7/10/2012 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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l lashpee Public Library July 10, 2012- Board of Trustees Meeting Director's Deport Circulation figures for the month of-June 2012 have been posted by the CLAMS system. For the month of June our total circulation transactions totaled 15,789;which represent a considerable increase from the 13,059 total transaction's posted in the month of May 2012. This is also ars increase ovQr the, 15,047 total transactions posted for the month of June 201 1,.or the'1.2,966 posted in June 2010. Circulation figures for eBooks checked out by Mashpe.patrons in the month f Jure ere reported as 746, The yearend total circulation for eBooks was 6574. Currently, 932 Mashpe patrons have registered for accounts to check out eBooks. Overall our FY 12 year end circulation total (which does not include Books , vias 17"0,1 1, which was a slight decline from the 172, 258 posted for FY 11. During the month of June w added 666 new items to the collection,which was the result of a strong effort by staff to increase the n rribe�r of items available. (In May, 277 items were added, while mother 424 items ere added in April.) .OTHER ACTIVITY On June 139 I attended the CLAMS Library Director's meeting at Cape Cod Community College. The CLAMS consortium welcomed three Martha's vineyard libraries as new members: A juin ah, Chilmark, and West Tisbury. This might reduce the cost of membership fees slightly,but since the new members are relatively small libraries, there may not be a significant cost savings. A good deal of time was spent discussing the purchase of digital i resources for-the membership. The state recently cut funding which covered the cost of ars online subscn* tion to the Cape Cod Times online for all member libraries. If the consortium purchases this resource for all members,the cost for Mashpee will be approximately $75041100 per year in addition to membership fees. This will be discussed and deliberated at the August meeti