9/8/2009 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Date: September 1, 2009 To; Helene B. DeFoe From: Janet Burke Re: Monthly Report The statewide'summer reading program, "Starship Adventure at Your Library"' concluded during the month of August. This year 219 children registered at the library to participate. Children committed to read 20 minutes per day for at least 5 days a week and recorded their time on a reading log. They brought their logs into the library to receive small r" a for their reading effort end-for visiting the library. The final prize was coupon for a firee lee cream cone from Polar Cave Ice Crean Parlor. This is the third . year that Mark Lawrence from Polar Cave has generously sponsored our summer reading program,. Again this summer,the Mashpee Public Library is participating in the Statewide Online Sumner Readingprogram. have set up three pros nhne-. one for Kids, one for Teens and one for Adults. We have 15 children registered online, down from 52 last summer, I believe the decline is due to the fact that I was unable to make school visits. this year and personally explain the online program o students. However, we have an increase m teen participation. We have 5 tees registered thus-year, compared to 2 teens last summer—a % increase! I attribute the teen'particip ti n to cord of mouth advertising in the library. The Upper Ca a 'amily Network,the grant which brought us Mss osemary, has suffered severe budget cuts. They are no longer able to employ Rosemary. I have been running Toddle Time this summer, and the Mashpee Community Partnership Council has agreed to include Rosemary in their grant for September. The participation for Toddle Time i as follows. y August 3 rd 'Toddle Time 20 August I CP Toddle Time 2 As art.of the Sumner Reading Program, have offered a meekly Trivia Contest. The vanner each week receives a"Starship Adventure at Your Library' T-shirt. We have had the following participation for the Trivia:Contest: August I st 16 Entries August e 6 Entries August 15th 16 Entries Maria Cortez a library patron who-moved to 1 Whpee from Chile three years ago, has been working with me to pirwide a Bilingual Storer Time for school age children, While i read stones in English, Maria reads the stones in Spanish, The final Bilingual Story Time this summer was held on August and attended by 1 participants.