03/11/2024 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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There is a core group of patrons who rely on self-checkout. Physical circulation is up to 136,000 while eBook circulation is 4,000 a month. A nice feature about Overdrive is it also includes magazines. However, print is in sad shape. In Adult Services they removed 2,500 titles out of adult fiction collection. They run reports that look at titles that have not circulated in three years. They see if the book is worth keeping if it is a classic, or sometimes it was a replacement copy, or maybe a book is damaged. On town cleanup day the staff went through the music CDs. We are going to get hoopla, Boston Public Library has it. Hoopla has eBooks, movies, music, magazines, etc. You access through an e- library card through BPL and register for Hoopla. You can borrow up to 10 titles a month. We will look at pricing. You can set it up to not exceed say $2000/mo. You can also cap the number of checkouts and see how much it costs doing it that way. If we are not going to be doing music and spending money on CD’s, this is the way to get music and quicker. The goal is to get it by April for the library’s birthday. Ms. Nickerson inquired about a tutorial session. Ms. Mahoney noted they could have staff do drop-in hours or schedule private sessions. It’s hard to do a session because everyone is at a different place, pace, and using different devices. A tutorial would be helpful so people can watch it. Collections will be moved around; fiction will be moved to where the audio books were. Groups of books will be kept in one place, like Harlan Coban and James Patterson. The Library of Things like puzzles, DVD, and CD players are being cataloged. The Mass Memories Road Show was slated to take place right before Covid, and they got shut down. It did not get back up for a while and then they were back logged two years. They cannot find the Mashpee materials, we had a date set and everything, there is no copy of the application. They are making Book Club kits. Adult programming is being worked on. There was a concert in February, Peking and the Mystics, a group of four men singing acapella, and people loved it. Jane Scarborough will be here in April and they will be having an advanced sewing class. There , was a legislative event on January 262024, Julian Cyr was sponsoring a Bill to protect the libraries during ban on books. The stained-glass of the Town Seal by Meredith Harris is hanging outside the Children’s Room in the Lobby. There was discussion about holding a reception so the Cultural Council can come and she would really like to tell the story. There were problems with the ventilation system in January. It is back in working order now. Proactive measures were taken to repair a part that was broken. 3