8/17/2009 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Mashpee Public library P 0 Box 657 Mashpee MA Circulation in July was 14,264 items, compared with last 3uly's circulation of 13,283. July is the first month of the fiscal year but comparing transaction to ]line 49 shows the in increase in volume the library experiences during the peak months of July and August. June 09 circulation was 10,997; a difference of 3,267 more transactions in a month. We also registered 152 new patrons for library cards compered to the 60 or so we register in anon-summer month. I am currency working on the state required ARTS report. It is due the end of August and I'm testing a new online form this year. i stili need a signed cover sheet which gets mailed in after I've submitted the online application. Here area few highlights from my report: 4, Collection size — 24,524 Adult/Young Adult items; 10,678 Children's items; combined collection size is 35,202 46. Circulation - 89,102 Adult/Young Adult items; 29,375 Children's items; combined total is 118, 477 tiV Registered library card holders - 9,858 A6 Children's Programs - 220 programs; 61532 attendance 4 Website Hits - 43,166 The overall size of the collection grew by 2,166 items. Over 7,000 items were placed in deep storage prior to the move so those items were not available to circulate this year. Overall circulation was down 5% over the previous fiscal year. Factors influencing that were that we moved to a new location, had 20% of the collection in storage and had served many Falmouth patrons in FY 2008 while Falmouth closed for their construction project. Once Falmouth Library reopened in FY 2009, most of their patrons resumed using their home-library. The number of Children's Programs offered was virtually the same but the attendance declined by 1,793 participants. We have no meeting room in the temporary library so we had to pre-register story times and set attendance limits. We held large programs at Christ the IGng Church or outside in the courtyard. We opted not to hold some types of programs that would attract more people than we could accommodate. The location definitely impacted the type and size programs we could offer. Patron registration numbers declined by 870 this year. We actually added many patrons but CLAMS did a purge of patrons with expired cards that hadn't been used in three years. Doing a purge tends to remove transient people that have moved from the area and it makes a cleaner, more compact database,.