6/14/2011 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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- - CONCL SI N:The Trustees were unanimously in favor that Jane Dolan should explore fee structure further - -and the natter revisited at next Trustee meeting. Jane asked Kathy if she would contact Joyce Mason and Kathy said she will do so. Children's Librarian Report Copies e ort Copies of Janet Burke's monthly report for May and the Children's Sumner Events Program were distributed to the Trustees. Copies are attached to the pried set of these minutes. Kathy advised that a lot of the summer program is being funded by the grant Janet Burke and Kathy applied for. They received the$3,000 grant. Kathy said the Mate ended up with 1,500 surplus in f`mding,and decided to award the remaining money to Mashpee in recognition of our work. Staffing Update 0 Kathy said a week before she started she met with Joyce Mason and Marilyn Farren to talk about upcoming positions and how to staff the library. We're corning to end of contract workers. 0 Talked about options and talked about vision of library and how to go forward with staffing. 0 Kathy said for upstairs position hiring of a 19-hour per week reference librarian doesn't afford much of the coverage needed. Kathy said she worked at the Reference desk and that she and Bridget acknowledge that much of the work upstairs is helping patrons logon to computers and with their copying and printing needs...doesn't have to be a reference librarian person to do this. Kathy commented that for the Children's area,Janet Burke is the librarian and 2 assistants are in there to staff her desk. Kathy would like to do the same type of thing upstairs that is, 2 assistants to handle the desk, i