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MASHPEE LIBRARY COMMISSION MINUTES MONDAY, JULY 9 , 1990 PAGE TWO H. DeFoe stated we had a representative from Cape Cod Copier visit the library and asked who did the service on our copier, and what it cost. She will give us a price for a service contract, so that we can have a comparison. Apparently they are doing other depart- ments in town as well. A. Rockwood stated that we have had some discussion of whether we were going to continue to have the copier under our own control or give it to the Friends and have them rent a space to put it in so that the money would not go into the general fund. Ondrea stated that we were going to discuss that issue with Mr. Harrington, but he could not attend our meeting tonight. The mes- sage I received was that he could not make it, and that he would call us . B. Friends of the Library: Gloria Selander reported that in ac- cordance with the statement made at the last meeing, the Friends of the Library meeting would be held on July 24th at 1 :30 p. M. in the meeting room and the new president, Mrs . Alma Barron would pre- side. G. Selander thanked Ann Tanneyhill for handling all of the treasury work and the banking from their July 7th book sale. A. Tanneyhill reported that $175 .25 was taken in on the book sale, the highest the library book sale has ever taken in. G. Selander stated that this was one of our best ways to raise money. C. Oo th Robertson stated that she felt that August would be a god mon , andhatwe weregoingto need morehardcoverbooks . IV . CORRESPONDENCE: None V BUSINESS FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS: Ondrea stated that the only item she had on her list was the collection assessment program. Helene was asked to bring the meeting up to date on this matter. Helene reported that we had 11 sections completed; be still ad 4thrrough the s they ummer. it w working Helene' s pinion deadline wehas been extendedg would be finished by October. A. Rockwood stated that we had previously discussed the perennial dam- pers . The feeling is , if we keep the dampers closed, we will gain relatively little by making them automatic, and it would be difficult and expensive to make them functional. It was his opinion that the system,. as installed, was hopeless . So, we plan to close the dampers , and leave them that way, and do nothing more with the automatic system. Mechanically, it is just not going to work unless it is completely re- placed with a different type of closing device. it was felt that there would not be sufficient return to justify the expense, considering that we would keep the dampers closed all of the time. In this type of build- ing, it was felt that it was unnecessary to bring in a lot of air.