiction collection. It is looking much more hopeful that we will be in temporary quarters net year and I want to avoid putting obsolete items into long term storage. Recent positive steps from the town about the library construction project have given hope to the staff that we will actually begin the construction phase in a year or so. We want to take advantage of this lead time to streamline the collection and reduce the cost of storage for items that are better weeded from the collection. The Legislative Breakfast was well attended by Mashpee Trustees, Friends and staff. Two of the speakers were representing Mashpee (Carlo D'Este and Danny Burke) and they did us proud. I received a number of compliments on well spoken they were in sharing their experiences in how the library had made a difference in their lures. Rob Maier, Executive Director, of the IILC addressed the group. He said that discussions with Governor Patrick were positive and that Patrick , felt the library -community would be pleased with his budget recommendations. I attended a Wellness Seminar later that day. It was sponsored by the Cape Cod Municipal Health Group and was intended for managers who could bring information on wellness topics back to their staffs. They had sessions on eating healthy, stress reduction, yoga meditation and women's health issues. This was one of a seris of presentations by the health group. Since the towns are self insured, it benefits everyone to keep staffs healthy by stressing life style changes. Healthy employees are more productive and less apt to need sick time. Cater in the meeting, we will be discussing staff development through attendance at the Cape Cod and Islands Library Association Spring Conference. It is devoted to library technology and is being held at Cape Cod Community College. It is a great opportunity to expose the staff to technology issues that directly affect.them and the library's patrons. I think their attendance at this conference would be very worthwhile.