1/8/2008 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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BOARD of LIBRARY TRUSTEES REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING TUESDAY,JANUARY AR 8, 2008 MA-SIMEE.LARRY MEETING ROOM Present: Carlo D'Este'..Dianna Smith,Nancy Soderberg, .bane Dolan,Heather Lakatos,, ,Ann MacDonald. Dailey (via telephone conference call), and Helene Deoe, Library Director . . Absent: David Burton Audience: Sheldon Gilbert Mice Chairman Nancy Soderberg called the meeting to order at 6:35 p.m. . Aop oval of-Minutes Dianna Smith motioned to accept the minutes of the Meeting of December 11,207 as Witten; Carlo ' t - secondcd this motion; and the notion was unanimou'sly approved. Re is Helene DeFoe submitted her monthly report, as well as the Clams circulation statistics report for December. Janet urke's monthly report for December- as-also provided to the Trustees. All reports were reviewed and-. discussed. The-reports are attached to the printed set of these minutes. Helene informed the Trustees that very possibly the Library could be moving in May. Helene mentioned that Bridget spoke nth her counterpart at the Falmouth Library and-got.some infonnation on what.is entailed in moving the facility. As we expect, it will be quite an-undertaking. Towards that end,the staff here-is continuing to weed out materials and Helene said they took out audio books that had not-moved in several years and added them to-the book sale materials. Last Friends' book sale with the audio books brought in 5684. Helene informed the Trustees that Steve-Cook-told-her that the.dost Office is planning to Mart.construction in May, so our moving thea would be beneficial since we wouldn't want to be next to all the construction. Helene said that at a-Friends' meeting Steve Cook inforned the group that an RFP for temporary space i being prepared. Helene advised the Trustees that last Thursday she received a call from Senator 'Leary's Representative Aide to say that Senator O'Leary had been told the bond bill would be introduced the next day or so and there does not appear to be any opposition. Shelly added that he has seat e-mails to determine whether or not the-bill was actually submitted. When Helene and Shellyreceive updates they will inform the Trustees.