3/10/2009 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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BOARD of LIBRARY TRUSTEES V REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING TUESDAY,MARCH 10,2009 TOWN HALL MEETING ROOM Present; David Burton, Carlo D'Este, John Kowalski,Nancy Soderberg, and Helene DeFoe, Library Director. Absent: Heather Lakatos, Dianna Smith, and Jane Dolan. Chairman David Burton called the meeting to order at 6:45 p.m. Approval of Minutes Carlo D'Este motioned to accept the minutes of the Meeting of February 10, 2009 as written; John Kowalski alski seconded this notion; and the motion was unanimously approved. Reports orts Helene DeFoe distributed copies of her monthly report for February, along with the February CLAMS circulation statistics report; listing of downloadable audio checkouts through 2/2812009; and Janet urke's monthly report for February. Copies of all these reports are attached to the printed set of these minutes. The reports were reviewed and discussed. Highlights of the discussion included: • The Trustees expressed them gratitude to Helene for her efforts in working with Barbara Notarius to submit the Cape Cod Youth Empowerment Initiative grant request seeking $20,000. They also expressed their thanks to Helene for all her hard work on the new library building project. • Helene mentioned that when furnishings for the neve library are being recommended, she has already mentioned that they will see the actual pieces being considered and sit in the chairs and at the tables to • be certain they are comfortable and practical, rather than relying on pictures in a catalog. Helene explained the Teen Tech week clone by Janet Burke. The Trustees mentioned seeing this reported in the newspaper and expressed their appreciation for all of Janet urke's accomplishments. Library Building Project Nancy Soderberg reported to the Trustees that she attended the February 24th Planning and Construction Committee meeting. She provided the Trustees with the Project update summary distributed at that meeting by Rich Ponry, fancy said Rick is doing a fantastic job and details everything in his project updates. The Trustees entiorred'how pleased they are to see the construction progress that has been made already. Helene comm rated that the Contractor said the steel frarne will go up quickly and then it will look as though they"re not doing anything but it takes time to let everything settle,tighten all the bolts, etc. Jack Kowalski asked whether or not.consideration should be given to video taping the construction and that would record how the library building progressed. He said maybe someone could do the video at, say, weekly intervals. It was suggested that perhaps sorra of the high school students would be interested in doing the video. Jack Kowalski will contact Arthur Joia, Media Arts Director at the high school.